Three Reasons Why You Can’t Enroll Clients at Networking Events
The air conditioner, and the ice water, is way too cold for 8 a.m. The napkins and table cloth are a little too white and crisp, as hotels tend to be. You’re at this awkward business networking meeting, and many other people in business casual attire are trying to look casual and at-ease. Strangely enough, […]
Have You Grown Into Your Business Yet?
I want to share with you a challenging, “what’s wrong with you?” email someone sent to me recently. Don’t worry, I’ve removed anything that could identify them. Dear Mark, I’ve been following your writings for a year now. As I’ve said a few times in response, your guidance has been an inspiration and a number […]
The Perfect Storm of Projects
We had the perfect storm this past week. Three major creative projects with the exact same deadlines showed up. Project #1: Opening the Moneyflow The January to June course ended in June of all months (who’d-a-thunk?), and so the next program started this week. Because we have systems and a team in place, I wasn’t […]
Is It The Devil, or Do You Just Need a Nap?
“I’m so ashamed, so guilty, I almost don’t want to even ask you this. But I keep falling asleep during Remembrance.” Last Thursday I led another one of our once every two months Virtual Retreats, and during one of the Q&A calls, and that was the question one of the retreatants posed me. Recently a […]
How to Finish Your Content
Looking out at all the blogs, magazines, and newsletters I read, it’s easy to believe the world is brimming with content. However, the untold story is the unfinished work. Often, as our clients take on the idea of creating content to help promote their business, they get started on articles, and never finish. Maybe they […]
Three Priorities for Your Effective Heart-Centered Website
I’ve had the occasion to see a LOT of websites over the years, as well as going through three or four different versions of our own, plus a new redesign we’re in the middle of now. Back in 2001 I first launched heartofbusiness.com when it was all hard-coded html, and now with the fancy bells […]
No-Cost Call: Three Plus Heart Power
Wednesday, June 8, 1 p.m. no cost teleclass on the Three Starting Points for Heart-Centered Visionary Business Owners, plus Heart Power. Some years ago my wife Holly and I were struggling to get healthy with our communication. Which is a polite way to say that we sometimes argued, and sometimes I just caved in, and […]
What Your Business Needs From Your Mistakes
This past week Susan, my assistant, let me know that several of our DIY Opening the Moneyflow participants were wondering where the audio was from our last Q&A call. Hmmm…. What did happen? I did the call. I uploaded the audio… and that’s all I did. I didn’t let Susan know the audio had been […]
Going for the Easy Win
We’re in the middle of a big ambitious goal: a website redesign, including a major update of our look, and launch by July 1. It’s going to take a lot of focus and effort from the team, and I’ve been doing my part, too- rewriting outdated copy, thinking through the vision, etc, etc. It’s a […]
When Does It Ever Get Easier?
Running your own business can be exhausting. Overwhelming. Too many, many things to do, all at once, and every one of them seems to be a critical linchpin to making sure you can make the mortgage payment on time. Does it ever get easier? It does. It does get easier. After ten years with this […]