A lot of my clients struggle when putting together offers for their market. “What would really help them is if they would take the time to set up good accounting systems. But how sexy is that?” “I want to tell my clients to grow and eat their own organic food, but I know they are [...]
Before I interviewed CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, I asked my Twitter followers “What questions do you have for @sivers?” Someone asked “How extensive was his business plan?” When I asked him that question, he started laughing, because the founding of what would become a multi-million dollar powerhouse in the world of independent music distribution [...]
People ask me quite often how I can keep up relationships with so many people as my in-person and virtual network grows. The short answer is: I can’t. It would be pretty impossible to keep track of 22,000 people on Twitter, or what is now hundreds of students and clients. I do, however, get great [...]
What do you want to be when you grow up? What is your thing? What is your niche? What is your major? What will your specialization be in (law) (medicine) (engineering) (art)? Social norms push at us relentlessly to make decisions about a singular work path. Choosing well, we are told, will set us up [...]
Photo by Ivan Martinez, Lift Off 1 Alumni Two years ago, Charlie Gilkey and I met at a social gathering at South by Southwest. We connected immediately, and began to talk about our work coaching creative entrepreneurs. “Coaching is great,” we said to each other, “But can you imagine what would happen if we had [...]
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