How to Ignore Your Customers (and have them love you for it!)
Let’s be honest: customers aren’t always right. In fact, the old saying that “the customer is always right” might be the most wrong thing ever written. So how could something so wrong, be adopted so widely as right? How can something that feels like the right thing to do actually end up severely limiting your business down the line? And how is it that I seem to be the only person on earth to see this huge inconsistency in business? Well, I’m not. In fact, [...]
How to Eliminate Uncertainty and Predict the Future
Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan. Sometimes, things happen that seem so far out of your control, you don’t feel like you are in the driver’s seat of your life or your business. And sometimes, that actually is the case. But most of the time the future can be anticipated and controlled in a predictable way. There are those of us that run our business like the Wild West, and as my good friend Kelly McRae would say, they like to “Shoot from the [...]
Teamwork Tactics – How to Get Shit Done
Imagine for a second that you are stopped dead on the freeway. You’re stuck in the heat of the summer. You can feel the heat radiate up from the sizzling concrete, and a drip of sweat pours down from your forehead determined to burn the edge of your eyeball with its salt content. You wonder why you’re sitting in traffic. Like seriously…you’re on a 5 lane massive highway with tons of room, yet you’re sitting completely still. It’s obvious that had you waited just an [...]
The Ultimate Purpose
Every week I talk about business, social media, marketing and SEO, but I really wanted to stray form that a little this week. I’d like to share something with you that’s been heavily on my mind the past several days, and has kept me up each night thinking about it. I’ve thought a lot about the big-picture stuff in my life, and every time I do, I keep coming back to the same thing – that is my ultimate purpose. Now before you get all [...]
The 5 Best Habits Of Effective Entreprenuers
Let’s face it, we all do things we know we shouldn’t do, and we all have our repetitive motions throughout the day that we don’t want to get rid of…but I think what a lot of us don’t realize, is that the same brain function that keeps us doing the things we shouldn’t, can actually aid in making the things we should do easier. The difference between a negative habit and a positive routine is simply a choice. Habits are hard to form against your [...]