I just spoke at the annual Natural Health Practitioners of Canada Conference in Edmonton as one of their opening day keynotes about marketing. After my talk, I moved to the back of the room to organize a few things while the next speaker went up to speak about the ethical issue of ‘consent’ in the world of […]
As I get ready for my next Point of View Lab, I’ve been reflecting on some recent examples I’ve been uncovering with clients. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a lot of people around their point of view and I keep being amazed at the power that this has in our marketing. Whereas
I hosted a men’s circle earlier this year and a young man said something brilliant: be a flower, not a butterfly net. It reminds me of something I heard colleagues say for years: be a lighthouse, not a searchlight. Butterflies run away from nets. People run away from searchlights. Of course, it’s dangerous to
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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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
Clarity is everything in marketing. A while ago I wrote a blog post about the importance of developing a clear platform. Your platform is what you’re known for. It’s another way of talking about ‘brand‘. It’s the heart of slow marketing (but also the basis of fast marketing). The challenge that I lay out in
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
The other day I wrote a post about why point of view mattered (and even gave a bunch of questions you can ask to hone in on yours) so much in marketing and I gave a few examples. But I thought a few more might help really drive home how pervasive and effective a clear