The Death of the Specialist

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to find horror stories by freelancers about working with nightmare clients… but it’s much harder to find business owner horror stories about freelancers? It’s not as though they don’t exist. I’ve heard my share of them. In fact, one of the reasons that Measurable Genius exists is […]

Facebook Tracking & Custom Conversions

Knowing how to track, read, and analyze your Facebook advertising data is essential to your success. With the right foresight and a bit of planning, Facebook gives us the tools to measure what actions our visitors are taking when they take action on our ads. This is the eighth episode in our 10 part series […]

How Your Labels Hold You Back

Morally labeling things is a one-way ticket to emotional fragility. Because moral labels are absolute and one-sided, whenever someone does something that isn’t congruent with the label, we’ll react accordingly. Here’s an example: let’s say you label “spilling coffee” as a bad thing. Because it has that label, whenever it happens, you’re going to be […]

Be a Sniper, Not Infantry

Being a service company is all about being the best it is at what you do. And at Measurable Genius, we do everything. This morning I was at Phil’s with my MAPS team, and we talked about what makes a great service company, who is accountable for our client’s success, and the men even challenged […]

Deferred Burdens

Could your customers do what you do themselves? Probably. But they don’t want to do it. They don’t want accountability. They know they won’t be any good at it. They just want someone to take care of it for them. They don’t want it half-finished or to be the middleman.