A few months back I met a lady named Chris Kay Fraser. She was working on a project that I thought was pretty amazing and I blogged about it (click here to read it). Once it was done, I asked her some questions about the contest from the business and marketing side. What she did […]
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One of the most brilliant and beautiful minds in conscious marketing today is Suzanne Falter-Barns. A lot of people ‘talk’ about spiritual marketing – but it’s often from a ‘how do you USE ‘the secret’ to draw in more clients’ and Suzanne’s approach feels so much cleaner, clearer grounding and uplifting to me. I commend
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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
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Tiina Veer is a client of mine who’s an amazing example of the power of proper niching in action. Instead of trying to make her yoga class appeal to everyone – she chose a very particular niche. People who don’t look like Barbie Dolls. There’s a whole community of people with ’round bodies’ who might
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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
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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
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Regarding your business headshot, here are three possible scenarios: SCENARIO #1: No Photo. This is terrible. Reading a bio without a photo feels hollow. They get no sense of you as a ‘person’. You will seem abstract. SCENARIO #2: A Bad Photo. This might even be worse. I can’t tell you how many ads I’ve
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Let me give you some before and after examples of good and bad photos with explanations from my pal and genius photographer in Toronto, Donna Santos. To the right is an example of a great photo. It’s of my friend Ingrid Crynz. This is how good you want your photo to be. To the left
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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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