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Marketing Success Strategies: Got a Business Bucket List?
One of the surest ways to get a lot more done in your business and scale that ladder of success that much faster is to create a bucket list for your business. After all if you saw the movie, The Bucket List, years ago you know that the idea is to actually live all the…
Marketing Success Strategies: Does Your Brand Matter?
As I was standing in the grocery store the other day, searching for 9 volt batteries for an outdoor fan, I had a brand break through moment! I was originally scanning prices and reached for the Kroger brand, generic and unknown to me. Suddenly it hit me. This battery was going into the remote for…
Marketing Success Strategies: How to Create and Deliver on Great Expectations
One of the key components to success in any endeavor both professional and personal is delivering on expectations. But all too often we fail to establish “great” expectations at the start that are realistic, reliable, and fuel our success. A significant portion of your marketing success strategy needs to be devoted to creating and managing…
I Love You, Just Not Your Behavior
A dear friend of mine recently tried to take his life. Now, you will do one of two things right now. You will either continue reading and be open to what I’m going to share, or like 80% of people you will find yourself too uncomfortable to continue. Each of us has our darkside, our…
Celebrity Marketing Lessons: Don’t Be a Weiner!
With yet another sex scandal unfolding in the media this week featuring Congressman Anthony Weiner, it’s a great time to learn some valuable lessons in marketing from truly bad and sad behavior. Let’s take a look at these four priceless opportunities: Lying is always a bad idea, once you breach your market’s trust it is…
How to Beat Overwhelm in 3 Simple Steps
As I readied myself to write this I took stock of what I am juggling and very nearly curled up in a ball of inertia. Now I know that may come as a surprise. You probably think of me as most of my clients do, the Energizer Bunny of productivity and positivity. Well, now you…
Success Nightmares: What’s Keeping You Up at Night?
Success Nightmares? Having recently completed a very large project I was caught off guard when I found myself unable to sleep with nightmares about the project despite it being completed and turned over to the client. I didn’t have dreams about it in the last three months when I was in the thick of it,…
3 Fast Ways to Find Your Calm in the Middle of Chaos
Working on a tight deadline recently, I found myself stretched beyond my usual capacity for chaos and craziness and in great need of some fresh ways to get grounded fast, and find my inner flame (that positive place that I usually come from, but sometimes it goes a bit dark.) Here are 3 fast techniques…
#1 Ingredient to Success in Life and Business
It is easy to get puffed up about the superiority of your product or service. The hitch is that this is only in your own mind and is how your ego is tripping up your success. Without fail, every contractor that came on the job site immediately sought to show me ways someone else needed…
How to Keep Your Cool When Everything Gets Crazy
Life comes at us hard and fast on most days. If you are at all like me, you strive to have an even temper, a balanced outlook, and not let the turkeys get you down. But there are those times, those circumstances, and those people that will simply push every button you have and you’ll…
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