Not a Farmer? Check Your Heart!
Dear Intrepid Entrepreneur, if you have the heart of a farmer, you're already a success. What? Explain! On Super Sunday, February 3, 2013, Dodge aired this legendary ad. Take two minutes and listen.
The Eternal Sunrise of Market Dominating Companies
When you’re searching for ways to level up your company, where are you looking hardest? Too many leaders strain and stare at the horizon for what’s going to change, hoping to leverage those changes.
3 Essentials For Turning Strategic Planning Into Strategic Doing
Quick! Show of hands—how many of you even remember where you put your strategic plan for 2020? Okay… Not so great…
Magical Ad Writing for Everything From Piccolos to Recruitment
You have to: 1: Not sound like everybody else 2: Get into somebody’s imagination and mess around.
5 Lessons for Business and Life
For the last 16 years, I have been the business partner of Roy H. Williams, aka The Wizard of Ads. Roy is like the wise big brother I never had. Today I am going to share some unsaid lessons. Some observations.
Modernizing The Buying Funnel
In our combined 50-plus years of doing this, we’ve learned sales resistance and loss of repeat and referral customers comes from one of two places.
Recruiting Good People — Overcoming Limits to Growth
You need qualified, experienced guys & gals who also have the work ethic and cultural fit that great companies like yours insist on. And one thing about those people is they're almost never looking for a job.
Tony’s Best Business Tips, On the Occasion of His Passing
Right from Tony’s first entrepreneurial venture, he understood that long-term thinking was a strategic advantage.
The Path to Employee Empowerment
The blind spot of most business owners occurs directly at EBITDA Net Profits. We lose sight of the long-game for what we have right in front of us.
Give Your Salespeople The Advantage With This One Tip
It’s the benefits that someone buys, not the features, right?! WRONG! Wait, what? Let’s explore for a moment…
Trust But Verify — Why You Should Take Ronald Reagan’s Advice
Unfortunately, the tendency is for “verification” to feel intrusive and negative. As if you’re trying to catch someone doing it wrong. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
How Company Culture Improves Your Marketing | Wizard’s Roundtable
Mike Slover and Mike Whitmire explain what felt kind of broken within the company and how that was having an impact on the results they were having.
Selling Magic
Looking to close more sales? Try magic… Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. Like all great magicians, the power of your sales presentation is in the setup. Let’s take a peek behind the curtain.
Choose Your Constraint — Why Choosing the Wrong Constraint is a Common-Sense Express Train to Catastrophe
There’s no such thing as a perfectly balanced company where every function is staffed and supplied at the exact right amount.
Why Culture Matters
My curiosity first peaked when I heard the phrase, “in any organization, culture eats strategy for lunch”. After 3 years of research on the subject following the scientific method, I’ve constructed and tested a hypothesis that I believe to be true.