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Monthly Archives: March 2015

Someone is copying you right now

  • March 29, 2015
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If you are lucky, someone is copying you right this minute. It’s lucky because it means what you are doing is different, at least for the moment. It also means you have an urgency to … Read more

    • Business

How to blend in with your competition

  • March 28, 2015
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If you want to blend in with your competition, do what other people do in choosing how to design their website: buy a template. If the sales text says anything like, “will help you stand … Read more

    • Website Design

The connection value of being unusual

  • March 27, 2015
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When you are unusual, you have to work harder to connect. That’s why building a captive audience takes hard work, time, and patience. You can do something amazing and connect, temporarily, with people who follow … Read more

    • Marketing

The teaching power of the non-answer

  • March 25, 2015
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I ask a lot of questions when learning something new. In work, asking a lot of questions is a good thing that consistently pays off with valuable content and insights. When it comes to the … Read more

    • Working Better

Stirring things up for success

  • March 23, 2015
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If you’re waiting for success to happen, don’t hold your breath. Instead, stop waiting and go stir something up. Stirring things up doesn’t always need to be about getting in people’s faces. Sometimes you can … Read more

    • Working Better

The power of having nothing to lose

  • March 21, 2015
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There’s this somewhat irrational fear of people who have nothing to lose. It’s only somewhat irrational because we learn this fear from movies and media. Where the fear stops making sense is when it comes … Read more

    • Creating

Feigning surprise when things go wrong

  • March 20, 2015
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Businesspeople have an incredible knack for feigning surprise when things go wrong. For some people it’s more an insatiable knack, while for others it’s a motivation factor. Evidence is everywhere that things go wrong, yet … Read more

    • Business
    • Working Better

Working hard is working smart

  • March 18, 2015
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There’s a slacker buzz phrase that’s become popular in the last year around the idea of working smart instead of working hard. It’s also called being lazy. The opposite of working smart would be working … Read more

    • Working Better

The problem with recipes

  • March 17, 2015
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Recipes enable us to make a virtual replica of photo food or a scripted result. But the problem with recipes is three-fold. In fact, recipes are a set up. For one, recipes teach us that … Read more

    • Business
    • Thinking
    • Working Better

How to please everyone and keep your soul intact

  • March 16, 2015
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There’s some ancient business wisdom that says you can’t please everyone, and it’s partially right. Yet it’s also confusing. The fact is that everyone in your market can be pleased. All they have to do … Read more

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    • Working Better
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