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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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How Using Mixed Emotions Can Emotionally Charge Your Marketing Messages

I recently had an interesting call with a potential client where we went back and forth getting to know each other. In the process, she said to me, “I want to be upfront with you and let you know that I've had some bad experiences with people doing lead generation for my business.” And I…

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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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Creating Content From A Philosophical – Philanthropic – Propaganda Perspective

Lately, I've been having a renaissance of sorts. Now, I have not been getting up on scaffolding and painting chapels. What I've been doing is listening to audiobooks, and I find them on Blinkist. I've talked about this before. It's basically Cliffs Notes for books in audio form. I could start off with something like…

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If You Want To Grow Your Business – Network Better

It's been about a year since this pandemic hit the United States. It's been a wild ride. I think all of us are missing hugs, and meetings, and networking, and in-person human interaction of all kinds. In order to get back to a little bit of what I consider to be normal, vaccination is going…

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