Wish You Were Here
So if you - or your clients - are getting some rough reviews or less than glowing comments on your content, products or services, take heart:
There are many, many more people who loved it than will ever make the time to write about how happy it made them.
Become a Great Public Speaker With These Quick Tips
If you want to reach the next level of your career, you can’t gloss over your public speaking skills. Successful designers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals must present their ideas effectively and defend their work convincingly to an audience.
Are You a Deer in the Headlights?
Who says we have to limit ourselves? Who says we can’t go to where the customer landscape is a little different?
Are You Adrift?
When we build a business, we set off expecting fair winds to guide us to lands of plenty. But the sea of competition is cruel. Brands can break, strategies can wear thin. Marketing holes need to be plugged, opportunities can pass us by.
How To Set Up A Kick-Ass Mastermind Group
My interactions and participation in masterminds have accounted for an estimated 20% of my new clients over the last 3 years.
Top 5 Reasons To Join A Mastermind Group
The only way to know is to join a mastermind and find out. I am certain you will feel the compounding effect of having 4 or more brains working on your business, more meaningful professional connections, and accountability. Don’t wait another minute.
Want To Be Likable? Do This.
When you ask questions and show genuine interest in someone it actually makes you seem more interesting, accomplished and likable.
The New Normal: 5 Reasons Why Freelancing Is The Future Of Work
Freelancing is like a permission slip to grow as much as you desire professionally. In fact, in recent years the historical drawbacks of freelancing; lack of loyalty, lack of consistency and exposure to market shifts and economic forces have started to look less like a downside and more like a competitive advantage.
The Big Payoff: The ROI of Personal Branding
Personal branding is no longer a by-product of being rich and famous - for some, personal branding is a way to become rich and famous.
Why I Am A Cow
The “24/7 entrepreneurial hustle” mentality has buried itself in the collective business consciousness over the last few years.
No Brand Is An Island
There comes a time in the growth of any business when it pays to reach out for help.
Your Success is Real: 10 Ways to Conquer Impostor Syndrome
Here’s a phrase that sends chills: “ You don’t know what you’re doing, do you?” Executives worldwide agree that their number one fear is being found incompetent.
The Side Door
When I talk to my coaching clients I always stress the fact that you have to follow opportunities when they present themselves. Even those that may seem unrelated to your ultimate goal. Why?
The Sexy Potato
There are watershed moments in our professional lives where something happens that changes everything.
The Wipe Out
As entrepreneurs and creative professionals we may start a project, a product, a business that gets wiped out. Clients lost. Customers vanish. What happens next?
Control vs. Creativity
Driverless cars are off to a bumpy start. The newest vehicles are racking up a crash rate double that of cars driven by humans. So what’s the problem? It comes down to control vs. creativity
Less Is More
Branding and design are processes of subtraction. You shed all that is unnecessary to express the kernel of the idea. You find the essence.
Make Your Mark
So often we want to create something new. Something out of nothing. Like a business, or a brand, or a blog. But we are paralyzed.
Out Of Your Comfort Zone
To grow, you have to let go of worrying what people think of you. Let go of perfectionism. Let go of that ego a little.