Tony Hsieh, the founder and CEO of Zappos died a couple of weeks ago in a house fire. He sold Zappos to Amazon for $1 billion and remained CEO until he stepped down in August. The end of his life was tragic. A spiral of alcohol, drugs and extreme behavior ended his life at just 46. Hsieh was a More…
50 weeks straight. I started riding my 20-year-old exercise bike/clothes rack using the Peloton app 50 weeks ago. I made a deal with myself. If I’m still doing rides in June, I’ll reward myself with the Peloton bike (a hefty investment). On my birthday in late June, I completed my 100th Peloton ride and ordered a bike. This week I’m More…
People are always asking me what they should post on LinkedIn. Your options are:Text with an image and hashtagsPlain textVideo less than 10 minutes longLinkedIn LiveContent with links in the commentsAny combination of the aboveThis week I started using LinkedIn Live. I also posted some short video tips and posted plain text content. Here’s the results of More…
When I started my IT consulting practice in the late ‘90s I used to shut down my business from Thanksgiving until January. I assumed nobody would want to start new IT projects in December. People were busy wrapping up the final quarter of the year and coasting into the holidays. I thought the last thing they wanted More…
The late, great Gary Halbert said it first.Amy Cuddy reinforced the notion in her best-selling book, Presence.What are they saying?People decide if they’re going to buy from you in the first 2 seconds.It’s not a conscious decision.It’s a subconscious decision.They spend the rest of their time justifying their decision.Most of the time they go with their More…
Without a clear, solid offer, your sales will suffer. It’s more competitive than ever so creating a compelling offer will separate you from your competition. Here’s the replay of my Creating an Offer They Can’t Refuse webinar. This week we start the hot seats in the Freedom Accelerator Academy where our group will give you feedback on your More…
When I worked at Cellular One in the early ‘90s, our CEO had a saying: “It’s the little things that matter.” After a meeting, she would be the last one to leave the conference room. She would make sure the chairs were all pushed in. No chairs blocked the walkways. I helped her push the chairs More…
You’re chatting with a prospect through LinkedIn messaging.They’re ready to get on the phone with you.You can:Send them your phone number orSend them a link to your calendarWhat if you could jump on a Zoom call right from the LinkedIn Message?Now you can!Watch this video to see how easy this is.
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I’m seeing more political posts on LinkedIn. It saddens me to see the Facebook political cesspool spilling over to LinkedIn. I’ve pretty much abandoned Facebook because I can’t stand the bickering and flood of fake content tearing our country apart. People aimlessly sharing content designed to polarize our country. There’s no way most of the content could be true More…
I usually don’t share replays of my Freedom Accelerator Academy calls outside of the members area but this is one you need to see. Courtney Berg is an HR consultant looking to expand her business. She didn’t email her list for two years and moved the list from Infusionsoft to SharpSpring. Her first email to her list from More…