All Entries in the "Networking" Category
Learning To Be A Connector
I didn’t see it.
It was there — plain as day but I didn’t notice it — too caught in in furthering my own goals. Too worried about how I was going to grow my own revenues.
I missed a connection.
A chance to grow someone elses revenues. A chance to further someone elses goals. It was someone [...]
Marketing With Rabbit Ears
The fundamental difference between marketing today and marketing 10 years ago is that your audience CONTROLS the conversation. This means that with today’s technologies, they can turn you ON or turn you OFF.
As a result, smart marketers are looking for ways to cause their target market to SEEK their marketing message. This is done by [...]
Free Saint Louis Internet Marketing Meet Up
Would you love to have a forum where you can learn and discuss techniques that are working and NOT working in the marketing of your tiny business?
Introducing the Tiny Business, Mighty Profits meet up Group. If you are in Saint Louis, MO (or nearby) we will be meeting monthly and holding our first meet up [...]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Who do you want as a neighbor? Do you know?
If you know who you want to be associated with – that is half the battle. Let the power of online and off-line networking techniques find those people and allow you to build a relationship with them.
Become neighbors.
Look to become neighbors with several different groups:
Customers
Prospects
Competitors (They [...]
Once a Day And Your Business Will Grow — Scouts Honor
When is the last time you did something during business hours that benefited you or your business in NO way?
Of course we can debate the fact that NO ONE ever does anything that doesn’t give them some benefit. Perhaps you believe that (at its core) all actions have some motive behind them.
People donate to charities [...]
The Most Important Word In The “Marketing Dictionary”
What is the most important term in the “Marketing Dictionary” in the age of the Internet.
Remarkable – worthy of notice or attention.
Seth Godin, in his must-read marketing book “Purple Cow”, lays out the challenge that is before all of us as tiny business owners — we must find a way to be different.
Actually different isn’t [...]
[Short Video] The Power of Permission
I gave a one hour presentation to the Business Owners International group here in Saint Louis last week.
The video below is a short (2 minute) piece that contains a message that is critical to understand.
The Power Of Permission
For so many years we (the consumer) have lost control of the messages that we receive. Marketing messages [...]
Skate With Your Head Up
There is a saying in hockey — “Skate With Your Head Up.”
I learned this the hard way, I was laid out while skating at full speed and staring straight down at the puck.
Never saw it coming. Painful.
This is the last time I ever played full contact ice hockey. The truth is that I [...]
50% Percent of The People You Meet Are Full of Crap And The Danger This Presents To Your Business
It has to be said.
I meet a lot of people at both physical networking events and online and approximately one out every two people I meet are full of crap.
They don’t do what they say they do, they don’t have the experience they say they have, they don’t know the things they say they do [...]
Get Out There! 3 Common Business Start Up Roadblocks
I talk about initiative, bravery and getting out of your comfort zone quite a bit on this blog.
Why? Because these are necessary components to becoming a Tiny and Mighty business.
I speak with many tiny business owners and I find that there is only one difference between those that are succesful and those that could be [...]
