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Oct 23rd
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Self directed effort is the best kind
May 11th
How much are you paying for a drill sergeant?
Perhaps you can burn 500 calories on the treadmill before you give up for the day. With a personal coach, though, you could do 700. The trainer gets you to exert more effort.
You wake up on a Monday morning after a long hard weekend of misbehaving. You have a splitting headache. You can easily call in sick, no one will freak out. But then you remember that there’s a $500 bonus at stake if you keep your attendance perfect. You make the effort because someone else is bribing you.
On the playground, it’s tempting to rip into a kid who stole the swing from you. You’re about to whack him, but then you see your mom watching. With a great deal of effort, you walk away.
Effort’s ephemeral, hard to measure and incredibly difficult to deliver on a regular basis. So we hire a trainer or a coach or a boss and give up our freedom and our upside for someone to whip us into shape. Obviously, you give up part of what you create to the trainer/coach/boss in exchange for their oversight.
Has it become a crutch? Are you addicted to a taskmaster, to someone else’s to do list, to short term external rewards that sell your long-term plans short? If no one is watching, are you helpless, just a web surfing, time wasting couch potato? Who owns the extra work you do now that you’re being directed?
There’s an entire system organized around the idea that we’re too weak to deliver effort without external rewards and punishment. If you only grow on demand, you’re selling yourself short. If you’re only as good as your current boss/trainer/sergeant, you’ve given over the most important thing you have to someone else.
The thing I care the most about: what do you do when no one is looking, what do you make when it’s not an immediate part of your job… how many push ups do you do, just because you can?
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Dec 2nd
Pay with a Tweet: a new kind of marketing
Oct 11th
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What Kind of Business Should I Start?
Oct 4th
What Kind of Business Should I Start?
This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
The title to this post is a question I receive often. So many people want to start their own business these days but, are at a loss as to what to do.
It’s a tough question really and one that needs to be approached as many things in life – from a strategic standpoint first.
See a lot of folks just want to jump right into tactics – what’s hot, what can I make money doing, what are my skills, what’s my background – but that’s only part of the equation.
The first thing you must answer is this – What do I want out of life?
I know, I know, it’s only the biggest, scariest, hardest question on the planet and that’s why so many people just skip it.
Here’s how that applies to your business though.
There are two kinds of businesses, generally, from a strategic standpoint – the business of passion and purpose and the business of profit and practicality.
Now, when these two kinds of business merge, well, that’s just plain magic, but you may need to decide which kind you’re going start, before you do.
A purpose and passion business is one you start because you love to do something, your business itself provides the higher purpose for you life, and maybe you would do this business even if you didn’t get paid. People who are fulfilled in these businesses often make lots of money too but, it’s not really why they do it.
This is a tough call because sometimes your passion isn’t all the profitable or practical. For example, I would love to open up a breakfast only restaurant in my neighborhood or a create some sort of pet friendly bar with a great big outdoor wrap around porch but, there’s no way I would consider getting into that business. (It’s not a bad business; just not one I think I could pull off)
The flip side though is the business that turns up on some research, taps into a coming trend and looks like a sure thing in the business plan – only, it’s all about the money.
This kind of business can be incredibly profitable, but if it’s not, it will feel like a really bad, low paying, job.
Again, the magic is in fusing these two strategic objectives into a business you love to go to day in and day out that also has the greatest chance of allowing you to make enough income to get what you want out of life.
Assuming you’re considering starting a business to do something you’re passionate about, below is a list of questions you should consider to make that passion pay.
- Can you create a product or service that fills a need you have?
- Is there already a proven market for what you want to do?
- Are there healthy competitors doing what you want to do?
- Can you find a way to stand out from others doing what you want to do?
- Can you leverage the Internet to generate low cost leads?
- Can you make 200-300% profit on what you want to do?
- Can you sell a package rather than time?
- Is there a similar business you can go to work for?
- Can you start small and grow?
- Can you see what your picture perfect day in your business would look like in 3-5 years?
So, what questions did you ask yourself on the way to deciding what business to start?
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Sep 23rd
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5 Reasons Why Facebook Places Is Kind of a Big Deal
Aug 19th
5 Reasons Why Facebook Places Is Kind of a Big Deal
This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Facebook announced what can clearly be called a “me too” location check in function yesterday, but hey, when you have half a billion people using something, even a copied innovation can have huge immediate impact. Facebook Places is a smart-phone location check-in feature that allows users to share their location, find the location of their friends, and discover new places based on other Facebook user recommendations – much like Loopt, Foursquare and Yelp! provide.
To get started, you’ll need the most recent version of the Facebook application for iPhone. (As of last night you had to search and download as it was not showing up as an update) You also can access Places from touch.facebook.com if your mobile browser supports HTML 5 and geolocation. A lot of information about how this service works is still evolving (Only available in the US right now as well) but you here’s the current FAQ page from Facebook
This is a big deal because location check-in has exploded as a habitual way of connecting and it stands to reason that a large number of people using Gowalla and Foursquare today will migrate their location check-ins to the network where they spend most of their time already – Facebook. This move kind of makes my status as the Mayor of my local coffee shop look a whole lot less interesting.
Facebook seems very invested in this function and were adamant about the fact that users will have the ability to set and restrict privacy using Places. By default your checkins will go to your profile and news stream. If you want to change who can see your checkins, go to your account’s privacy settings. You’ll see that “Places I check in” is by default shared with “Friends Only.” You can change who views your checkins from this area.
Why It’s a Big Deal for Business
- Facebook is building a suite of advertising tools that will allow you to list, claim and advertise your place on Facebook
- You no longer have to educate your customers – they all know what Facebook is
- People checking in at your business are naturally telling some part of the word about your business
- Offering coupons and special offers for people who check in is a natural way to tap the power of using online tools to drive offline sales.
- Data that you can collect on users and amount of times they checkin will prove extremely valuable in tracking customers and advertising spend
If your business is not already listed on Places you can add it by following these instructions. The roll-out is a bit spotty across the US today, but my guess is that by next week people will be Places happy.
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Exclusive first look: A new kind of social media news reader: FlipBoard
Jul 21st
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Self marketing might be the most important kind
Jul 19th
What story do you tell yourself about yourself?
I know that marketers tell stories. We tell them to clients, prospects, bosses, suppliers, partners and voters. If the stories resonate and spread and seduce, then we succeed.
But what about the story you tell yourself?
Do you have an elevator pitch that reminds you that you’re a struggling fraud, certain to be caught and destined to fail? Are you marketing a perspective and an attitude of generosity? When you talk to yourself, what do you say? Is anyone listening?
You’ve learned through experience that frequency works. That minds can be changed. That powerful stories have impact.
I guess, then, the challenge is to use those very same tools on yourself.
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