13th August 2008
Have you ever noticed that people get incredibly happy whenever you unexpectedly think of them or do something for them?
It doesn't matter if it's related to your business or personal life. Take Oprah Winfrey for example. At a live event a few years ag...
13th August 2008
Do you spend so much time working in your business that you never work on your business? The corporate world knows the value of taking time out for a step back, taking time to assess what is going right, what is going wrong and what just plain isn't going...
30th July 2008
The book "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard is a 98-page look at the various ways that we react to change. In the book, there are two mice and two mice-size humans and we see how each reacts when their cheese has been moved -- ...
24th July 2008
It's that time again. You send out invoices and sit and wait, and wait, and wait for your clients to pay you. Sometimes it's a matter of cash flow on their end, sometimes they are just too busy and forget and other times it's something little that they ar...
23rd July 2008
One of the most popular questions I'm asked is "HOW do I build my ezine list?" or "How do I get more people to sign up for my ezine list?"
There is NO magic pill to building your ezine list!
Please read the above sentence again.
Trust me, if a ma...
20th July 2008
There is what I call a "Hierarchy of Connection" - the higher the level of your connection, the more credibility you have and the more likely prospects are to turn into clients and refer others to you - think of this as the "know, like and trust" factor y...
20th May 2008
Once you return home from a conference or workshop, it's easy to forget all the things you learned and promised yourself you'd implement.
After all, you're back in your regular environment: your family needs attention after you've been gone, work tasks...
01st May 2008
Many businesses spend thousands of dollars branding everything they do to create a familiarity with their prospects and customers and yet, sadly, miss the boat completely when it comes to their service.
In the last week, I experienced each of the follo...
30th April 2008
Every time you turn around these days, people are telling you that you need to have "a big list". Is this true?
"Yes. . .and no."
Truth is, you must have a list of qualified prospects who relate to you AND who want to purchase the products and servi...
29th April 2008
It's Monday and you get an email indicating that writing an ezine is THE way to get new clients. You drop everything and start working on an email newsletter.
It's Tuesday and your friend calls and says that he heard the best way to get publicity is pa...
28th April 2008
I received the following question yesterday: "How do I get started publishing and marketing my ezine?"
While the question is broad enough to warrant its own seminar, let's discuss the "How do I get started publishing?" question this week and the "marke...
25th April 2008
With every new technology, comes groups of users who immediately want to dispense with the old. Now that webinars are becoming mainstream, I've had a few clients ask which is better to use in their business: old-fashioned direct mail, teleseminars or webi...
25th April 2008
There was a teleseminar I was interested in attending last week (promoted in a colleague's e-newsletter) and so I dutifully clicked the "register here" link.
That link took me to another web page (after 3 tries), which gave me another description of th...
02nd April 2008
"A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles." -- Anonymous
Think about the above quote for a second. When you want, I mean REALLY want something, you can almost always rationalize getting it. You find a way to overcome that nagging little voice...
31st March 2008
Hello! How are you? So what do you do?
The clock has started. I've just met you and within those first several seconds have formed an opinion of your success, your income, your education, etc.
Studies show that the average American has a nine second...
