Throughout your life, you’ve been sold the idea that to have a successful business you need to build high revenue. That business success is all about making money. This message has been delivered to you in college, at home and even on TV. The concept that your main goal and outcome of your business needs to be ensuring that year …
How to Save Yourself When Your Business is Drowning You
Against all the opposition and advice from friends and family, you start a business. You don’t have a choice though, the thought of working for someone else and building their success makes you want to throw up. Overtime your hard work leads to your business taking off and growing faster than you ever thought possible. So now it’s no longer …
5 Tips For Dealing With Rejection More Effectively
Every business can use more sales whether we’re talking about a bootstrapped startup or a fortune 500 company. The problem is that many of these sales are on the other side of a good number of rejections and perhaps a mountain of disinterest as well. Rejection is a daily reality for salespeople, direct marketers and business owners alike. It is …
The Three Things You Need to Deliver on Your Ideas
Have you ever had an idea that you had to bring into the world? A vision of a product or service that you know will change the world. There are many people that have ideas, but only a few actually bring it to life. Some get put off by the people in their life, some lack the patience to go …
The One Thing That’s Holding You Back From Success
Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram all have something in common that undermines the path to your success in life. They are really good at creating distractions and wasting your time with notifications, friends requests, pictures and messages. Though in the moment, those online platforms don’t feel like a waste. That notification/dopamine fix is just what the doctor ordered, feeding your brains …
Finding Your Definition of Success – the ‘Three Levels of Why’ Approach
As business people and entrepreneurs, we’re often moving too fast to stop and consider what success actually means to us, let alone how we know when we’ve achieved it? It’s a tough but important question to ask, and answer. That’s why I was so glad to have the chance to talk to International Business Success Coach and Inspirational Speaker, Vanessa …
Turn Your Podcast Marketing Up To 11
OK, you’ve created the greatest podcast in the history of humanity. Great guests, top production quality, your sparkling personality in the host’s chair, and yet when you check your stats it’s tumbleweeds. What gives? These days, with podcasting competition getting tougher, it’s not enough to have a great podcast and hope listeners will stumble over it. You’ve got to have …
How to Connect to Your Podcast Audience through Stories
Having a podcast that’s loved by millions of people around the world is something that only a few podcasters manage. And even though these highly successful podcast shows are spread across different themes and tackle different topics, there’s one thing they all have in common. These highly successful podcasts are all brilliant at sharing stories. The ability for a podcaster …
Why Making It about Others Makes You More Successful
Finding a way to stand out in any given field can be a tough thing to do. You’re faced with businesses who’ve been around longer than you, have more cash flow behind them and have big, fancy clients. You could spend a ton of cash on marketing efforts to force your way forward in your industry, or you could save …
Laura Petersen: 6 Copywriting Tweaks That Will Help You Get More Discovery, Distribution and Downloads
We’re podcasters. So how important is it that we know how to write well? Well, it turns out, very important. Laura Petersen is a bestselling author and host of Copy That Pops, a podcast (with nearly 150 episodes) that dishes all the inside information about energising your writing, getting your book published and navigating the chaotic and crowded field of …