I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting on my couch in my 2-bedroom bungalow about a month after I escaped the Dilbert Cube.
I had a rickety but exciting brand new business, I had mostly replaced my income, the world was before me and I was thrilled.
AND I WAS SCARED.
It was a cool evening in the fall,
The national news does not make my top 20 list of worthwhile things. And it certainly should not be in your top 10.
NEVER start or end your day with news.
Bert Gulick once said,
Consulting is like Monopoly: The more squares you own on the board, the more exponentially profitable your business can be.
At this 4-Man Intensive, an independent marketing consultant asked me a question. I drew him a picture of a tactical Power Triangle, like this:
VIDEO: Perry shares the importance of making deposits into your readers’ “emotional bank account” when selling via email and auto-responders.
My friend and colleague Bob Regnerus, marketing strategist and book publisher, posted this today. I betcha you’ll relate to it somehow:
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I’ve battled all my life (from early elementary school all the way into my 40’s) with inferiority.
VIDEO: Perry explains how to effectively build relationships with customers via email.
I just came home from a week in Ireland, taking a much-needed rest. This morning I was recalling a 7+ year span where we took no vacation at all, save for occasional visits to stay with family.
That lonely road is so often part of the entrepreneurial journey. It’s part of being… a wolverine.
Poodles get their food and water bowl filled every day. They sleep on the couch, watch Seinfeld reruns with the kids. Their owners take them for trots down the sidewalk.
Wolverines live in the woods, brave ice and snow, mark out large territories, sleep in the wild, eat what they kill.
Poodles live in cubicles.
Wolverines live free.
Most people in marketing don’t really know what “marketing” really is, do you? Marketing legend Drayton Bird had this to say about it.
5 Key Takeaways from Ecommerce success story Coffee.org:
1. In 2009, Bill got Google slapped. It happened because…
I almost put my fist through the ceiling when I heard this. Today, a 13 minute clip from Ian Carroll – “How Can You Succeed, Let Alone Help Anybody Else, If You Hate Yourself?” There is a false, insidious belief that has crept into Christian belief that we are all ‘worms’ and God just sort of puts up with us. … Read More
