When I was a kid you could go to a place like Chucky Cheese or an arcade and play skee-ball. If you scored enough points you’d win tickets. Then you’d take the tickets up to the counter and the person would count all the tickets out by hand. I remember looking over the case of …
Alan went fishing – the streams and rivers had just been stocked with trout and he was looking forward to catching some nice fish. He was completely ready with the right equipment. Alan had the perfect rod and reel. The perfect lure and the perfect wading boots… but he wasn’t catching any trout. He couldn’t …
I recently had a chance to sit down and chat with Robert Plank, who created an awesome new WordPress plugin called PaperTemplate. Most online marketers know the importance of using dedicated landing pages, squeeze pages, and sales pages in their marketing funnels. The only problem, especially for those who use WordPress (and who doesn’t these …
I was watching a revolving door in a lobby of a hotel as the people went in and out. There were people of all shapes and sizes. One man was talking loudly on his cell phone, and a lady came through the door with a dog in her purse! As I was standing there watching …
“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar When I started out in sales things were tough. I had lots of people saying no and I really didn’t know what I was doing. It was hard to stay motivated in …
A customer walked into Hannah’s store with a snow globe she had bought. But something wasn’t right. Hannah could tell just by the look on the customer’s face. The figurine in the snow-globe was turned around backwards. And the customer was MAD. Hannah took the snow-globe turned the winder on the bottom and handed it …
Last year in January I went to the gym (something I do pretty regularly) and watched all the people working out. There were probably 3 times as many people as there usually are. It happens every January. But by February, the numbers started to dwindle again, and we were left with pretty much the same …