Tag Archives: Small Business

Book Review of “The Big Leap” by Gay Hendricks

This is a book a few friends and business colleagues had told me about and recently one of my mentors and coaches also recommended so I put it in my briefcase on a recent trip, and am I glad I did. The Big Leap , by Gay Hendricks, is a very easy to read book…

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Information Marketing and “The Cave Man”

Information Marketing has actually been around since the Stone Age.  Think about it…. The “first man” discovered that if he (or she) rounded the edges on a stone and rolled it, it would move much easier than an object that has square corners or any corners at all.  As this inventor worked on changing transportation…

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Book Review of “Make ‘Em Laugh & Take Their Money” by Dan S. Kennedy

“Make ‘Em Laugh & Take Their Money” by Dan S. Kennedy, is a book all about using humor in your marketing and your speaking.  It is written in vintage Dan Kennedy style so if you don’t like Dan, and the way he writes or speaks, you probably won’t like this book either. However, if you…

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No Plan, No Direction, No Success

Many entrepreneurs think of themselves as spontaneous people.  Get an idea, act on it, and it will automatically become an overnight success.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t usually happen that way.  And, it probably won’t happen that way for you. Despite what you may have heard, most “overnight successes” took a lot of hard work and planning. …

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Book Review of “Getting The Love You Want” by Harville Hendrix

So, you may be asking why in the world would a marketing and business strategist be reading and talking about a relationship book. Well, it’s really because there are all kinds of subjects that fascinate and intrigue me, but also because relationships are relationships to some degree and the more you know about people, how…

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No Integration

Most business people and entrepreneurs think they’re running multi-pronged marketing programs, when what they’re really doing is the same type of single-pronged marketing over and over again.  You don’t want to forget there are many marketing methods you should be incorporating into every project. Many internet marketers are just now starting to branch out into…

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Marketers Have Success, Then Stop Doing What Worked

It doesn’t matter what level of market er you are, you either have already, or will at some point in your career, make this mistake. You are going along and things are going pretty well. You’re in the middle of a marketing campaign and you’re getting good results with what you’re doing.  You get through…

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Book Review of “Learning How To Avoid The Gap” by Dan Sullivan

“Learning How To Avoid The Gap” by Dan Sullivan is a small, quickly read book packed with powerful strategies (and by now you know how much I like strategy). At only 30 pages, I’m not sure it should even count as having read a book, but the information packed inside of it certainly does. The…

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No Follow-Up

You just made some sales, whether it was from the platform, on a teleseminar, after sending an email or your online newsletter, or from a direct mail piece.  It doesn’t matter how you made the sales, you’re feeling pretty good about it.  Most marketers think this is the end of the road, that their work…

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Power Up Your Engines

Your Business Spaceship, “MSS Info-preneur,” Is Ready To Blast Off! What Would Happen If You Fell Into One Of The 10 Most Common Marketing Black Holes? Imagine that you get into your 2011 model “marketing spaceship,” named “MSS Info-preneur” and you point it straight at the million dollar solar-mass black hole, in the center of…

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