After putting it off for months, I head in for surgery on my ACL, tomorrow, Saturday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
I actually tore my ACL back in January but being the stubborn person that I am, I kept skiing until now.
And it’s true, if you’re bull-headed enough, no matter how bad the pain is you can keep going, like I did.
But is that a good idea? Read More »
A few years back, I was out on the ski slopes in Vermont, following my son Evan down an icy trail. I got going a bit too fast and took a fall and landed head first on the rock hard snow.
When I got up, I was a bit dazed, and Evan asked me if I realized I was bleeding. (I hadn’t.) It was just a trickle, so I… Read More »
“I am in the e-commerce industry and I’m wondering: What’s more important? A killer website with awesome pictures? Or a decent website with decent pictures, and killer blog and social media content to drive people to your OKAY website?” Daniel, Peak Coffee & Tea
So which is it, which is the most important to the success of your ecommerce business? Read More »
Just a few years back, something odd happened. For years, the internet with all its potential sat on the sidelines.
Yes, we were all using it. We set up our websites. We created our emails. We even started to… Read More »
In one of my previous posts, I showed you how to increase your response rates overnight—simply by targeting the right prospects.
That alone can have a huge impact your bottom-line profits. But there’s something else that’s just as powerful. Read More »
Want more prospects hungry to buy? Want to know the key to keeping quality clients knocking down your door again and again? This year as you indulge in stuffing, cranberry sauce you might be surprised to discover, a marketing genius right in between the gravy and mashed potatoes.
Find out what the noble Turkey knows about marketing and how he (or is it she?) gets a whole country salivating to sit down for dinner year after year.
Discover what Turkeys know about marketing >> Read More
When PR people complain to me about the Customers from Hell, I always try to help.
At some point in the conversation, I’m not surprised to hear them say, “I should have trusted my gut.”
Indeed.
Debbie Bermont, president of Source Communications, a marketing consulting firm, says trusting your gut is one of seven reasons to say no to new business. Read More »
Here’s a strange story for you.
A while ago I wrote an e-mail for a firm selling investment advice.
They took forever to get the damn thing out and never told us how it did, but one day sent us an e-mail asking us to adapt it for another firm’s list with whom they had a deal.
But by accident we saw two revealing insights into why so much marketing is bad. Read More »
Two main factors will have a major impact on how successfully you run your small business, especially in a down economy. These two elements will certainly determine how you respond to the challenges and opportunities that you will encounter in today’s tough economy.
The first factor is the thoughts you think. One of the things that influence the kind of thoughts you think is the information you take in on a daily basis. As a business owner or manager, you must take charge of the thoughts you think. The “news” you listen to on the radio or watch on television can sway how you look at the circumstances you face. Read More »
Not long ago I was speaking at an event here in London run by Perry Marshall, the Adwords wizard.
Not surprisingly, nearly all the attendees were on-line marketers.
I asked them some questions: “Do any of you watch TV? Go to the movies? Read newspapers? Magazines?” Read More »
