The Top Five Surprisingly Necessary Qualities for Small Business Owners
It’s no joke, many small businesses end at a young age. Their owners, burnt out, broke, or simply preoccupied, give them up for good. It can be a long, winding, rough path to get a business going. I’ve heard the same stories you have about the overnight sensations. But, for the vast majority of small […]
A Fist-Sized Portion of Abundance.
Abundance in business is alluring- but how much do we need? Often we don’t think of our own capacity before asking for more and more and more… And, we also don’t ask- is what we’re receiving fundamentally nourishing, that we would want more of it? When I’m looking for more in my business- more subscribers, […]
How to Receive Guidance for Business Decisions
When intuition strikes, it’s a wonderful thing. And when it doesn’t? You know, you’ve got a decision to make about what price to charge, or what topic to cover, or even where to spend hard-earned money on marketing design. The deadline can’t stretch any more than it already has, and you’re still dithering… which way […]
Receiving Guidance In Your Business
When intuition strikes, it’s a wonderful thing. And when it doesn’t? You know, you’ve got a decision to make about what price to charge, or what topic to cover, or even where to spend hard-earned money on marketing design. The deadline can’t stretch any more than it already has, and you’re still dithering… which way […]
The Faces of Death
My friend and mastermind buddy, Michael Bungay Stanier, who writes an outstanding newsletter called “Outside the Lines” outdid himself on the latest issue, which talks about “cheating death.” Well, not really, but it’s one of those “Big Issue” newsletters, and is striking. One link he posted particularly caught my eye, and it’s called “Faces of […]
Momentum, Tissues, and Time Management
There’s not a lot new to say about time management that hasn’t already been said. If you live in our technology-driven western culture, and aren’t yet spiritually enlightened, there’s a huge chance that you are one of the horde of overwhelmed, exhausted, overworked people. One of the participants in the Moneyflow course recently posted a […]
Why Your Clients Should Always Come Last
If someone were drowning in front of you, everything else would fall out of focus. Suddenly, all the trivial little things really are trivial, and you drop everything to help this poor soul who is going down for the third time. If you don’t act right now, and forget about everything else, they’ll be gone, […]
From Attractive to Safe Marketing, Part 2
In the introduction to this series, I explained the difference between trying to create marketing that attracts, which is dangerous and usually futile, versus creating safe marketing that actually works. Then, in the second post, I got into more of the nitty-gritty of identity, and why it’s so much more better than talking about anything […]
From Attractive to Safe Marketing
On Friday I wrote about why trying to create attractive marketing can lead you down the path to hype, and how marketing really needs to be safe. A kinda weird thought, I know, but check out the post, and it should become clear. As always, feel free to argue with me. 🙂 But, that’s in […]
Attractive Marketing? Ugh!
Go ‘head, do it. Search for “attraction” and “marketing.” You’ll see that nearly every marketing guru up and down, left-right, forward-backward, is all about telling you how to make your marketing attractive. I’m telling you: Stop! Stop… please stop. It doesn’t work. You can’t make your marketing attractive. Huh? Well, okay, sure. You can bring […]