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: When it comes to creativity and innovation, why is it that so many people start and stop continuously, like a sprinter? Or, they innovate and then, all of the sudden, everything comes to a screeching halt? I...

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: It’s the day before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which is a time of year I look forward to and love. For me, the meaning of this holiday is about: Spending precious time with loved ones...

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: Last week I shared the key insights I gained from my first day meeting with my global growth circle. Today I would like to share additional take-aways from my second day’s meeting: All growth isn’t profitable. Our...

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: Every several months I get together with my global growth circle (mastermind group on steroids), facilitated by Alan Weiss, to discuss our businesses and identify growth areas for our clients and for us. I last reported 30...

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: The topic of clients’ best practices comes up quite often in my discussions with my clients. I have written on this topic in the past and today I will share these best practices from the perspective of...

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 had a fantastic conversation with one of my dear clients, John Boggs, a retired Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, a great thinker and a leadership expert. As we were exchanging ideas on creating success,...

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: Videos are a powerful tool to communicate your ideas and messages to your current and future clients. I see videos as one of the critical paths to achieve and rule your thought leadership space. Here are the...

This week’s reflection point: A client of mine just asked me what are the top three mistakes I observe that prevent elite business owners from reaching a higher level of success. Here they are: Poor strategy and lack of marketing blueprint. The problem here is the missing clarification of what amazing success means to you and your business, how would you describe and paint it and what is the definition of your ideal future? Next is the description of your...

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’ve been fortunate to frequently receive global inquiries for new business that eventually become clients of ours. Here is one I just received this week from Nigeria: “Chad, I have just finished reading Million Dollar Web Presence...

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 love obtaining new gadgets and technologies as much as I love inventing and creating new offerings for us and for our clients. I find similar passion exists among most of my clients as well. But let...