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Where the heck are the customers, already? Getting it on with your knight in shining armor
That pretty website you built, that killer copy, it isn’t going to make customers come. Entrepreneurs, like young single girls waiting for the day their prince will come, often dream that if they prepare enough, if they put out the right signals that customers will swoop in and save them from their life of cubicle…
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Get over it. That potential client won’t call. Move on, but do this next time.
Caution! Heavy, but incredibly useful reading ahead. How would you feel to know that the business card you so hopefully designed, the one you handed to that “potential client” you met at last night’s mixer, is now sitting on the floorboard of his car, awaiting its final destination at the bottom of a gas station…
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Quick! Your life needs CPR. Close the laptop and resuscitate !
Last night my husband rocked my world Too often, I don’t give him credit for understanding what I do. Too often, I am right. My husband works A LOT. He travels to far, far away places EXTENSIVELY. And for REALLY long periods of time. Then he wants to Skype or FaceTime me continually, interrupting my…
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How one man makes millions, swilling wine and telling stories
Wandering around the Rancho Sisquoc vineyard on a sunny Monday afternoon it occurred to me that if ever there was a dream job for me it would be getting paid buckets of money for sipping wine and telling wild stories. Amazingly enough, this job exists, but it doesn’t belong to me. It does belong to…
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Get rid of fear, learn how to swagger
Tony Horton doesn’t walk into a room, he swaggers He doesn’t just enter a room, he controls it. Of course he does, right? He’s Tony Horton, inventor of P90X, creator of chiseled bodies and possessor of abs I’d like to use as a tongue scraper. Amazingly, before he became Tony “Swagger” Horton he was just…
