Whatever your business, you have a story to tell, and it’s the key component in fully and deeply educating your marketplace about what you do. It brings out the uniqueness of your business; dramatically increases the chances that prospects will do business with you; and gives you a decisive edge over most of your competition. It’s not THAT hard to do, yet less than one entrepreneurial business in every thousand ever gets it right […]
Tell Your Unique Story
Identify Your Unique Advantage
Identifying your unique advantage is a key component in outselling, outsmarting and outperforming your toughest competition. If you can’t explain in a compelling way why someone should buy from you, and most businesses can’t, your prospective customer will see your business as being just like your competitors business. And when they can’t differentiate between offerings they […]
The Influencing Skills of Barack Obama
The seven critical skills that make the US president so influential. Barack Obama is undoubtedly one of the greatest influencers of modern times. His accomplishment in going from a relative unknown to the most talked about person on the planet in less than 18 months provides a lot of valuable lessons to anyone marketing a product, service or person
How to be credible when you connect on LinkedIn
Do you automatically accept every connection request you receive on LinkedIn? I hope not because the value of LinkedIn comes from the quality of the connections you establish, NOT from accepting every connection request that comes your way. In a world full of potential spammers, there are several things you should look for whenever someone tries to connect with you. It should start with a personalised connection request that gives a good reason for connecting […]