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How To Create Income Predictability In Your Service-Based Business

If you're running a business, you'll know how important income consistency and predictability are. How do we generate regular money coming in to the business in a predictable way so that we can maintain stability and grow.

How To Create Income Predictability In Your Product-Based Business

If you're running a business, chances are you're looking at ways to grow and scale. But that's always hard unless you can be sure you have steady money coming in. You need consistency.

The Brutal Realities Of Passive Income Vs Active Income

Passive income has become the golden goal for everyone. And we see the same trend in marketing, where people seem to seek quick and easy tactics - free tricks to achieve success. But people who run successful businesses don't have this mindset. Want to know why?

Social Media Can Be A Very Bad Thing

This week, we're introducing a bit of Discipline stuff. I do a lot of work on Discipline. And I have mainly been using a bunch of strategies and tactics on myself to make a serious difference. My aim is to turn these into a programme for people. But, for now…

Get Out There And Help People.

I often work and consult with marketing and digital agencies. In simple terms, I am bringing my long-term experience (since 2001) of running a small (up to 5 man) creative and digital agency and all the mistakes, assumptions...

What Does Marketing Mean To You?

It's 2017 and I have been running around the Thames Valley in Berkshire, England offering free marketing mastery consultations. So far, so good. But why did I do this?

11 Questions

When looking at the most successful businesses... Why do you think: Apple don’t have a blog that shares useful tip-bits on computing or design or software... or anything.

What's Your Problem?

So, I once had a client who's MD would blow hot and cold and run through the office demanding another eshot be sent out. It had worked well in the past a few times. But things change...

Invest In Your Creative

It seems that the current start-up world is obsessed with funding. Whenever people talk at accelerators or incubators and in start-up meetings is always about funding.

Build The Trampolines Before You Jump

I have ranted (sorry... blogged) about this before. You see, “Survivorship Bias” has a major problem. People who survive retrospectively attribute factors to...

Through Pain Comes Creativity - And Energy

There are some people who have all their business blocks stacked up nicely. They have some cash in the bank. They have a perfect brand story. They have got hugely credible experience... they have a nice website... and they are struggling.

Jump Off The Cliff And Build The Parachute.

For anyone starting out a new business. The myth that you "Jump off the cliff and build the parachute on the way down" is something that many of you will have heard of. This is, of course, a complete lie...