Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: I just hung up the phone with one of my clients discussing a new business opportunity where both of us may be involved. Since each one of us is an expert in different areas, we quickly realized...

  This week’s reflection point: In a recent conversation with a prospective client I asked them the following questions: How would you describe the essence of your business? What does success look like and what needs to happen to make this a remarkable year? What’s your business strategy? What is your value proposition statement describing how you help your clients? Who are your buyers, where are they located, what do they read, watch, listen to and attend? What are some...

  This week’s reflection point: One of the questions I get asked quite often is how to best leverage your newsletters to promote your business and to better monetize them. Here are my top 11 ideas: Focus your newsletters on powerful and practical advice from which your clients would benefit great value. Ask your clients for their key concerns and challenges and then publish ideas on how to solve them. Listen carefully to what your clients are asking or what is reported...

I was just chatting with my dear friend and client, Phil Symchych, who is a wizard at helping elite business owners create their business and personal wealth. As we were discussing this topic it occurred to me that through the work I do with my clients, I help them dramatically create and increase their web wealth. Your web presence (strategy, amazing content and wow design) presents you and your clients with tremendous potential value. This wealth manifests itself as adding...

  This week’s reflection point: You probably thinking, “is he talking about me?” No, I am not. I am talking about them. I recently spoke with one of my clients who shared with me that if her site is not perfect, it impacts her self-esteem. I suggested that her issues are not web-driven and perhaps she needs the help of a therapist. Other clients wanted us to change the size of the fonts by half a point and lighten the...

This week’s reflection point: I greatly enjoy attending developmental experiences where I get to stimulate my mind and develop new ideas, meet and network with some amazing people and help others. One of the things I enjoy most when attending such developmental experiences is to share my key learning points with you. Here are the reasons why: It enables me to: Summarize and scrutinize my notes and share the highlights. Extract the knowledge and wisdom from my own head and...