The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

The most common question entrepreneurs ask me, is "how can I improve my marketing with no or little money?’ That’s literally the million-dollar question! So I sat down and hammered...

How Many Life Units Is It Worth?

Before we get started here, I want to make sure we agree on something. Every hour of our life is an hour closer to our death. In other words each...

How To Get Refocused On Work

It happens to us all. We are working away, and then that email chime goes off. Two hours later we finally realize that we drifted off from the work we...

Use The Phoenix Effect To Make Customers Raving Fans

If your customers feel someone or something is superior to them, they will envy it. And if you are that "superior" thing, envy is not good. When customers envy something,...

7 Ways To Spark Innovation In Your Business

7 Ways To Spark Innovation In Your Business Leaders innovate. Followers follow. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, was quoted as once saying, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”...

The New SEO Method To Market Your Business

The goal of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for years and years was to make your blog, articles, videos and other content (like info-graphics) findable by search engines - ahem -...

Use Commonality To Attract Customers & Prospects

Commonality is a big, massive persuasion tool.  You and I automatically know, like and trust people the more commonality we find.  Just think about it for a second - if you are...

Why the Best Business Ideas Come in the Shower

You’ve been there – in the midst of a vigorous shampooing ritual and mid-foam-up, you suddenly have a light bulb moment that effectively solves the problem you and your team...

Passion For What You Do

My friend was the second child born to his parents. When he was about to have his own second child, his mother shared a story with him. She explained that...

80% 95% of Success is Showing Up

Woody Allen said 80% of success is showing up. That was clearly before Al Gore invented the Internet. Showing up today gives you 95% of success. I realized it this...

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