Hostage and Yelp are two words that appear in the same sentence way too often. Unfortunately, this is how most business owners feel about Yelp and their modern day protection racket. Of course, if you are really clever you can fight back the way Botto Bistro did (brilliantly I might add.) I discovered this story […]
The Best Startup Advice From VC Superstars at Denver Startup Week
Perhaps the most important wealth magnet discussed in Dan Kennedy’s book, “Wealth Attraction for Entrepreneurs,” is “Be Somewhere”. Much like my post a little while ago about making yourself lucky at conferences, it’s really hard to get lucky if you don’t expose yourself to spontaneous and serendipitous meetings with strangers. This week is Denver Startup […]
These Three Things Are Proven To Improve Your Luck
My brother emailed me a fascinating article about Being Lucky. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, spent the last ten years researching what makes one person lucky and someone else unlucky. It is a really fascinating and relatively short article worth reading. Basically, he discovered that… Many people who feel unlucky are creatures of habit and are […]
Want To Win More Customers? Make An Embarrasing Confession
This is kinda embarrassing, but…About a year ago I hired a moving company to move my property from New Jersey to Denver. They quoted me a price based on the weight of my belongings. Seemed reasonable enough until I discovered that not only do they not deliver the stuff themselves, but the freight company they […]
Why Some People Succeed and Others Don’t
I have a confession to make. I am not great at grammar. I sometimes switch between tenses and even worse, I sometimes even make stupid spelling mistakes. 95% of the time those mistakes are a product of rushing instead of slowing down. There is an old saying, “The Difference Between Smart and Stupid is Half […]
How To Never Need To Hire A Graphic Designer Ever Again
Every Once In a While a New Tool Comes Around That Is So MAGICAL, SO AMAZING, SO BRILLIANT, you can’t stop talking about it. Canva is one such tool. Its such a perfect user experience and pleasant process that delivers an amazing design afterwards that It is just amazing! I remember a bunch of years […]
My Biggest Takeaway From Authority Intensive 2014
I attended an incredible conference (Authority Intensive 2014) last week produced by the wonderful folks from Copyblogger and as promised it was jam packed with immediately actionable insights. Too many to enumerate in this one post, but to give you a taste my biggest takeaway it was from Jason Millers presentation. Without knowing Jason I […]
How To Strike Up a Conversation With a Complete Stranger (or many) at a Conference (or anywhere else)
Meeting people at conferences is hard. If you are like me, it is very easy to talk yourself out of introducing yourself to a complete stranger wandering around a conference. Yet, you are there to network. The people around you are there to network. We are all human. We crave connection. Meeting people at exhibit […]
How To Create Winning Proposals in a Fraction of the Time
For the longest time my proposals were ugly. I used to believe that substance was much more important than image. I believed that if my proposals had meaningful insights, clear deliverables and timelines, and reasonable pricing, they would win over customers. I remember one story from a job I had a long time ago, where […]
What Facebooks Acquisition of Oculus VR Means For The Future of Marketing?
Facebook announced today the acquisition of virtual reality technology company Oculus VR. Engineers on Hacker News are up in arms about what it means for Facebook, a media company, to own a leader in the future of communication. The idea of immersive gaming is truly at our doorstep, and Star Trek like holodecks are on […]
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