When people stop buying what you are selling – sell what they are buying. But this begs the question “what ARE they buying?”!
The general school of thought these days is that while sales for higher ticket items might be sluggish people are still buying lower priced items such as short reports, mini-workshops and inexpensive membership programs. [...]
Are you starting to wind down 2009? Getting ready for the holiday season?
This is my favorite time of year, not only because of the festivites (which I adore), but because it’s the time of year that successful small business owners around the world are turning their sights towards a new year and new possibilities for success! [...]
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You probably already know that abundance is a feeling, not a state of being. One person can feel abundant with $1,000 in savings while another feels panic-inducing scarcity. Today I want to share with you another important strategy I learned from Thomas Leonard while he was [...]
I’ve had many inquiries about the difference between overresponding and overreacting since writing about it recently. The word “overresponding” makes my spell checker go a bit nutty but it’s a very good word and I think it deserves a place in our language and the dictionary.
I first learned of the concept of overresponding from [...]
Last weekend I went to see Michael Moore’s “Capitalism – A Love Story” mostly because I was curious to know his views on how things got so messed up in the financial sector. True to form, Moore uses the camera like a blunt instrument. I got what I went for – information delivered in [...]
Depending on your age, and perhaps your sense of humor, you may be familiar with the Monty Python skit “the Silly Olympics”. Even if you do recall it take a brief moment and watch the first 30 seconds of this YouTube video: http://budurl.com/8l22
If you can’t view the video, let me give you the highlights: The 27th [...]
Many business people I know don’t really set goals of any kind, or at least not to the degree they really should. In fact, in December of 2008 I did a survey in which I asked small business owners “did you have a plan for 2008?”
87% said they did not…87%! That’s astounding!
I admit I thought the [...]