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Why You Need To Systematize Your Business

Systematizing your business means freedom. Not just one type of freedom, but many. You are freed from doing the work. And systems even give you the choice to simply watch...

How To Break Free From Business Failure

Failure is an extraordinary enemy. It plays unfairly. It gets in your mind. Failure is notorious for its stealthy ability to get lock you into a downward death spiral.  And...

The Biggest Excuse We Tell Ourselves

If Only It hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. A prospect for my business growth consulting group decided to go with a competitor. Egads! I mean how could...

How To Ask For Help, In Seven Steps

How To Ask For Help, In Seven Steps Ringo Starr and The Beatles said it best, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” Ringo is still right...

What Angel Investors Look For

Entrepreneurs seem to confuse “angel investors” with givers of free money grants.  They’re not. An angel investor is an investor.  Just like you buy Ford stock with an expectation for...

The 15 Business Trends To Avoid This Year

Every day it seems like there are a dozen new trends that I "need" to jump on to give my business a competitive edge. The truth is most new trends,...

Why Fake It 'Til You Make It Doesn’t Work

Want to guarantee failure? Do this: fake it ‘til you make it. I bet you didn’t expect to hear that. I mean, how many times have you been told you...

How To Raise Money For Your Business

Money is like oxygen. And the flow of money is like breathing. You need to breathe to live. And you need the flow of money to keep your business alive,...

Financial Freedom Is Costing You Your Life

Financial Freedom? I love money.  It is a powerful tool for getting lots of things done.  And it provides that all so valuable financial freedom.  But I’ve learned that it’s...

Some of the Most Memorable Marketing of 2012

The world not ending on December 21, 2012, wasn’t the only memorable marketing moment in 2012. From Twitter and LinkedIn breaking up, to FaceBook posting an embarrassingly low initial public...

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