“The government needs to take stricter measures and pass more laws.”
“We need to invest more in mental health.”
“We need to start cracking down on thugs – hard.”
“This kind of stuff NEVER happened when I was a kid.”
I’m not interested in very many of these questions, or arguing about what band-aids are most appropriate. Not today anyway.
What I’m interested in today is:
I interviewed banker Chris Hurn about building long-term equity. This is easier in some businesses than others. If you’re in manufacturing or software development that might be easier than a service, consulting or publishing business.
In this interview we discuss quietly building equity in the same commercial real estate that your business inhabits.
When you were a teenager, did you ever feel like this?
MarketingCharts.com issued a great survey. They looked at TV, print, social, SEO, PPC, email and more. Business-to-Business marketers’ reported quantity and quantity of leads.
Top of list:
One year ago today was “Gotcha! Day.” On December 4 2011, we met Zoe in Nanchang, China. Recently one of my customers Deb Gallardo (who I’d never met or spoken to) contacted us and said she’d felt inspired to write a song.
Yesterday I said I’ve got 1000 books; I’ve skimmed most, read 200 in full and read a few 5 times. Someone asked – which ones have you read 5 times?
A lot of people feel GUILTY. All the time.
Why?
Because they have all these courses, books and training, and have gone to a bunch of seminars and haven’t hardly implemented any of it.
Guilt. Blame. Self condemnation.
Well, if you’ve done NONE of it, you *should* feel guilty, and get your hind end in gear.
But if you’re like most successful people, you’ve…
The ever-insightful Nick Neilson posted this comment on my blog: You won’t catch me trying to work out my “real problems” on facebook. Why? Because nobody knows… nobody knows my sorrows. I search and solve in private. Everybody knows the discomfort of somebody actually posting something vulnerable on facebook – “This is a party man… don’t start your sob story … Read More
If you’re Gettin’ Stuff Done today while your spouse hits the malls on Black Friday….
It’s YOUR turn to go shopping. I almost never put stuff “on sale” but I am today!
Purchase any of the following….
It was exactly 15 years ago this week that my boss Wally called me into his office and fired me. It had been two years of “Perry is a sales guy just waiting to happen.” Wally waited. And waited. And waited. Eventually push came to shove. Two days later a company I’d interviewed at, hired me, and I managed to … Read More
