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The Rare Gift of Constructive Feedback — for Improving a Business


If there’s a service provider that you respect, and you’d like to give them a gift (without having to spend money) consider doing the following:

Gently and kindly let them know why you are not signing up for their program, service, or product. You read that right. Give them the incredibly helpful gift of feedback.

This kind of message can really improve their marketing, and help them make decisions about what product or service they provide.

​Let’s talk about this valuable exercise, fr…

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My thoughts on "The Social Dilemma" -- Should We Be Using Social Media?


A popular documentary lately is The Social Dilemma. It bashes social media platforms such as Facebook for creating technology addiction and using our data to manipulate us.
Here are my thoughts about it…
​Yes, Guide Children Well

The one part of the documentary I agreed with the most is that we do need to be careful about how children use social media… just like we guide them in other activities.

For example, we restrict or moderate how much video games they can play. Or what interne…

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Why hasn't LinkedIn been working for your business?


​I’m about to teach a revamped version of my popular course about LinkedIn.

​For those thinking “I’ve used LinkedIn but it hasn’t worked for me”, this article is for you.

You probably have a LinkedIn account. So do most of the people you know who’ve had a professional life in the past 2 decades.

Since there are 700 million accounts on LinkedIn, making it the largest, searchable professional networking platform, why isn’t it working for you professionally?

There are only 2 reasons:

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Isn’t there already too much content online?


Should you add to the noise?

How can you stand out?

Think about this:
Every year, there are more books published than anyone can consume in several lifetimes… so should people stop writing books because there are “too many” of them?

Should people stop creating and sharing their art because there’s already so much?

Apply that answer to your own content:

Of course you shouldn’t stop creating and sharing.In fact, the solution to “too much content” isn’t to ask everyone to make less

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The Core of Authentic Marketing


​Since you’re reading this article, I’m guessing that you are in business primarily 
to express your soul and to serve others’ positive transformation.

Yes, you want a sustainable income, to allow you to keep doing the work you love… but your business is mainly from a deep place of calling.
Yet, most business/marketing experts assume that we’re doing this for the money. They try to get our attention with images of cash, cars, vacations…

“Get more traffic and profits!” “Build a 6-figu…

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