A few middle-of-the-week business-building items
Here's some stuff happening on this hump day: 1) The May issue of Secret Coach Club heads to the printer soon, and this month I'm covering: Lessons from the life of "The King" - Elvis Presley! I love Elvis and have spent a lot of time reading and studying his life....
Today’s the day to learn how to sell by chat
We're just hours away from FlowChat's Sell by Chat™ training, and what they're teaching has proven to give results … For example, there's Jacob - who just three months after starting to use FlowChat had a packed calendar and made $85,000/month from it …And Jared, who...
A rule for success in the online space
According to the FlowChat guys, here's how you can guarantee success in the online space: “If you follow this one rule of treating other people the way that you want to be treated, you stick out.” That's the exact opposite of copying and pasting a pushy sales message...
(Podcast) The Power In Building Online Communities
I'm a big fan of building Facebook groups and engaged online communities, so I had Maruxa Murphy on the podcast today to talk about that. Maruxa is a Community Architect who helps coaches create an additional 6 to 7- figures in revenue through their online...
Elon Musk and the value of trying new things
The Internet is flipping out over Elon Musk buying Twitter. Some (including yours truly) like it, but others think it's the end of the world and are talking about deleting Twitter and going back to MySpace or something else. My two cents? Twitter has been broken for a...
Who the FlowChat training is for … and not for
This week I've been talking about FlowChat's upcoming live training that'll show a better way to sell by chat. Besides coaches, it's for consultants, agency owners, service providers, sales pros, business owners and solopreneurs … especially those who are: B2B...
The real reason why businesses don’t prospect
An insight that I heard from the FlowChat guys: The reason a majority of businesses don't prospect is because they get bored! When I look at the people sending out hundreds of copied and pasted messages to strangers on social media every day, I think "What a crappy...
How to *never* lose …
Nelson Mandela once said: “I never lose. I either win or I learn.” It reminds me of my friends at FlowChat, who experimented with pretty much every marketing option available for coaches and meticulously tracked their results. They tried organic, challenges, virtual...
Some of the folks that you see in your DMs
Over the years I've noticed that strangers direct messaging others fall into a couple of categories: There are the "clueless" ones who ask "What do you do?" even though it's all over your profile.There are the "inappropriate" ones who ask stuff like "So, how much do...
A different (more profitable) way of selling with direct messages
Direct messages (DMs) are a hot topic in the online coaching space now. A lot of the chatter out in CoachWorld is complaining about being hit with unsolicited messages from strangers that are annoying, thinly-veiled sales pitches. Full disclosure: I've ranted about it...

