Early Lessons In Self-Sufficiency When I was only three years old, my father passed away. It was just my mother and me for all of my childhood. To this day, my mom has been my hero and continues to be the strongest person I know. She taught me...
From sales expert Jack Daly: there’s hardly anything that goes on in a sales call that couldn’t be anticipated before one’s arrival. I would modify that slightly: there’s hardly anything NEGATIVE that goes on in a sales call that couldn’t be anticipated and PLANNED FOR before one’s arrival....
I was recently reminded of brilliant direct marketer Axel Andersson, a Swede who moved to Germany and later the US and who ran a hugely successful home-study school in Hamburg, Germany, before coming stateside. Axel hired one of his successful students and put his office right next to...
According to a survey we conducted on www.MSPSuccessMagazine.com, a shocking 34% of the MSPs polled said they are NOT using e-mail to market to their list, and 24% said they are “kind of” using e-mail. Essentially, 58% of MSPs are not doing any e-mail marketing or are doing...
Recently, a Producers Club member reached out to discuss her marketing plan for the upcoming year. In preparation, she broke down all the leads generated from the previous year by source: direct mail, referrals, SEO, trade shows, e-mail (which is really a lead activation campaign triggered by e-mail...
They Were The Busiest 3 Months Of My Entire Life. And I LOVED Every Second Of It! Give me a choice of staying busy or being bored, I’ll always choose to stay busy. I joke that if this IT thing falls through, I can always be a circus...
This shocking statement just in from the US National Library of Medicine regarding diets: “They all work…when you stick to them.” Back when I was teaching fitness classes, the most common question I would get was “What is the BEST exercise I should do for _______ ?” with...
According to an article on SiteImprove, 131 of 135 websites analyzed (97%) had broken links and errors on their web page. The websites they focused on were all Fortune 1000 companies, who arguably have the resources (money and staff) to ensure this doesn’t happen. YIKES! While there’s no...
Stuck Between Growing Our Business And Saving It It’s all perspective. From the outside looking in, our commodity cloud and server company seemed like a goldmine a few years back. We were climbing toward $8 million in annual revenue. We had 50 employees. But because we weren’t sure...
