You’re about to start up a business, or write a book, or create a new course, and you’re scared as heck. When you look around all you see is wall to wall competition. Competition that’s not only vast, but probably has better resources than you. And as if that were not enough, they probably have […]
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How Training Increases Your Expertise Factor
Imagine you run a furniture store. And there are twenty-two other furniture stores in your city. You’ve got just one problem. You’re just another furniture store. Another furniture store, which seems similar to the next store, and the next, and the next. Now don’t get me wrong You know your store is different. You know […]
[Continue reading...]Article 1: How To Get More Customers
You could break your head trying to drum up one customer at a time.Or you could get yourself a strategic alliance. Or even better, a bunch of strategic alliances. So you rev yourself up. You dash off a series of emails. And nothing. Not a peep out of the strategic alliances. You try, try and […]
[Continue reading...]How to Make a Workshop Training Pay For Itself If You’re a Small Biz Owner
The most interesting word in the sentence is “pay”. Or rather payback. Why would you put in time, money and effort without a clear payback? And yet most people have not a clue what this payback could be For me it was about confidence. When I first started out in business I saw myself as […]
[Continue reading...]The Case For (And Against) Pop-Ups On Your Website
So you hate pop-ups, right? But what I told you that pop-ups increase sign-ups? Would you still hate pop-ups? And why would you stay away from pop-ups, despite their clear ability to increase sign-ups to your website or newsletter? Imagine you’re walking through the doors of your local mall You’re whistling your happy tune. You’re […]
[Continue reading...]How Ego-Killers Can Drive Clients Away
So you’ve read the Brain Audit. And yes, you’ve worked out that problems are good systems to get the client’s attention. So you take out all the problems and dump them in the client’s face. But it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it that matters. If you present your words in the […]
[Continue reading...]Five Reasons Why Newsletters Fail To Get Response
Five reasons? There may be seven thousand reasons why your newsletter may not get a response. And the key lies in the word “response” itself. Most people don’t have a darned clue what “response” means. When someone says, “I am getting no response”, do they mean: 1) I am not able to sell enough products […]
[Continue reading...]The Power Of Enough
Imagine I asked you a question. A simple question where you could choose the answer. And if you chose the right answer, you’d end up with about $20,000 more per annum (theoretically, of course) Imagine that. You’d have twenty thousand more buckeroos in the bank. But instead–strangely–you’ll choose to forfeit the $20,000. How could this […]
[Continue reading...]Why Discounting Sends Clients To Your Competition
Seven fire trucks. Six hours of belching smoke. Scurrying firemen scurrying around, desperate to contain, and eventually outfox the flames. And what happens right after your local mall has had a huge fire? Why a fire-sale, of course On Sunday morning, in the middle of the year, it was like being in the midst of […]
[Continue reading...]Cold Calling: How To Get Your Foot In The Door
The biggest problem with cold calling is that there’s almost 100% rejection rates already in place, waiting for you. This is because the person you’re calling on, doesn’t know you, doesn’t care to know you, and you’re mostly taking their time. But cold-calling works, has always worked and will always work, if you do the […]
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