John Jantsch posted this awesome piece on how to generate innovative ideas for your business in lightning-like speed. In it, he teaches us how to leverage the power of parallelism and analogies to criss-cross ideas from one realm of activity into another. What I do is come up with one single topic – business growth, referrals, persuasion – whatever I am trying to work on – and I pick up books that are not related to the topic and read [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Tony Robbins often says that our life is a direct reflection of the expectations of our peer group. Recently, Johnny B. Truant posted about this on Copyblogger. He gave a few tips to supercharge your peer group: Find blogs, forums, and online social communities filled with people whose expectations you’d like to meet, and hang out there. Find a coach or mentor. Paying for coaching is a great way to care if you meet the coach’s expectations. Work with someone [...]
Glen Allsop published an awesome blog post on how to become an A-List blogger. In his post, he highlights a few very important points that stand out when it comes to differentiating yourself in the marketplace. If I asked you to define what an A-list blogger actually is, what would you say? I’m sure the usual thoughts like “thousands of subscribers,” “lots of comments,” and “large influence” come to mind. While these may be things that many of us agree [...]

