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I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!
Daily Post #1208 • March 31 2021 • Experience
Better Than Tracking
Marketing must include tracking lots of data, right?
Daily Post #1207 • March 30 2021 • Momentum
Solving the right problem
Are you solving problems or just moving the chairs around?
Daily Post #1206 • March 29 2021 • Narrative
Choose your middlemen
Choose your middlemen, or choose none. It’s up to you.
Daily Post #1205 • March 28 2021 • Craft
No Finds Another Way
“No” often comes with a silver lining:
Daily Post #1204 • March 27 2021 • Resilience
Exceeding the Anxiety
If you have a great offer, but the anxiety of changing products is greater, will anyone take you up on it?
Daily Post #1203 • March 26 2021 • Craft
Calendar vs Flow
Apparently I have a thing about calendars.
Daily Post #1202 • March 25 2021 • Experience
Leaving your phone behind
Remember when you’d go for a walk pre-smartphone?
Daily Post #1197 • March 20 2021 • Craft
The right kind of better
Our team are in the process of changing the business cards they use.
Daily Post #1196 • March 19 2021 • Experience
Nope
No is a really under-utilised word for those who really care about those they serve.
Daily Post #1195 • March 18 2021 • Craft
Feedback That Doesn’t Land
You think you’re sharing feedback.
Daily Post #1193 • March 16 2021 • Experience
Integrity Shouldn’t Cost Extra
Integrity shouldn’t cost extra.
Daily Post #1190 • March 13 2021 • Experience
Answers need homes
When we see a great offer, but we don’t have a need, there’s no demand and the offer isn’t great (for us) at all.
Daily Post #1189 • March 12 2021 • Narrative
Ruining deals with best practices
I bought a card game last week.
Daily Post #1187 • March 10 2021 • Experience
White-Label Lessons
Could you white-label your service?
Daily Post #1186 • March 09 2021 • Experience
Slow down to go fast
A good lap time is almost always accompanied with a boring, methodical, almost “slow” looking replay.
Daily Post #1185 • March 08 2021 • Momentum
Average and Great
Average and great – what’s the difference?
Daily Post #1182 • March 05 2021 • Experience
Closing & Ego
“I close in one call” is a perverse brag.
Daily Post #1180 • March 04 2021 • Experience
Gurus Everywhere!
There are gurus everywhere in the business world.
Daily Post #1179 • March 02 2021 • Narrative
It Could Be The Message
If your outbound calls aren’t working, it could be the way the calls are being handled or operated. Or it could simply be that you aren’t saying the right things to the right people.
Daily Post #1178 • March 01 2021 • Experience
Shifting the Pile
I’ve bought and filled more Moleskine notebooks than I could count, over more than a decade. I keep a pile of them ready to dip into so I need never stop jotting.