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The Airport Car park and a tip to get more leads
I couldn’t find my car; can that help you build your business? It had been a great holiday, but after 17 hours of travelling and returning to the cold, wet, dark of the UK(before the plane it had been 38 and dry) really wasn’t helping my mood. At the Heathrow Long stay there were cars everywhere and [...]
Networking, selling more and Daleks
The Dalek principle can help you get a new client too. Many business owners fear being focussed in their marketing worried that it will rule some people out. Clarity and focus will help you attract more leads, not less. Knowing what you stand for will help you sell more. It’s a simple message that many [...]
2011 – My 6 favourite social media things
Saving time on Social Media These things hit me round the head in 2011 (thanks to those that introduced them to me). They changed the way I use social media. I’ve used loads them this year, saving time and allowing me to do lots more. So imagine Mary Poppins and read about a few of [...]
Better networking: Strip away the mask.
Networking: Bad hair day, late night, or do you never show personality? I’d like to thank Angie, of AngieandCo, for this guest blog. I met her networking, know her as an excellent graphic designer. I was recently talking to her about networking and the result is below. We have to put on a mask for [...]
How to turn away customers
4 ideas to help your sell more, from a recent bad customer experience of mine. The free trial There is a great trend in the software industry, you can start a free trial for many of the products that you’re thinking of buying. It’s great because, normally, having completed such a trial people are more [...]
3 ideas to improve the value of the good ideas in your business.
You’re only as good as your last result? You got the whole business excited about your idea and then they forgot? Has that ever happened to you? Sometimes it’s not about having more good ideas, it’s about doing something with the ones that you’ve already had. Improving the durability of the good ideas in your [...]
Exterminate.
Do Daleks get the most out of people that work for them? Does force and your temper get the most out of people? I recently write an article about wet monkeys, to which one person said to me, “if my staff were like that I’d lose my rag”. That got me thinking, as I’ve been [...]
Are your staff like wet monkeys?
Have you ever wondered why people do the things they do, when you didn’t ask them to? This is a simple parable, but it’s a fun picture to hold in your head. There is a cage containing five monkeys. In the cage is a set of stairs and there is a banana on a string [...]
