Entries Tagged as 'Momentum'

Another Way to Fill a Class

September 15th, 2009 by Mark · 8 Comments

What? Teaching Sells sold out in 12 hours? (Or was it six hours?) Either way, they sold out three quarters of a million dollars in products in less than a day?
Makes you wonder… How do “they” do that?
Earlier this year in my article, “7 Necessaries for Filling a Course“, under the subhead “Allowing More Time [...]

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Tags: 3 Journeys of Marketing · Momentum · Sales & Conversion

About the Business Growth Process

September 1st, 2009 by Mark · 8 Comments

So you read about some way to develop your business, or you take a class, or just have a great conversation with someone who knows what they’re talking about. Then you do something amazing: you actually try to implement what you’ve learned.
And it plops. Fails. Doesn’t look like it did in the cookbook. The waves [...]

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Tags: 3 Journeys of Marketing · Mistakes · Momentum

How a Bigger Small Business Avoids Overwhelm

July 9th, 2009 by Mark · 14 Comments

I have something to confess: Heart of Business is a bigger business. It’s still teeny-weeny compared to the Big Guys. Even an average “small” business, like my family’s business was, does a few million dollars a year.
However, when I think about where we were, actually I was, a few years back, that place many who [...]

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Tags: Business Relationships · Employees · Infrastructure & Systems · Leadership · Momentum · Wing Stretching

How Many People Do You Really Need to Reach?

June 30th, 2009 by Mark · 12 Comments

In my recent journeys on Twitter I’ve seen the extremes from “Get 20,000 followers in 30 days” to “it doesn’t matter how many people you have, what matters is the quality of the connection.”
No, I don’t want to sleazily grab 20,000 people on Twitter, my blog, or email list. Yet it’s totally untrue that numbers [...]

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Tags: 3 Journeys of Marketing · Momentum

Cool Kids, Nerds, and Content-Driven Momentum

June 23rd, 2009 by Mark · 5 Comments

“So what was the leap you made, Mark, from having a just-okay private practice to really experiencing momentum?”
Kate Williams, my collaboratrix at Heart of Business, had put the question to me. She had admitted that although she had years of experience in small business, and although she had helped a university bookstore quadruple sales, she [...]

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Tags: 3 Journeys of Marketing · Making a Difference · Momentum

How to Avoid the Funeral After a Big Breakthrough

June 2nd, 2009 by Mark · 5 Comments

Okay, forget all this organic growth stuff. Let’s say you hit the big time and suddenly dozens, hundreds, even [...]

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Tags: Content Creation · Infrastructure & Systems · Momentum

The Two Easiest Steps to Repeat Clients

March 17th, 2009 by Mark · 19 Comments

Okay, you’ve got two new clients signed up, whew! But then… a newish client completes. And then another one. You’re not ahead at all, you’re right where you started. Oy.
What a treadmill! If only clients would stick around for awhile, you could catch your breath and feel stable. Maybe you’d even work on developing your [...]

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Tags: 3 Journeys of Marketing · Momentum · Sales & Conversion