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Mark Silver
Member since 23rd July 2007
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26th November 2008
Day after day we're being treated to news of the global financial markets being flushed further and further down the toilet. If you run a small business, it can be hard to hold onto hope and inspiration, because maybe this time things really are doomed.
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31st October 2008
So you struggle over getting all the details just right, like pricing and timing, and all the other features included in your offers so your best clients will buy from you. So why aren't they buying?
It's because all of those details are actually the l...
30th October 2008
Have you ever ended up TWO weeks behind in answering emails? An inbox full of missed opportunities, deadlines, and people you care about left with the sour taste that maybe you don't like them.
Not good for business. Very good for encouraging an unheal...
16th October 2008
�Fifteen years I've put into this business, and I'm just spent,� lamented one client. Another told me, �I pushed myself to get my website up, and I went over an edge with my health. It took me months to recover.�
It's humbling to realize, but a...
10th October 2008
Sometimes the world delivers up vocabulary words that are just plain wrong. Painfully wrong. Words like "branding," which the world of marketing seems to love, but regular folks and cows just seem to hate.
And it's because of how branding has often bee...
10th October 2008
You come off the freeway exit ramp, and bam, you're stuck behind a long line of cars at the stop sign, all wanting to turn left, the same way you want to go. Slowly, one by one, they go through the stop sign. You inch imperceptibly forward.
Suddenly on...
08th September 2008
As I write this, my wife Holly, myself, and our assistant Kate are planning to meet in a couple of hours. And why? So we can put a bunch of absolutely amazing and wonderful ideas on the back burner, and do nothing about them.
It's probably not such a s...
08th September 2008
Your business probably seems like many others. There are billyuns and billyuns of therapists, consultants, retailers, and healers. Yet, in order to make an impact and deeper connection with customers that is so necessary for a sustainable business, you ne...
28th August 2008
On a hot summer day in the early 1990's, I was standing in the middle of a California freeway. Four cars were piled up around me, and ambulances, fire engines, and the California Highway Patrol were arriving one after the other.
Our paramedic unit had ...
13th August 2008
Every time I teach a class, and build in the buddy system, people are blown away by how much -easier- everything is, just from not doing it alone. And not just getting stuff done, but the insights, the perspective shifts. Everything changes when you aren'...
13th August 2008
Have you ever received (or written) an email like this one?
"Thank you for your correspondence. We appreciate your desire to contact us, and someone will get back to you shortly."
Kinda cold and stale, eh? I'm used to seeing things like this from co...
22nd July 2008
Shiny new cars. Big mansions. The good life. Even if you're not a particularly material person, it's easy to be caught by those images, and to wonder: "Why don't I have that? Is there something wrong with me?"
It's become especially popular to equate m...
22nd July 2008
Coffee shop. The background beat of some silly pop music. Buzz of conversation. The glow of laptop screens. And then, one near the counter, the other in a window seat, they both look up, and their eyes meet. Attraction! Next thing you know, they're pickin...
16th July 2008
A participant in the Opening the Moneyflow Course has a fairly minimal email list of potential clients, about 80 or so. It's enough to bring in a few clients, but not enough to keep her pipeline full.
While she's ramping up to increase the list, which ...
15th July 2008
Why do you make certain mistakes over and over again? No matter how hard you try to fix or control the situation, they seem beyond your control.
For instance, I was working with a client recently who has a number of staff working under him, and wanted ...
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