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Testing 1-2-3… How To Get Your Audience To Embrace Your Content

It's been a few years since I've been up on stage as a musician. I've been in a lot of bands over my years and the last two were called the Pretzel Boys and Dough. The Pretzel Boys was a full band with drums and PA systems. Dough was a two-man acoustic band. The reason…

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Want To Improve Your Business? Here Is My Know-Like-Trust System!

Let me start off by asking you a question. Do you want to improve your business? Well if you do, I'm going to ask you to start thinking differently about know, like, and trust. Now, know, like and trust has been around for years. It's been attributed to people like Mark Twain, Stephen Covey, and…

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Exercise Your Business – Get A Running Start To Deliver On Your Goals

I started out yesterday morning, looking for some inspiration. It was the day I was running my second 5K in three years. This race was canceled last year. A few years ago I finished my first race in almost 40 years. I ran it in about 42 minutes, which was kind of disappointing. This year,…

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Dunbar's Number… And Why It's Better To Be Part Of A Tribe Than An Influencer

I was scrolling through Facebook, and one ad caught my eye. It said, “I didn't think much of LinkedIn until I got 150 prospects.” And at the top, it says, “I completely stopped cold calling and got 150 prospects.” Well, common logic tells me that prospects are another way to say you are cold calling,…

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Vanity Fair, Unfair Vanity, and Vanity Metrics

A while back, I was talking about Cancel Culture on The Bacon Podcast episode 654. What I was talking about was canceling subscriptions. I was going through some of my accounting this weekend and noticed I was paying $10 a month for a newspaper I wasn't reading. Checked with my wife, she wasn't reading it…

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Yes And vs Yes But – When to Let Go Of Your Buts

Today I want to talk about the word “YES”. Now the word yes alone is a very positive word but, a lot of times the word yes has an addendum to it such as yes and, or yes but. Today I want to help you know when you should be letting go of your buts…

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