From the category archives:

Inspiration

The Man and the Forest of Experience

August 17, 2010

It’s been a while but let’s find that cup of cof­fee again (or a fresh one for that mat­ter) and join our hero and see how his quest to Mount Suc­cess is com­ing along. Do you think he’s going to make it? What else is he going to have to get through to reach the […]

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The Man and The Swamp of Failure

July 27, 2010

Today we con­tinue our story with the Man and his jour­ney to Mount Suc­cess. He and his faith­ful horse have just taken their first steps into the Swamp of Fail­ure. Let’s see how our hero does. If you are just join­ing in this story, you may want to start from the begin­ning. Here is what’s posted […]

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The Man and The Plains of Overwhelming

July 19, 2010

This a con­tin­u­a­tion from a pre­vi­ous post. If you haven’t read the first part go here. Grab that cup of cof­fee, let’s see how our hero fares in the Plains of Over­whelm­ing. The Plains of Over­whelm­ing The man makes his way into the tall grass. He glances one more time behind him as the rolling […]

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The Man and His Quest to Mount Success

July 13, 2010

Grab your­self a cup of cof­fee and sit back an relax. I have a story to tell you. There was a man that was given a quest. This man lived in a time of drag­ons, knights, and other myth­i­cal crea­tures that no longer exist. To say the least his quest was going to be a dangerous […]

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What a Stop Smoking Book is Teaching Me About People

June 29, 2010

As you learn the art of mar­ket­ing and sales, you’ll soon start notic­ing things about peo­ple as well. Learn­ing how peo­ple feel and think is very ben­e­fi­cial to becom­ing bet­ter at mar­ket­ing. At it’s heart, mar­ket­ing is a peo­ple busi­ness. If you learn their fears and wor­ries and you have a way to solve that, […]

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Is It Really Worth it to Always Be Accessible? How About Not Accessible?

June 22, 2010

Tech­nol­ogy has come leaps and bounds over the last few years. There is some­thing to make every­thing you can think of more con­ve­nient and some things you may not have thought of. Being acces­si­ble is impor­tant for mar­ket­ing as well. And, again, with today’s tech­nol­ogy, you can be acces­si­ble all the time. If some­one needs […]

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How to Make Your Business Stand Out Like Jeff Dunham

June 11, 2010

Awhile back I wrote a post about tak­ing that extra step to stand out from the crowd. Basi­cally it comes down to the fact that one sim­ple lit­tle change can make you and/or your busi­ness stand out from every­one else. Even if your offer­ing the same thing. Jeff Dun­ham has done just that with his […]

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What Does Composing Music Have to Do With Marketing?

June 10, 2010

I’ve men­tioned before how lessons in life can be applied to mar­ket­ing and busi­ness as well as how lessons in mar­ket­ing can be applied to life. Once again I’ve run into this cross­road. I’ve always had a par­tic­u­lar pas­sion for music. I’ve lis­tened to it all my life and have been around it when people […]

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Working Out and Running a Business

May 21, 2010

In the last cou­ple weeks I have decided to take the next step and get back in shape. It’s been an inter­est­ing jour­ney so far and it’s made me real­ize just how out of shape I really am. It’s quite sad really. But I’m work­ing on fix­ing that whole issue. The thing I wanted to bring […]

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There Are No Limits

April 7, 2010

How do you think peo­ple like Michael Jor­dan, Elvis Pres­ley, or William Shake­speare became so good at what they do? They reached for the stars and never stopped improv­ing them­selves. “This is good enough” wasn’t in their vocab­u­lary. They were never sat­is­fied, always strive for bet­ter. They never put a limit on them­selves. Take what […]

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