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Ever felt like you’re just spinning your wheels?

I can remember pitching the Amway program 118 times in a row without a single sign up. Brutal.

A couple of weeks ago when Robin Williams passed I posted an article on Facebook. The article explained how Williams insisted, in his contracts or “riders”, that the film production companies he worked for hire a certain number of homeless people. It was the most viral posting I’ve ever made. Nearly half a million likes and thousands upon thousands of … Read More

“People don’t really need art, music, literature, newspapers, historians, wheels, calendars, philosophy…all people need is a cave, a piece of meat, and possibly, a fire.” -Pat Steel, Young & Rubicam, from Rosser Reeves’ Reality in Advertising

“Years ago I learned a very cool thing about Robin Williams, and I couldn’t watch a movie of his afterward without thinking of it. I never actually booked Robin Williams for an event, but I came close enough that his office sent over his rider. For those outside of the entertainment industry, a rider lists out an artist’s specific personal … Read More

I am sad to report one of the true geniuses in the marketing business has left us and gone to his reward.

Mike is the smartest Search Engine Optimization guy I personally ever met. Mike came to my Roundtable group a couple of years ago and blew our minds.

Last Monday I was about as far away from home as I could possibly get. I was in Rajahmundry India. Which is about an hour from the Bay of Bengal in the southeast part of the country. To get to Chicago from Rajahmundry, you take a 2:30pm flight to Hyderabad. Then you catch the 9pm flight from Hyderabad to Delhi. … Read More

Most of us entrepreneurs rush from task to task, fire to fire, crises to crises, project to project. I’m guilty too.

And when something good happens…when we finally GET what we’ve been working for…we land a big client or we pull off a great product launch or we hit a revenue goal or whatever…we just kinda mumble and move on to the next thing.

That must stop.

Do you feel conflict between spiritual values and financial success?

If it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, why aren’t we all sitting in sackcloth and ashes, living as poor monks who eke out a living on one meal a day?

My friend, John, used to sell photocopiers back in the 90s. Downtown Chicago. A good introduction to sales, but kinda brutal, occasionally stupid, and almost always a waste of time…

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