Your customers co-own your success. Who do you want to be in business with?
When community invests in an idea, it also co-owns its success. – Nilofer Merchant, 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era Your business is not yours alone. Welcome to the brave new world of co-creation and co-ownership. Here, individualism coexists with collectivism. Here, the results of your ambition rely on your ability to [...]
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Why Burning Bridges Might Be a Better Sales Strategy than Building Them
There are few businesses I work with today that don’t have as one of their goals, “challenge the customer’s comfort zone.” Consider your own business for a minute: is it more beneficial to you for your customer to remain in her comfort zone? or to be pushed beyond her comfort zone? Then consider your customer [...]
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Are you using the greatest asset your business has?
The greatest asset your business has isn’t its products, your experience, the equipment in your studio, or the technology that makes it all go ’round. The greatest asset you have is your ability to connect people. Business has a unique power to bring people together. We have the sense that we have more than a [...]
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Demystifying Business Models For Fun and Profit: how to know whether your business will sink or swim
Last week, Abby Kerr tweeted that, while she’s seen all manner of business blowhards (myself included) wax poetic about motivation, marketing, and productivity, she’s seen very little about actual business development: generating a business model and the like. So I took that as a personal challenge. Thanks, Abby. It’s true. You won’t find much out [...]
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What if slow & steady doesn’t win the race?
Am I good enough? Do I have what it takes? Do I really measure up? When it’s time to level-up in business (or life), those are the first questions that get asked. When you see yourself sitting next to Oprah, lights-camera-ACTION, ready to deliver your message, you say, “some day.” When you imagine your product [...]
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