What would be one simple change you could recommend that your audience make, today? What would be one thing your ideal customer or client could do to make their lives better, to solve a specific problem they have? As entrepreneurs and business owners, the trials and tribulations we go through …
What The Streets Are Really Paved With
There’s this great old joke I heard* on ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ recently: "When my grandfather came to America, he was told that the streets were paved with gold. And when he got to America, he found out three things: 1 – that the streets were not paved with gold 2 – that the …
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The Tightrope Walk
Recently I talked with a business owner who needed help with a tightrope walk. He’s not an acrobat, which is just as well. Physical balancing acts aren't exactly my strong point. (Put me on anything with wheels and you’ll see. I have the natural coordination of a giraffe on an ice rink.) We …
Which Side Are YOU On?
Selling is no longer enough. Everybody and their uncle has ‘something to sell’… We’ve created a monster (called the internet), and now we have to deal with it. It’s become easier than ever to create a product and find a market for it… But connecting the two successfully is where the hard …
390 Questions Every DAY?
I’m currently re-reading this great book by a guy named Warren Berger, called A More Beautiful Question. In the book, Berger examines the importance of questions in life and business. And apparently, a recent study showed that the average 4-year-old British girl asks her mum 390 questions a …
SO Frustrating!
Ever felt so FRUSTRATED at not being able to get your point across… So damn helpless… That you could only clench and unclench your fists like a maniac? Ever tried so hard to find the right words but were still left with blank, confused faces looking back at you… You desperately want to …
Reading The Room
It seems all kinds of weird accidents can lead to people developing superpowers. Radiation exposure, dying aliens, insect or animal bites, mysterious cosmic rays… But what’s always been more interesting to me are the real-life superpower origin stories... The ones that take more than a …
Why They Can’t Hear You
“What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying” This quote recently got me thinking… It’s from Ralph Waldo Emerson (sort of), and one way it can be read is basically as a more poetic way of saying “actions speak louder than words”. You know when some statements and …
