LinkedIn has finally changed the settings, so you cannot download your connections email addresses as easily as before. This is a recent change, and many will welcome it. Essentially LinkedIn used to automatically permit your email address to be downloaded, now, you have to expressly choose...
I’ve been asked a lot of questions since launching the LinkedIn Masterclass, I launched the Masterclasses earlier this year after I saw two things: 1) Tons of LinkedIn courses not really giving people practical advice about how to use LinkedIn for business development. 2) Lots of people asking me...
If you are a coach or consultant, you have probably felt the pain in your pocket and frustration in business of not being able to secure new clients. If you haven't, you can probably ignore this article. You have probably spent many hours meeting people, talking...
A year or so ago I was working with a client who is a leader in their industry. We're sat in a meeting room with department heads sat around the table. Halfway through the meeting, I said "The majority of your target audience doesn't know you exist" There was a...
If you've followed me on social media for any length of time, you'll know I am not a lover of Apple. I am an Android-loving-Windows-using-Apple-hater. The one thing I can appreciate about Apple is that is have created demand for their products. I'm not talking here about...
So you've probably noticed, I have a bit of a thing with LinkedIn. Out of all my channels, LinkedIn is probably the best for me. As I talk with business owners, I hear often the words "LinkedIn doesn't work for us". I've heard it at least 50 times...
When you start out in business you have that initial phase of fight and hustle to get business and expand. In the early days its hard work and effort, long days and late nights. You fight hard, work hard to employ people and feel like your...
Since departing 'agency life' I've been asked a lot about what we do. I'm an awkward hybrid of business developer, marketer and strategist. I've created this post for those of you with some form of morbid curiosity and for those who want to enquire but...
Your heart races. Images flash through your imagination. Technology that can enhance your effort. No, I'm not talking about smutty magazines and various 'devices' you can buy online. I'm talking about marketing porn. I'm talking about the tell-tale signs your addicted to marketing porn! Marketing porn might get your juices flowing,...
You don't want to know how many times I have heard this. A typical MD or CEO and their frustrations have reached the point of "I don't care what we have to do, we have to do just do it!" For most businesses the frustration is caused...