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The Gold Mine

Making money is not as hard as people make it out to be. All you have to do is find out what people need and serve them. In my case, I noticed a lot of my clients were using strategy sessions to try and figure out what to do to generate leads. I responded to […]

Exploding My Personal Brand

Take a second and look at how much content your brand is producing. I’ll wait. How’d you do? To be honest, it was a trick question. The answer is that no matter how much you’re putting out, it’s not enough. I know that because I’m not putting out enough content, and I’ve got 126 episodes […]

I Know Where All Your Customers Are

How many ads do you have running on Facebook right now? How about your direct competition? Chances are you don’t have any and neither do they. If you do, hey, kudos to you. If not, well, why not? Television, print, radio, billboards…those are strategies that worked 30 years ago. Today, everyone’s eyeballs are on the […]

Live-Stream Live is Alive

What was the last major purchase you or your company made? I’m willing to bet you made that purchase from someone you trusted, right? But here’s the thing: where was the origin of that relationship? For a small business, forming those relationships is crucial. There’s so much information out there today, data can’t be your […]

Stop Doing Nothing and Do Everything

Marketing is one of the most difficult areas for many business owners to grasp because it’s so flexible. There are so many paths you can take. You’re probably seen a dozen or so marketing companies on Facebook all trying to sell you marketing tools. Unfortunately, this then becomes a problem of human behaviour: if a […]

Learning Marketing from Die Hard

Every business owner must be telling stories about themselves in the marketplace. That’s the best way to attract attention, which if you’ll remember, is the entire point of marketing in the first place. That means mastering marketing also means mastering the art of story-telling. But we don’t need to re-invent the wheel to do it. […]

Marketing 101 • Daily Genius 134

It’s been too long, everyone. How are you? Kids are good? Still getting out to walk the dog? Know much about marketing? Luckily for you, I gave a talk recently explaining the basics of marketing. Simply put, any marketing done without knowledge of human behaviour will fail. Marketing is, at its core, communication between you […]

Your Short-Term Marketing is Killing Your Business

Are you taking shortcuts with your marketing? Marketing is actually a two-step process. Business owners have a tendency to skip right to step two without thinking about the proper order of operations. Step two is making offers. But there’s something essential you have to do first. That first step is building an audience. What does […]

Stop Attracting Broken Customers

It is much easier to market a product to someone who already wants a solution to a problem rather than to someone who is unaware they even have a problem. Here’s the difference: the former type of person is already looking into what they can do about said problem. Maybe they’ve even tried a few […]