Ever wanted to create your own holistic hub or event center for cool things? My pal Rob Helmer (pictured here with his daughter) did it in Toronto with his Inner Garden space and shares his lessons, thoughts and success secrets here. * What is the inner garden? Basically, it’s a beautiful space in the heart […]
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You might have alreadry met my friend Carrie Klassen (pictured here). She’s released her very first product I want to tell you about. A while ago, I released my first product. It’s all about a simple thing you can do to your homepage which can have way more people opting in to be on your
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Vicki Robin (radiantly pictured here) is one of the most brilliant women I know. I was recently reminded of a brilliant article she wrote all about the increasing dynamic of plagiarism online and how we respond to it. As Your Money or Your Life hits the bookstores and nearly the top 100 bestseller list on
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A few months ago, I attended the Spiritual Marketing Quest. It’s one of the best marketing workshops I’ve ever been to – as this story will attest to. At a certain point, a woman named Holly Tse (pictured below) stood up and shared an idea that gave everyone goosebumps. It was a project idea that
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I’ve been blogging a lot about point of view (which is helping me sort out my own point of view on it) and I thought it might be nice to take all of it and boil it down a bit into some simple steps on how you can really focus your own point of view.
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When I do my workshops, I often get people to brainstorm the types of content they might use to stay in touch with the people on their lists. And people come up with great ones. So, here’s the harvest from my past few workshops. I hope it inspires you with ideas. Notice how many of
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These are all human eyes. Each one looks so different (you can find more here) But that’s not the extraordinary thing. The extraordinary thing is that each one looks at different things. From different angles. Each one sees the world in a different way. Just the other day I had a 75 minute skype video
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I’ll be honest. The whole notion of personal branding can be really gross. All too often, I see people making themselves more plastic, more slick, more generic in order to ‘brand’ themselves. Their hair becomes perfect and so do their clothes. And to me it so misses the point. It’s branding – but it’s actually
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Edmonton lost one of it’s quiet Titan’s today. An invisible giant. Bob Ward (pictured here), the head of Edmonton’s Social Enterprise Fund, passed away the other night. I just heard and am not sure on all the details. I am so sad. Gone too soon. I don’t even know how old he was. In his
I met Kyle McNeil a few years back through various entrepreneurship circles. He invited me to connect a few times but I was so busy and didn’t know him well enough to prioritize things. And then we ended up attending a weekend workshop together and had a three hour drive of bro time back to
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