A quick note about flat fee joint ventures
This week I've been talking a lot about my new Flat Fee JV program, and here's an important thing to say about it: My program is for joint ventures where you are promoting a partner to your audience … NOT vice-versa, where someone is promoting you to their community....
Read this if you don’t know what to offer
Earlier this year I sent out an email about the importance of making offers consistently: ===== Are you “open for business”? All of the social media posts, blog posts, videos, podcast interviews and calls in the world aren’t going to make a difference if you aren’t...
How to save yourself hundreds of hours every year
Back in the old days, I wasted a lot of time on calls with people I shouldn't have been talking to. These folks (usually strangers, or casual social media acquaintances) reached out to ask me for: a "getting-to-know-you" calla "virtual coffee"a call to see what I was...
How to avoid the dreaded joint venture “goose egg”
Have you ever done a joint venture where you've gotten a "goose egg" from it? (A goose egg means $0 earned) It's ok if you have, it's not that uncommon. Unfortunately, the way traditional joint ventures are done this happens far too often. If you've been stung by this...
How you can start profiting from my unique “flat fee” joint venture system today!
Here's the traditional way of doing joint ventures: Someone asks you to promote their offer to your audience … You agree to be paid a certain percentage from the sales of it … You send out an email or two, or put up a few social media posts here and there … Then you...
(Podcast) Why You Should Be Doing “Flat Fee” Joint Ventures
A new episode of Natural Born Coaches has arrived, and today I'm talking about my "flat fee" joint venture model. I've been doing my JVs this way for a few years now, and I share why I think you should consider doing them for your business (along with some tips to...
The Bee Gees and storytelling
This is the story that Robin Gibb from The Bee Gees told when he was asked how the band wrote the song “I Started A Joke”: "The melody to this one was heard aboard a British Airways Vickers Viscount about a hundred miles from Essen. It was one of those old four engine...
The lost art of long-term thinking
Humans are, for the most part, short-sighted creatures. They want everything now, and aren't willing to wait for it. I see it all the time in the coaching world. Sure, plenty of coaches will wait a few weeks or a few months for things to click, but they aren't usually...
Bah humbug to Black Friday sales
I'm not doing a Black Friday sale this year. Come to think of it, I can't recall ever having done one. I guess that makes me the black sheep online, since it seems like every Tom, Dick or Harry does them. Why am I cold on the practice? I don't like playing the game...
My favourite books of 2020
I have an addiction: Books. I can't go to the bookstore without buying an armful of them. I can't visit Amazon without filling my shopping cart. I can't go a day without reading them. If Marie Kondo, who recommends having no more than 30 books, saw my bookcase she'd...
