A late Christmas gift from Tom
Tom Matzen knows a thing or two about joint ventures. And the most popular free gift that he's given out in the last five years is a collection of eight legal templates for doing joint ventures and strategic alliances. If you're interested in doing more joint...
(Podcast) A chat with “The Super Coach”, Michael Burt!
Michael Burt ("The Super Coach") stopped by the Natural Born Coaches podcast today to talk about monetizing your coaching talent. Michael speaks, coaches, trains, and leads some of the top companies in the world. His biggest coaching program has over 150 entrepreneurs...
Safe spaces?
I once read an interesting book called "The Coddling Of The American Mind", by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. It talked about the attempts to protect college students from anything that could hurt their feelings. This includes blocking visits from speakers who...
Boxing Day thoughts
It’s Boxing Day, so let’s talk about Muhammad Ali. (What better day to talk about a boxer?) If Muhammad Ali was alive and an entrepreneur in 2020, I suspect he would do very well. First, he would have no trouble gaining attention in the crowded marketplace. He would...
The Christmas that Santa and Spider-Man disappointed me
Back when I was a wee lad (about five years old and three apples high), I asked Santa for a pretty cool Christmas gift. At least I thought it was cool - and totally do-able. Being a fan of the old Spider-Man cartoon, I decided that I wanted suction cups that would let...
How to out-earn The Monopoly Man
I once saw a funny meme that read: "Being famous on Facebook is like being rich in Monopoly - it's not real, so calm down" I get the point behind it: You can't buy groceries with your Facebook "likes". You can't make your car payment or pay your mortgage with them...
Keepin’ it real
My email marketing program has standard wording for when I first start writing an email to my list: ===== Hi Thanks for being a loyal email subscriber. We appreciate hearing from you. Let us know if you ever have any questions. ===== Could you get any more impersonal...
Here’s the magic number needed to “tip the scales”
There's a magic number that applies to politics, but can also apply to personal development: In his book "Campaign Confessions: Tales from the War Rooms of Politics", veteran Canadian political campaign manager John Laschinger writes about the importance of 60% in...
(Podcast) The Power of Pivoting During Challenging Times w/ Mark Black
Over almost 700 episodes of Natural Born Coaches, I've had just a handful of guests who live in my neck of the woods (Atlantic Canada) … but today is one of those rare exceptions. Mark Black stopped by the show with a timely message: how to pivot (and prosper) during...
Burt Wonderstone and the value of planning
It takes some time to build a successful coaching business. You can't expect to do one week of emails, or a few Facebook lives, or release a couple podcast interviews and then suddenly be swamped with clients and swimming in a vault of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck....