A painful mistake that gives me grief and sleepless nights is working with people who don’t share the same values. Your WHY is not just some fuzzy thing that motivational speakers say. For example, I surround myself only with considerate people who want to help others. I accidentally violated this rule this week and paid […]
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I paid him a retainer up front and you can see what happened here. He didn’t get around to advising us, but did review some initial documents before deciding he didn’t want to take the case. We gave him an opportunity to make things right, but he preferred to pocket the money. So that’s why
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This is a guest post by Nick Jaworski of Circle Social Inc. Owning multiple 7-figure digital marketing agencies, I never found the typical social media crowd very helpful. There are a lot of smoke and mirrors in the digital marketing world. Fake gurus are everywhere, but even the bonafide have never appealed to me very
If you want to know how to run a 7 figure agency, follow Tristan Parmley. Like me, he’s had personal struggles and been burned in business dealings. He’s one of the hardest workers I know. He ran 10.1 in the 100 meters, by the way, setting his university record on his way to being a champion
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A friend of mine recently came to me for help. He entered into a contract with an acquaintance for roughly the following: producing videos on a monthly basis of him explaining what he does and how he helps people– building, hosting, and maintaining a new (second) website for me (he owns the URL)– onsite and
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Know how to instantly tell an expert from an amateur? The expert spends 90% of their time practicing the fundamentals and only 10% of their time doing “pro” stuff. The amateur spends 90% of their time trying to do the “pro” stuff while ignoring the fundamentals. The amateur marketer chases tricks and hacks. The amateur
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My boss constantly chases me down, wondering where I am or what I’m doing. But that’s because I’m not motivated– and once I get a raise, I then might consider starting to work again. I complain that I don’t know what’s going on in the company, but I’m also not around to listen and don’t
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I think I’m going to throw up. The number of people selling courses on how to sell a course is mind-boggling. And I’ve forced myself to go through about 20 of the most popular ones to see what they’re doing. Here’s what I’ve learned if you’re curious: + 95% of this is hype designed to
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