“The truth? You can’t handle the truth!” -Jack Nicholson, from A Few Good Men I have a lot of conversations with clients that start out like this: “I really want to do something different than what I am doing now, but I just don’t know what it is” “I have two job opportunities, and am [...]
“The truth? You can’t handle the truth!” -Jack Nicholson, from A Few Good Men I have a lot of conversations with clients that start out like this: “I really want to do something different than what I am doing now, but I just don’t know what it is” “I have two job opportunities, and am [...]
I have been watching the development of Guy Kawasaki’s new venture, Truemors, from the sidelines for the last couple of weeks, fascinated by both the business idea and the reaction in the blogosphere. He took a subtle approach to the launch at first, hinting at the kinds of input he wanted from his blog readers. [...]
I have been watching the development of Guy Kawasaki’s new venture, Truemors, from the sidelines for the last couple of weeks, fascinated by both the business idea and the reaction in the blogosphere. He took a subtle approach to the launch at first, hinting at the kinds of input he wanted from his blog readers. [...]
Any business-minded consultant or entrepreneur will tell you that you need to know about your competition. It is an important part of understanding your market and differentiating yourself from the rest of the herd. But some business owners get so focused on every move a competitor makes that they completely lose focus on their own [...]
I have been wanting to have a “public” conversation about Pat Cadam’s business for close to a decade. And now I finally get to on my radio show today. Pat runs a shop called Pat’s Garage in San Francisco. He services Hondas, Acuras, Subarus and Hybrids. Any semblance of a traditional garage stops there. His [...]
In April, I mentioned that a local business owner, Matt LaPrarie, was trying to organize enough people here in Phoenix for a stop on Seth Godin’s tour to promote his new book, The Dip. The goal was to get a few hundred people interested enough to drop $50, in exchange for 2 hours of presentation [...]
In April, I mentioned that a local business owner, Matt LaPrarie, was trying to organize enough people here in Phoenix for a stop on Seth Godin’s tour to promote his new book, The Dip. The goal was to get a few hundred people interested enough to drop $50, in exchange for 2 hours of presentation [...]
I was reading the Duct Tape Marketing blog yesterday and came across a post that really got my wheels turning … What’s the Measure of One Word? I think I even dreamed about it, one of the unfortunate side effects of being a serial blogger. In it, John Jantsch says: “It’s absolutely essential that you [...]
A blog reader recently wrote an email and shared his frustration at being stuck in a corporate job and hating it, but not knowing how to begin a new business in a new field. To answer this question, in this week’s podcast (6 1/2 minutes — go here to listen), I outlined a number of [...]
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