Business Coach, Marketing Consulting, Sales Training, Public Speaking Coach, San Francisco Bay Area Business Coaching, Marketing Consulting, Sales Training, Public Speaking Coaching, San Mateo County Page 2

We Must Be Remarkable

June 14, 2010

In John Jantsch’s new book, The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business To Market Itself, he talks about a podcast interview he had with Seth Godin. In the chat, Seth says that if you’re not getting referrals, it’s probably because you, your business, or both, are boring. Yep, boring. Hmm, am I boring? I don’t think [...]

Read the full article →

Sameness is the enemy of the speaker

May 24, 2010

I just finished a weekend with Steve Siebold and Dawn Andrews at the Bill Gove Speech Workshop. This is the premier workshop for speakers worldwide and has been for the last 63 years. I now understand why it’s so esteemed. The content is very rich. When you go through a learning experience like this people [...]

Read the full article →

Becoming A Graduate Of The Bill Gove Speech Workshop

May 23, 2010

As of 3 pm Pacific Standard Time today I became the latest graduate of the highly esteemed Bill Gove Speech Workshop. I’ve been excited about professional speaking since graduating at the top of my Dale Carnegie class in 1998. Since then I’ve studied speaking, steadily improving my skills. I now speak publicly each and every [...]

Read the full article →

Never Forget The Concept Of Lifetime Value

May 17, 2010

In the last month I’ve had two very bad customer service experiences at places I regularly patronize. In both cases the lifetime value of my repeat business meant nothing to the perpetrator of the bad service. Bad, bad strategy to not pay attention to this incredibly important concept. I’ll share these two events with you [...]

Read the full article →

How Crush It Changed My Approach To Small Business

March 30, 2010

Crush It is a very popular book written by Gary Vaynerchuk. It tells the story of how he took his dad's liquor store from 4 million to 50 million in annual sales through a big emphasis on social media and creating a brand around Gary and the store. I strongly recommend it for all small [...]

Read the full article →

How About A New Direction For Your Business?

March 25, 2010

There’s a lot of talk about developing a niche for your business and that’s how to become successful. By doing this you’ll get ‘niche and famous’. There is some truth to this. If you try to be all things to all people, then you’re unlikely to be remarkable at doing any of those things. But what [...]

Read the full article →

The Value of Tenacity As Taught By President Obama

March 23, 2010

The landmark bill on health care reform was signed in to law today by President Obama. As Vice-President Biden said in his introduction, many bold and very determined presidents dating back to Teddy Roosevelt have failed to do what Obama has done. This is significant! I must say that I was very skeptical that this [...]

Read the full article →

Welcome to the Blogsite for The Growth Coach

March 20, 2010

Just a quick welcome post to let you know where you’ve landed. I’m a small business transformer based in Northern California. I work with small business owners and independent professionals to be much more successful in their business and life. If you’re here to read my blog, you’ll find it just below this post. Please [...]

Read the full article →

Are You Using Your Top Money Making Talents To Grow Your Business?

March 19, 2010

Small business ownership in the beginning is really tough. You have to work like crazy and do everything. You have to invoice, pay bills, write advertising, create marketing plans, budget, network, sell, interview vendors, look for alliance partners, join service clubs and referral groups, keep up with technology, get great at time management, learn new [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →