We all know we love bonuses. We all know that a bonus will create a tremendous demand for your product or service. So if you’re thinking of running a marketing campaign, without a bonus, here’s a good reason why you shouldn’t. It’s based on giving a kid a chocolate ice cream. Well, go on, give [...]
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Have you heard of Gottman? Gottman, as in John Gottman. What if I told you he was the is the co-founder and co-director of the Gottman Institute? Nope, doesn’t ring a bell? Well that’s interesting, because Gottman’s research is all about ringing bells. Or intuition, as we call it. And Gottman is a good example [...]
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Not one of us has ever been able to check in to our local airport, get on a rocket and zoom into outer space. Well, not yet at least. So for all practical reasons, the product/service doesn’t exist. But that doesn’t stop people from signing up to be on the first space flight. So how [...]
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I am resending this message in case you missed it last week. In the year 2007, I had a discussion with a client. It was about giving most of our courses away–yes, almost every Psychotactics Course–by the year 2020. Without charge. It sounds unusual: Why would someone just give valuable information away? It depends on [...]
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In the movie, Star Wars, Luke Skywalker and Yoda, the Jedi Master, stand near the edges of the Dagobah swamps. Luke is training in earnest to be a Jedi. Yoda turns to Luke and asks him to raise his sunken starfighter, which weighs several hundred tons, from the Dagobah swamps with the power of his [...]
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Listen to yourself as you’re speaking. You’ll invariably find yourself saying the word “but” several times a day. You’ll use the word to nullify what you just said, as in: You did a great job, but… Or you’ll use the word to defend your actions, as in: I would have done that, but… My niece [...]
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Most of us are experts at trying to fix problems at the last minute. It ain’t broke, so why fix it, we think. Well, how do you know it ain’t broke? And is it really important to become a jack of many trades, or just concentrate on your niche? Heck, that’s one tricky question… But [...]
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When we sit down to do a project, we never seem to see the end of it. Let’s say you want to create a simple information product such as a fifteen minute audio. Technically speaking, this audio should take you fifteen minutes to create. If you sit down and write an outline, it should take [...]
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Imagine a close relative needs to be driven to the hospital and you don’t have time to call an ambulance. You have to drive your relative to the hospital right away. So what do you do? You drive, don’t you? And you get your relative to the hospital. And obvious as it may sound, you [...]
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Take out that Nokia from your bag. And look at the features. It can tell time; it can be a stopwatch; it can keep diary appointments; it can help you pass time with ingenious little games; it can probably take photos; send text messages; maybe even double up as an mp3 player or a torch. [...]
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It’s the centre court at Wimbledon. The big digital Rolex scorekeeper is blank. No linesperson peering whether the ball is in or out. No umpire somberly saying,”Quiet please,” And no, Maria Sharapova isn’t doing a practice run either. Heck, we’ve arrived at Wimbledon centre court a month too early Yes, we have. But those empty [...]
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If you were to walk into a Hollywood studio, you’d expect to see actors, lights and action, right? Right. But actors, camera and lights are expensive. So every movie director and producer on the planet does one thing: They outline. They outline the script. They outline the storyboard. They outline every darned thing that can [...]
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