Wrapping up a project or software release can be a real challenge. For almost fifteen years now my business partner and I have referred to the process as "snapping chalk lines." If you are carpenter or home improvement buff you'll know we are referring to the chalk lines you "snap" to mark where … [Read more...]
Toughest trials and biggest breakthroughs
Your toughest trials will come right before your biggest breakthroughs. When the road seems roughest. When the darkness seems darker than ever before. When your patience has expired. When you feel most alone and defeated. ...but if you have been doing the right things like: Only engaging in … [Read more...]
Is it a blog or a business?
Every blog I have ever read has a purpose. The question you need to ask is, if the purpose of the blog you are reading is to make money? Just about every blog I have ever read serves some form of self-promotional purpose for the author or business producing the blog. Self-promotion, however, should … [Read more...]
Inbound marketing and showing up
The best inbound marketing plan in the world will only take you so far. At lest if you're in the business of delivering high-end B2B solutions. Engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and your Blog will help substantially narrow the number of suspects who could become partner … [Read more...]
Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Real-Time Marketing with Foursquare
My friend Tom Snyder wrote a great how-to guide for businesses that want to market using geolocation services. The guide focuses on Fourquare but there is plenty of strategy interlaced in Tom's prose. The strategy and tactics he uncovers are the real value of this gem and can be applied to any … [Read more...]
Coffee Shop CEO
Can you really run a successful and growing business from a coffee shop? There is no right or wrong answer to this question but I can tell you that as much time as I spend in coffee shops it's not where I run my business. Coffee shops are where I get the vast majority of my work done. And by work I … [Read more...]
Sellling with ABCs and ABS
The title of this post may look like alphabet soup but stick with me for a couple of minutes and it will all make sense. One day, many years ago a seasoned sales professional in the graphic arts industry announced to me that he sells by the ABC method. Being younger than I am now I did not realize … [Read more...]
Why I write and publish
I write to make ideas tangible. I write to test the validity of ideas. I write because it's the doing part of thinking. and here's the big one... I write to fill the time I used to fill with behaviors and habits that could have destroyed my life. Sometime between June and July 2009 I pulled my … [Read more...]
Batman or Superman Part II
Last week I shared my friend Jeffrey Allen's Batman or Superman post with you. Jeff had so much fun writing that one he offered us this follow-up. I suggest taking a minute to read last week's part one first. In our last post we looked at why it’s better to be Batman than it is to be Superman when … [Read more...]
Getting Unstuck, Revisited
Yes, there are days I wake up and just don't feel like doing anything. Other days, I am so overwhelmed by the volume of opportunities that lay before me that I allow my brain to freeze up and decides to work on nothing. It's how I am wired. I can't change that but I can change how I react to both … [Read more...]
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