We live in unprecedented times with automation, technology and ridiculous speed. It can delude us into thinking we have immense power and reach when in actuality, we do business and work in a world of human beings. Our interactions, slights, likes, moods, and movements matter in whether we want to have anything to do withContinue reading “Above All Be Human”
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Indiscriminate Business
The illusion we have today in the marketplace is the buffet trap. We see everything that is available to us. This includes apps, freemium software, business ideas, low-cost labor and new growth hacking strategies. It’s all available and cheaper and more accessible than ever. But if we gorge with indiscriminate adoption, we underestimate the messContinue reading “Indiscriminate Business”
Building a Money Making Foundation
Money is flowing every day. Deals are made. People pull out their credit cards continuously to buy what they want. We don’t have to create demand as much as we need to sell things that people want to buy and make it easy for them to do so. If you are so impatient and frenziedContinue reading “Building a Money Making Foundation”
A Game Worth Playing
“What man needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling of some goal worthy of him.” ~ Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning “Consider that if man were to succeed in ridding the world of all disease, poverty, pestilence, famine, and war, what, then would be the purpose of his existence?”Continue reading “A Game Worth Playing”
Everything is an Experiment
Here’s the simple strategy for keeping you from getting washed away in the tides of innovation all around you: Observe what’s happening around you in your world and see what people are buying. Come up with 3 ideas that get people to buy. Build a solution and sell it to one customer. Observe theirContinue reading “Everything is an Experiment”
Leveling Up
If the world was a static place, you could make your bed, set things in order and watch your money-making job or business simply cash flow without disruption. However, we don’t live in Narnia. It’s not a place of bliss and perfection. Now that everyone is connected and able to make change, it forces yourContinue reading “Leveling Up”
You Should Not Be in Chaos
If you are in continual chaos, why? Do you simply accept reality as one giant mess? Week after week is simply reactive and full of open loops? Yes, business can be overwhelming in our connected economy. We can all create work for each other rather quickly. However, when you think of your workflow, then you canContinue reading “You Should Not Be in Chaos”
Growth Hacking Approach to Avoid Stupid Selling
Manners matter. We know that interrupting people face-to-face is rude and can be quite embarrassing. Our social norms make it too risky to attempt to force our agendas and wills upon people we encounter in person. However, with distance and virtualization, there are still the unimaginative souls who persist in trying to violate basic manners.Continue reading “Growth Hacking Approach to Avoid Stupid Selling”
Repackaging
You don’t have to do business the way you are set up currently. You could take the same core value you sell and repackage how you present your wares and skills to the market. The position you are in was a choice. Maybe it was practical. Early on someone asked for a price. You named it andContinue reading “Repackaging”
Would You Rather Be Rich or Right?
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. ~ David Ogilvy It’s extremely difficult to be wanted in a world of ridiculous options. You can insist on your idea and work hard on creativity. That may be fulfilling because you feel right regardlessContinue reading “Would You Rather Be Rich or Right?”
