How to Sell Your Service – 13 Sneaky Easy Ways

How to Sell Your Service - 13 sneaky easy ways to sell more with less effort

How to Sell Your Service How to sell your service is the killer question for all thought leaders, business experts and service providers. In this post we share 13 sneak easy ways that are sitting right under your nose. We’ve all been to the supermarket and been confronted by those beautifully smelling product samples. And, […]

Be a Better Speaker

Better Speakers - Helen Macdonald

Comedian Steve Martin once said the key to making it in any field was: Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them and nobody ever takes note of it cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear — what they want […]

The Power of Stories

Power of Stories

Every now and then I get a little obsessed and right now I’m obsessed with stories. I’ve been writing some more stories in my blog – notably my two most recent blog posts: How Fast Can You Change and When Was the Last Time You… I’ve also been reading books about Stories and in particular been […]

When was the last time you…

Compact Disc

Yesterday I reflected on how quickly things can change. In particular I wrote about the swings in my emotions and my finances over a short period of time. Today I want to reflect on how quickly things can change in terms of the technology and systems we use in our daily lives and the business […]

How Fast Can You Change?

C-change

It’s been an interesting week. One week ago had you asked me ‘How’s business?’ I would have said ‘Things are looking up and the best they’ve been looking for 18 months.’ I had 4 projects on the boil. I was excited. And, within a matter of days, everything changed. Whilst one smaller project came through, […]

The Power of Hate

Power of Infographics

The Power of Infographics Recently, I was searching the web for some really cool infographics. And, on a single page I found a whole host of them. On the surface they looked pretty. And, when I looked a bit closer there was something else going on. The page I found was called ‘Why We Hate […]

How to Design Effective Goals

Victory - Design Effective Goals

Setting goals is one thing that sets us apart from our animal cousins. We can plan for the future, they can’t. And, achieving our goals is one thing that separates the successful from the rest. Here we look at the role of goals in life and how good you are at fulfilling them. It’s been […]

7 Ways to Measure Your Progress

One of the keys to achieving your strategic outcomes is to measure your progress. Through measuring you gain feedback on what is working and what is not allowing you to adjust your tactics. In this episode of the Ideas Architect Podcast (#78) we share seven ways to measure your progress: Money Traffic Output Learning Contribution […]

Your Business Story

Why You Need Stories - Business Story

Previously I shared a key story in identifying my calling and the start of my entrepreneur’s journey. It was sparked by one of the books we rapped at Book Rapper called Power Stories by Valerie Khoo. Your Everyday Business Story Today, I want to share a fundamental story that we all tell whenever we meet […]

What’s Your Calling?

Calling - Drawing Board

One of the recent books we rapped through Book Rapper was Power Stories by Valerie Khoo. We reviewed this book here. Power Stories contains guidelines for you to create eight important stories for your business. Epic stories equals epic business. The Entrepreneur’s Journey One of the eight business stories to write is your entrepreneur’s journey. […]