Shame can keep us from doing what is best for us and often lead us to disastrous paths as a character in a movie I saw recently experienced. When you speak to your customers are you identifying where they might be too embarrassed to ask for help and so making it comfortable for them to do so with you… and finally have the solutions they so desired.
We are often passionate and very knowledgeable about what we provide. It’s good to know what we are doing but it can be major trap when we fall into the curse of knowledge and assume our audience knows as much as we do, or are further along the journey than they really are. Overcome this curse and see your conversions begin to skyrocket.
Snake Oil Branding Bats are a scourge for modern entrepreneurs as they manipulate and sell them worthless solutions around vanity measures that do nothing for the underlying business. Read in this article to see what one of these “rebranding” victims look like.
Accountability and measuring employee performance is critical but when do you take it too far and it becomes a liability that threatens the business itself. Read this example.. based on a true story but details changed and some light literary license taken.
False Messiahs and Slick Salemen are the expensive vampires hunting each business owners and looking to sell them the dream of a quick fix or solution regardless of whether it will work or is even appropriate. You’ll save countless hours and money in knowing how to identify and avoid the false messiahs who will do all they can to try to stick their claws in you and convert you.
Can we learn from depraved moments in history. In fact we can. What is scary is what allowed ordinary people to become professional killers and how they rationalized it away. This Rationalisation mechanism is what we have to identify and address when it comes to our business. Because often it traps us in routines and practices that at best keep us stuck and at worst set us up for failure.
Once again we see the finest in cold emails form people actually getting paid to deliver this crap. I’m being nice and not revealing this person’s full name and company but the email is his. And for someone whose promise is to give me tailored content…. It’s generic and plain stupid.
The cliché getting hit by a bus may be in need of getting hit by a bus itself. Only 6,000+ people have bene hit by bus in 20 years. Divorce on the other hand claims nearly 50% of all marriages where there is an entrepreneur. So it makes sense not to prepare for divorce but have a business that is prepared at all times – for every opportunity or D challenge.