Why Clients Buy—And Why They Don't
How do we manage our energy in business? When are you and I the most distracted? Often, it’s right after you’ve finished one task and on your way to start another. You’ve planned your day well, but you lose your momentum and before you know it, you’re in a big doom loop. How do you […]
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What is time management? Why do we failing to manage our time in business? 2- Discipline vs Deadline If you look at disciplined people for inspiration, they’ll often mislead you. Take author Dan Brown, for example. He wakes up every day at 4 am, 365 days a year and writes. “Even on Christmas Day”, he emphasises. […]
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How can a business improve productivity? What is productivity and how you increase your productivity without wasting time? 3 – How Limitations Create Superior Work The way most cities solve traffic problems is to build more roads. If you live in a congested city, you know adding more roads only puts more cars on the […]
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Are optimists more successful than pessimists? What sort of entrepreneur do well in business? And especially when there is chaos. Imagine you are a prisoner of war. You’re thrown into an isolation space, not just for a week, or month, but for an entire year. All the while you’re being tortured and despair seems to […]
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Can you learn something new every year? And how do use that learning to improve yourself? We all get into argumentative situations. Yet, these situations almost always leave us worse off than before. How can we learn to negotiate instead of creating confrontation, and end up even better off than before? That’s one of the […]
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Many times when we are asked to show our work, we’re quite reluctant. There’s a reason for this reluctance. It’s more than likely that the work is quite shoddy. And yet, what if we changed our perspective and had a goal to create a ton of “rubbish”. If the concept sounds bizarre, it’s not! In […]
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Does a 100 year old book on advertising still apply today? In part two we explore another of Hopkins’ principles: Why Specifics Matter. If you ever tire of the slightly ridiculous drone of “hustle, hustle and hustle”, you might want to step into the past over a cup of coffee and cake. And read the […]
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Which marketing book has sold over eight million copies (and you might have never read)? Does a 100 year old book on advertising still apply today? In this two-part series we delve into concepts that are not just relevant, but crucial in marketing. Find out the principles that have lasted almost a whole century and […]
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Is there a way to pre-selling your products and services? Pre-sell is notoriously difficult for most entrepreneurs. It feels greasy and icky at times. And that lack of enthusiasm dooms the sale from the very start. But what if there were a way to sell with stories? Instead, all you’d need is a story. A […]
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Almost everyone plans the forthcoming year in somewhat a similar manner. You put in the big goals, the bigger projects and possibly some smaller ones too. Once all of that is done, if there’s a little space, a break or two may be added. But what if we didn’t go about planning our year in […]
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