Unexpected Discoveries – The Weekly Wake Up

 Small business owners, do you ever get stuck in your to do list and forget to come up for air? If so, I encourage you to get commune with...

Get Different Staff Picks – Quotes they love

Get Different hits the shelves on September 21st! As the date approaches, we thought it’d be fun to share just a few of our staff’s favorite quotes from the book....

Read to Lead – Mike’s Likes

 My nose is in a book more than I write. It’s true. Because there’s no better way to broaden your mind, as well your business than reading books. I’m...

Tips for Making Money in Educational Consulting – From a Profit First Professional

Ross Loveland, of Grow Green Profit Advisors, is a Profit First Professional and recently shared an article he worked on about making money as an educational consultant. Check it out...

Outmarket Everyone Else

I felt invisible. I had launched my first business, a VAR, in 1996. Back then the popular three letter acronym for a managed service provider, was Value Added Reseller. We...

Mike’s Likes – Fiction for Entrepreneurs and Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

 Business owners, you need an escape. I read Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. And an escape it was. But first, I want to explain why reading fiction is...

Don’t Give Up On You

 I’ll give you the punchline first. If I listened to people before writing my first book, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Second punchline - if you have...

Mike’s Likes – Books That Helped Shape My Business by Ryan Deiss and Michael Port

 No matter what our philosophies or offerings are, we have one thing in common - we have to sell it. Your customers want to know you see them. No...

Mike’s Likes, Black Magic Design, Books by Kerry Patterson and Taki Moore

 What’s your role in your business? Aside from creating systems and writing books to support them, I’m a keynote speaker. And, not to be Captain Obvious here, but, keynotes...

Mike’s Likes and Kids’ Books by Todd Herman and Adam Wallace (Read for a surprise!)

Tell me a fun fact about you in the comments. Me? I like cheap sunglasses. Because I like to break stuff. Ok, some stuff. Summer is here! (Hence the sunglasses!)...

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