Category: Links of Interest
If you want your message to come across, practice
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You can’t just show up and ‘wing it’, not if you want your message to land. Today I’m going to talk about practising before you talk to your prospects so that you can turn them into clients.
Kim Doyal talks about how your business brings you space
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Kim and I talk about how after the death of her husband, she found a business that brought her the space needed to be a single parent. You can find Kim at The WP Chick. Links Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday Danielle Laporte Pivot 48 Days to the Work You Love
Do you have a secret life like Walter Mitty?
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There is a great movie called The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It has dreams that weren’t met and adventure. It’s a great analogy for where many business owners are. They dreamed of an amazing business, but then life started happening and they’ve been carried along to something that’s good. Good is…okay, but that’s not…
How do you 2x your results in half the time?
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How do you get 2 times the results in half the effort? – Profit First Today I talk about this thought experiment found in Profit First. Spending time on these thoughts can help you transform your business because they require huge changes in how you run your business. Are you ready to make huge changes?
Every day of work can’t be a good day
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We like to dream that every day running a business can be a good day, but it can’t. Today I go a bit deeper in to how some of the days have been going for me lately. They haven’t been the days I had hoped when I started a business.
Are you listening, or waiting to speak?
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I’ve come back to this topic a few times…are you listening or are you waiting for your turn to speak? Today I talk about what listening sounds like (hint you don’t talk) and give you a few resources to improve your listening skills Links Read to Lead Episode #170 My series on effective questioning
What is your business in service of?
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It started as a bit of a throw away comment on a run as I saw the mountains. I don’t run the roads or do hill repeats just to be a faster runner. I don’t do it to ‘win’ the ultramarathon I’ve got on the calendar. I do it so I can move fast in…
How Brent Weaver uses a 35 hour a week constraint to grow his business
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Today we talk to Brent Weaver from ugurus.com about how he runs a business. We talk about his 35 hour rule and how that shows itself in his business and how he uses the constraint of 35 hours to help grow the capacity of his business. The show ends with some banter at the beginning…
Are you profitable? Are you paying yourself market rates?
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Despite having the best year financially in my business last year, it felt like the hardest. Today I’m going to talk about some of the changes I’m making in 2017 to make my business way more profitable. Hear the Digital Agency Show where they talk about paying yourself market rates and how profitable you are.
Don’t fool yourself, it’s a long hard road to a successful business
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Don’t fool yourself in to thinking that you can start a business with anything but a lot of work. It’s a long hard road to start a business and keep it successful. Today I talk about that work in the context of running and the years it takes to really hit your peak.
