My colleague and mentor, Robert Middleton talks about how marketing is like baseball. It’s like baseball in a few ways . . . First of all, you can have all the right baseball equipment and just be terrible at the game – if no one has ever taught you how to play, the rules of […]
Years ago – I did a survey of my clients and invited them to share their Holistic Practitioner Horror Stories. I got quite a few – and there were four patterns that showed up. Trait #1 – Arrogance Symptoms: The practitioner acts as if they have found “the answer to all things”. They treat clients
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I want to talk about shame and marketing. I’ve got a cough. I’ve had it for about four years. It comes and goes – but mostly it comes. The truth is that I’m sick of it. I’ve seen a naturopath, an herbalist and am working out whatever emotional causes there might be. And when you
So, I think parties are one of the best marketing tools ever. I’ve been talking about it more and more – and here’s some proof! This is an excerpt from an interview I did with Joel Monk (JM) and Laurens van Aarle (LV) of Coaches Rising in Amsterdam. I think you’ll dig it. JM: So
If you’re like me – you hate hype. You hate slick anything. You hate pressure and pushing. And yet – you’ve got something valuable to offer. This is the quandry of many a hippie in business. The need to market – and yet the shame surrounding the marketing. Here’s a provocative question that Thomas Leonard
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One of the things I learned most from Thomas Leonard was the idea of endorsing your own worst weakness. It’s a bit of what he’d call ‘tricky wisdom’. Can you take the thing that you’re most embarrassed and ashamed of in your business (and maybe life) and turn it into a strength, an assett and
Thomas Leonard is a bit of a hero of mine. We spoke a number of times over the phone and shared a passion for the Dave Matthews Band. His book The 28 Laws of Attraction remains one of the best books I’ve ever read. Half of the people to whom I lend it have a
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Introduction: myths and assumptions Let’s get started. This is my belief: most practitioners fail not because it’s inevitable, but because they believe certain myths about building their practice. They are like lenses or filters they look through that colour everything. When I say ‘myth’ I mean the assumptions that most practitioners operate under about what
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Everyone has a shell. Some protective mechanisms to keep them out of pain. And, when you begin a conversation around new and better possibilities for people, it brings them face-to-face with their current reality. It brings them face-to-face with the quality of life that they are currently settling for. Most people know that more is
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People have had rotten experiences with other businesses in your industry. You can’t just say, “We do it different.” So, here’s the question: What are the policies, the procedures, processes and the standards that your business holds that ensure your are different? Just one quick example on this, which I just thought of now and