Category: Simplifying Your Marketing

A Snail Mail Tale

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Up until I turned 40, I never earned a cent that didn’t come in the form of a paycheck. But when I finally left my last job, I realized something: I prefer working alone. Before that, working in restaurants through college and in companies later on, I was always involved in some sort of group effort. It was fine. But for me, I now realize, doing my own thing is a better fit: I make my own hours (10 – 6); I decorate my own office (postmodern college dorm); I […] Click to read more…

The Bigness of Smallness

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According to extensive research that I have been conducting for nearly five minutes, celebrated author Stephen King has a net worth of 500 million dollars. Just to give you a sense of how big a number that is, it’s more than the combined net worth of Taylor Swift ($400 Million) and me. All in all, not bad for a guy who’s earned a living by making things up. Not only that, but it’s a terrific business model since his costs consist of nothing more than a desk, a computer, and (I’m guessing) […] Click to read more…

I Hate You The Least

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(Listen to this post, here.) Wondering how to scare the parents of a college-age child? Here’s all you need to do: sneak up behind them and whisper, “It’s time to fill out the FAFSA for next year.” FAFSA – the Free Application for Federal Student Aid – is a document that needs to be completed annually and for each child, if you hope to reduce the financial burden known as college. It’s a bear, requiring you to gather and decipher any number of financial and tax-related documents of both parent and student. […] Click to read more…

Don’t Launch That Podcast Yet

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(Listen to this post, here.) “Are podcasts worth doing?” That was the question posed to me yesterday by my client Bruce. My response? “It depends.” (Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a consultant.) The reason it depends, is that the answer is not simply a question of whether or not a podcast is a useful marketing tactic for a professional service provider (Hint: it is). You also have to consider what else you are already doing to grow your business and whether adding a podcast on top of that – given the time […] Click to read more…

The Cold Truth

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(Listen to this post, here.) For twenty years, we had a second refrigerator in the basement. It was a piece of junk – dented on one side with a broken shelf and a small freezer. But it was a handy place to keep leftovers and extra supplies. Eventually, though, I realized something very important: the fridge part was almost always near-empty; the freezer part was jammed tight and never quite big enough. And so, when we moved to a new house, we didn’t take that energy-sucking dinosaur with us.  Instead, we […] Click to read more…