I want to share something that might forever change the way you relate to marketing. It’s a notion I got from Mark Manson in the context of dating but I think it maps over perfectly into marketing. There are only three types of potential clients you will ever experience: responsive, neutral and unresponsive. Responsive people […]
In my last post, I spoke about what it means to have a message in your business. The core idea of that post? Don’t market yourself, market your message. In this post, I want to lay out eight reasons I think it’s increasingly vital. REASON #1: Speaking about your message is more comfortable and inspiring
Don’t market yourself, market your message. This is the theme I want to explore in what promises to an epic post. I’ve been wanting to write this post for at least half a year and have been slowly collecting ideas and inspirations for it. At this point, I need to put out what I’ve got
How would you like it if clients loved you so much they drove three or four hours to see you? They will if it feels like it’s a fit. I just got this note from a client of mine, Tim Emerson. And it reminded me of the importance of the slow marketing approach and how
Bryan Welsh is likely not someone you’ve heard of. But if you’ve ever read Mother Earth News, Utne, Natural Home & Garden, The Herb Companion, Grit or The Farm Collector – then you’ve read one of the magazines his company Ogden Publications owns. And, last night, I had the pleasure of seeing him speak at
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I just got an email from a participant of my Spring 2012 workshop in the UK. She wanted to send me money. I had completely forgotten about this. At the weekend workshop, which I run on a Pay What You Can basis she’d told me, “I’ll be in the United States in the summer. Can
Some wise words from my dear friend Alex Baisley (pictured here) about how sometimes our deepest wounds can be our truest niche and how important and overlooked our point of view is for our businesses. He’s leading 16 entrepreneurs through his Doin’ Your Own Thing Income Figure Outer program coming up soon. Alex is one
I’m in Vancouver sitting at yet another favourite hang out spot here – Eternal Abundance (full of raw vegan goodness, comfy chairs, high ceilings and lots of natural light). I love places like this. I just finished my weekend workshop in Vancouver (and Victoria the weekend before that). You can see photos here. And something
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
I invite you to give up trying to change people’s minds. People can be a lot like this child – stubborn. They don’t like being pushed around. Or told they’re wrong. This is the core challenge of marketing I think. Or a core blunder. Or something. Trying to convince people that we are right and