Recently, a CPA, a banker, and a mergers and acquisitions specialist worked together to hold a seminar for individuals who want to turn a business idea into a startup. They had a great turnout and the M&A expert continued to meet with 4-6 highly qualified leads. Who
Read more →Peter’s boss had quite a reputation of being hard to please. Peter’s co-worker, Molly, had just been yelled at and was developing a fear of him. She was assigned to develop a presentation for him and was scared. Peter learned about motor imagery a few days before
Read more →If you have an hourly business model, ask yourself how you can sell more hours. I just spoke to a group that spent only 30 – 40 percent of their time on billable work for clients. The rest of their time was spent on admin and marketing.
Read more →It really did happen when I was flying around the world in 1995. The small airplane engine stopped while we were over the 50-degree waters of the Atlantic Ocean, 1,000 miles from any land. Silence. Nothing. My heart started racing so fast, and for a split second
Read more →A few years ago, I had the pleasure of sailing into the Yokohama harbor at daybreak. The British cruise ship I was on was greeted with much fanfare by the harbor police boat, two fire boats that sprayed six water jet streams each a hundred feet into
Read more →A great theme for 2010 is to get good at the basics and forget all of the frilly attention-catching fads out there. I believe the people who are going to do well this year are the ones who are working on focus and clarity, whether they’re running
Read more →One Tip That Saves Me Hours a Week One thing that happens on my computer is I tend to check my email too often. It’s almost addictive. (And if you’ve been on Twitter, that’s even worse.) Do any of you do that? (Or maybe, worse, you have
Read more →Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, to name a few — should be considered additional marketing channels – no more, no less. There are other marketing methods that are cheaper – referrals, to name one. So my first tip is to add social media to your
Read more →A great theme for 2010 is to get good at the basics and forget all of the frilly attention-catching fads out there. I believe the people who are going to do well this year are the ones who are working on focus and clarity, whether they’re running
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