For those of you who’ve been getting these emails over the past few years and especially for the folks that know me personally, you know that I’m not someone who is a cheerleader and spends a lot of time trying to make everyone feel good about themselves.
Stop Trying To Sell “Easy”
I’ve had a few people raise with me today the idea about selling stuff to their customers on the idea that “it will be easy”. You’re trying to convince them that somehow if they buy this thing you’re offering them, their lives will get magically better and their progress towards their desired outcome will be “easy”.
Introducing Automation To Your Online Business
My bias is always towards technology. It’s what I do pretty much every day, I noodle around with lots of high-end technology and tell people how it can make their businesses perform better. I help people build strategies to take them from where they are today to the nice, shiny new SkyNet style future that things like Cloud and Data Centre Automation can deliver when implemented correctly.
Simplicity and Elegance
For the last few weeks, I’d been looking forward to yesterday and today because I’d planned to take the two days off my regular job, give myself a four day weekend and get stuck into some project or another in the business and bang it out during that time.
Doing Dumb Stuff
Some days it is like the heavens open up and deliver me a bounty of topics to write about and today was one of those days. In fact, one particular thing I saw was so strange that it probably give me a couple days worth of topics to go over – it was like cracking an egg into a frypan and getting a double yolk.
Your Business Is Not Just About You
Today I was walking down the street in Sydney at lunchtime. It’s a big city and on Valentine’s Day, it can be pretty hectic with married men who’ve forgotten to organize anything for their wives rushing around trying to buy flowers or whatever to avoid looking like muppets when they get home.
Managing Risk For Simple Folks
When you decide to setup your own business whether it’s a full-time thing, a side hustle or just a hobby, you’ve made the decision to take on some risk.
The Challenge of Managing Your IP
One thing that always irritates me is when someone asks to “pick my brain”. The reality is that people who are smart or successful that I know rarely do this – they usually just ask if they can buy some of my time to run some ideas past me.
The Days When It’s Just Not Happening
This week I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting to sleep. Every night over the past few days, 11pm rolls around and I’m just not tired. I go to bed and just lay there or I stay up until like 2am reading and watching TV.
Peddling Platitudes
At the moment, I’m listening to the new book by Inc writer Jeff Haden entitled, “The Motivation Myth”. The premise of the book is that it will show you that external motivation isn’t something you need to inspire you or motivate you to act and be successful.