30 Growth Success Ideas

Feb172014

Find opportunities to work on your business rather than in your business. Change your mindset from a business operator to a business owner. Delegate all that’s possible with clear outcomes and consequences. Constantly create new products and services for your clients. Bring in other rainmakers. Stop using others’ intellectual property (IP) and keep developing your own unique IP. Use your common sense and make things simple. Abandon things you are not passionate about. Reduce your labor intensity. Create a weekly...

How Prepared Are You for Next Year?

Dec312012

Imagine embarking on a US road trip from east to west coast without a plan, a map or a GPS. Similarly, how would you reach dramatic greater success at the end of next year without having created your roadmap? For the past several weeks and over the next few week, I am working with my clients to help them create their own roadmap. I am also glad to report that I have put myself through the same process that I...

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me

Aug312012

I could hear the excitement in her voice when Debbie, one of my clients, called yesterday and said: “You are not going to believe this Chad! Your provocative questions and your coaching helped me deliver a fantastic speech that immediately led buyers to contact me, not to mention the remarkable new content available now on my site. Thank You!” “This is exactly the kind of call I love to receive. May I ask a favor of you?” “Of course,” she...

How to Promote Your Web Site

Aug172012

I get asked this question a lot: “Chad, now that I’ve launched my site, how do I best promote it?” A while back I wrote You Just Launched Your New Site, Now What? where I reviewed some key elements to promoting your site. Today, I am going to dive much deeper and give you the recipe or menu options to choose from. So although a longer article, this is a good one, so here you go: Create Your Contact List...

How to Maximize Success?

Aug12012

For as long as I’ve been in business, I’ve been fascinated with what it takes to significantly increase our success as well as what are the habits of those who have done so. I do acknowledge that although success often has unique and subjective attributes for each individual, there are several widespread components that apply to most individuals. In my continued quest of decoding success and uncovering these attributes, I have recently come to realize that there are four primary...

Do You Have the Courage to Do What it Takes to Be Successful?

Feb202012

This has to be one of my most favorite questions that I ask prospective and current clients. I do acknowledge that each person, when asked that question, indicates their desire and commitment to increase their success, different as it may be for each. Unfortunately, few actually act on it. Here is what I mean (in no particular order) by having the courage to do what it takes to be successful: Realize that success is not some silver-bullet approach or formula...

10 Items to Evaluate Before Investing In Your New Site

Jan82012

Entrepreneurs and organizations often times approach me with the request to help them put together a new web site. My reply is that they are thinking about it completely wrong and need to change their mindset. Here are the items to consider and assess: When asked to articulate what your strategy is? can you do it? Your site is only one marketing component (out of many) to support your overall strategy. Answer the following questions: What is your strategy? Paint...

What is Your Strategy?

Aug12011

Developing a sound strategy is critical before success is achieved on the Internet. I often talk with prospective clients who ask me to further articulate and provide them with additional clarity as to what strategy is. So with that in mind, I have decided to write this section for my new upcoming book Million Dollar Web Presence. Since I get asked this question a lot, here it is for your benefit. A strategy is the framework that helps you identify...

Success Blueprint

Sep192009

I am constantly intrigued by what generates success for entrepreneurs so I may apply this blueprint for my business as well as my clients business. Here are some of the components of such success: Internalized Knowledge and experience. Intellectual fire power which is gained through additional learning, reading and experience. Innovative and creative ideas. Mental discipline to get out the intellectual capital (between your ears) into products and services which become your intellectual property. This transfer process is done through instantiation,...

3 Key Elements to Web Site Success

Aug242009

Upon review of probably thousands of web sites over the years, I have come to the conclusion that in order for your organization to be successful on the Internet, 3 key elements must be accomplished to generate such success: Design: Your site ought to be professionally designed, attractive and engaging and be easy to navigate in order to quickly gain the visitors’ attention and interest. Good use of images is important as well as the use of action shots of...