The Power Of Authenticity (The Authentic Entrepreneur)

If there is one thing I have learned in my 41 years life, is that authenticity is the ultimate path to success. Yes, it does yield financial freedom. But, it...

Why You Need To Ask Better Questions

As entrepreneurs, we ask ourselves questions all the time – how we can get more customers, how we can get more money, or how even how we can get more...

How Badly Do You Want It?

I just interviewed my thousandth entrepreneur. Mind you, this is not a conclusion from formal tracking.  I myself have been an entrepreneur almost twenty years now.  From day one, I...

The Entrepreneurs Addiction: Top Line Growth

When we focus on the top line, any sale is a good sale. Any paying client is a good client. Anything that makes money is everything we want. Top line...

Take Your Profit First. Run Your Business With The Rest.

GAAP Accounting Is Kinda Useless Here it goes: The GAAP has it all wrong. Now, before you click the little X at the top of the screen to close out...

See It Through The Eyes Of A Client

You Don't Get It, Because You Don't See It. You don't really get it. Nor do I. Nor does any entrepreneur. We think we know what it takes to build...

Good Clients, Bad Clients And No Clients At All

I received a call a while back from an entrepreneur who was thrilled to have landed the “big fish.” He pulled in a client who just signed a six digit...

What Passion Is Not

I saw this billboard in New York City.  It totally misrepresents passion.  Passion is not the feature - what we do. Passion is in the benefit - why we do...

The Real Reason Entrepreneurs Don't Hire Their First Employee

The excuses all sound so legit.  I don't have the money to hire someone!  The systems aren't in place yet!  Unless the new guy comes up to speed super fast,...

Marketing To Psychographics

Psychographics are used to define persons by their interests, immutable laws, attitudes and experience. Too often we market to demographics alone, the quantifiable parameters of persons such as sex, age...

Listen to Mike’s podcasts on your favorite app: