The Marketer Who Cried Wolf

The Marketer Who Cried Wolf

There’s a very old story. A shepherd boy is bored tending his sheep, and so to amuse himself, he shouts ‘Wolf, Wolf!” And the villagers come running to save him, and discover it was a ruse. And he laughs. And then he does it again, and they still fall for it,...
Why Great Selling is like Great Kissing

Why Great Selling is like Great Kissing

Ever since I decided to build a coaching business last year, I’ve had to learn to sell. I’d avoided it before. I got good at marketing, so I could let my writing do the selling for me. But as a coach, I had to learn to be with another human being, and sell my...
The Power of Bending Time-Frames

The Power of Bending Time-Frames

You have the ability to change time. You can change it, because you can think about it, and change the frame. No other creature we know about can do this. Our ability to think in time is one of the super-powers we are given as human beings. A lizard is perpetually...
The Death of the Trojan Horse Marketer

The Death of the Trojan Horse Marketer

Business isn’t about you and your weird tastes. It’s about your customers. And if you want to be successful, you can’t talk about the far-out stuff that you happen to like. That just won’t fly. No, you must talk about handsome return on investment, the tangible...
Unlocking Your Capacity to Create Money

Unlocking Your Capacity to Create Money

You’re a brilliant practitioner. You have a gift. You have so much to give. But you’re compromised. You’re over-giving and under-funded. When you don’t create money in alignment with your practice, when you don’t fuel your business effectively, you...
4 Principles of a Thriving Tribe

4 Principles of a Thriving Tribe

There is a disease at work in our marketing. It’s afflicting everything we do. It is chronic short-termism. The desperation to succeed at my new launch, so that my ego doesn’t get kicked in the teeth, and my bank balance doesn’t dip into the stress zone. The eagerness...