So many people are scared of getting rejected in business. I get it. But the fear of rejection comes from the idea that there’s a way to move through this world without being rejected which isn’t true. What’s really going on in those cases is that the people have figured out only how to delay […]
I want to offer up the opportunity to participate in a bold experiment. It’s going to ask you to be vulnerable and honest. It’s going to ask you to use a tool that not many people even think of as a tool (indeed, I didn’t until a few days ago when a number of things
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This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for years. Fairly often, in workshops, the question (and it’s a very good one) comes up: “What if I can’t guarantee a result?” That question usually emerges from the shiny palace of conversations about creating guarantees, and better than risk free guarantees, doing clever and
Business is like a staircase which it’s best not to skip any steps. One of the things that can put us squarely and repeatedly into what I call The Meantime is not understanding what stage of business we are at (or even that there are different stages of business). A classic blunder is for people to
by Rebecca Tracey of The Uncaged Life This blog post is about the three big mistakes you might be making with your packages. Of course, this assumes you know what I mean by the word ‘package’ and, if you do, that you are currently offering packages. But let’s start with this… Since I started my
This is one of those things that is actually very important to get about marketing that I talk about really seldomly but should probably talk about more. When people are working on their marketing, I think that, often, they don’t really understand the role that their marketing needs to play. Or I should say ‘roles’
My dear colleague in the UK Corrina Gordon-Barnes (pictured right) just wrote a brilliant, brilliant blog post about the whole question of ‘what to call yourself’. It’s a vital issue because what you choose to call yourself will have a direct impact on how memorable it is or isn’t and how easy it is to
Mike Rowlands, a Vancouver based marketing and branding expert is asking a group of thirty positive change makers one of the hardest questions they’ve ever been asked. He’s a very fun fellow but the question is serious. “If you closed up shop tomorrow, who would miss you? And why?” We’re all sitting in a circle
Three months ago, I wrote a blog post called Slow Marketing. It was all about how it’s okay (even important) to slow down our marketing. This is a wonderful philosophy but what if you need money yesterday? What if you’re so broke and you can’t afford rent? All of a sudden, the slow approach while
At some point last year, it became clear to me that there are three main things most entrepreneurs need to have handled in order to thrive. They overlap each other like circles in a Venn Diagram. And I realize now that I’d never written about them explicitly. So, here we are. First, there’s a seven