Monthly Archives: September 2011

What We Believe

Last week I spent a day in Colorado with ETR Publisher, Matt Smith, getting clarity on our mission and vision with Early to Rise. We looked ahead to the future, to the year 2015 specifically, and planned for what the business will look like at that time. A question we kept coming back to was how would we describe Early to Rise ?
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Look at this, not that

Wednesday evening, while wandering around Toronto in a late summer’s gentle drizzle, I learned a valuable lesson from an unlikely source.
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Our Advice to You

Yesterday on a beautiful sunny morning here in downtown Toronto I met up with one of my private information marketing coaching clients. He’s trains professional athletes all summer, and has the winter to spend time on creating his info business
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The One Thing You Should Do in Business

The one thing you should do is get clients and customers. Of course, that’s much easier said than done
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Why You Need to Make Friends with Your Marketing Enemies

Frienemy Marketing: Maximizing Joint Ventures and Other Business Opportunities For Increased Visibility, Sales and Leads By Wendy Montes de Oca, MBA With the economic climate as crazy as it’s been, now’s a great time to look to your ‘friendly’ competition for opportunities to help grow your list and add extra revenues to your bottom line.
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Overcoming Fear of Failure

It’s amazing how we often are our own worst enemies, and how it’s really us who hold ourselves back from reaching our goals.
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Cross-Cultural Exam #9: Boomer v. Xer. (With PRIZE!)

Monday, 8:28pm Reno, NV “ Just take those old records off the shelf, I’ll sit n’ listen to ‘em by myself… ” (Bob Seger) Howdy… At the end of this post, I’ll explain how you can win a bitchin’ prize that will make you the envy of all your friends forever. First, though — let’s learn something about marketing to humans, whadya say? Here’s two quick “ how to deal with the screaming chaos ” tips for everyone in business today who’s just a tad freaked-out at the way things seem to changing so damned FAST: Screaming Chaos-Dealing Tip #1: If you’re older, you need to cultivate solid relationships with younger folks who can help you understand the Zeitgeist of the dominant culture out there
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Your Sheltered Life

If you take a second to think about it, the fact that you’re sitting here, reading this email on your computer, or Ipad, or even your smartphone, means that things have probably worked out for you in life. And yes, that even goes for those of us that are struggling in business or even out of work
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The 5% Solution

Do You Know This About Yourself? Last week my Ipad crashed and required a trip back to the Apple store. I paid one of my assistants to take it
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Why You Should Do the Opposite of Normal

This is one of my favorite times of the year. The start of the school season and the changing of the colors have always signified another “new beginning”, not unlike January 1st or the first warm weekend of the summer
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