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...

  This week’s reflection point: Over the past several years I have helped my clients create thousands of pieces of powerful content. From articles and process diagrams, to audio and video recordings and numerous products to name a few. Today, I’d like to focus on the elements of creating effective audio recordings or podcasts. Here they are: Message -Select a topic that is of great interest to your clients to help them increase and accelerate their success. Structure – Keep...

This week’s reflection point: I was recently reflecting on what is the one key thing I need to do in order to make this become another great year. Here is the initial list I came up with: Take more risks. Delegate all that’s possible. Increase discipline. Schedule more strategic breaks and thinking time. Identify and implement what it means to work smarter than harder. Recognize key insights and integrate into my content creation, life and business. Create, label and use...

This week’s reflection point: Here are some ideas on how to improve the quality of our lives and businesses and make sure we stay on top of our game: Abundance thinking is about creating the life that constantly amazes you where you appreciate and cherish every moment. It’s about learning what to remove such as worries, negative thinking, excess baggage and even some people. It is also about knowing you always have the control to create more business or ideas even when you...

This week’s reflection point: As many of you know, early in my career I was a professional musician; playing, composing, entertaining and teaching guitar lessons. It was a surprise to me to learn that some of the world’s best compositions from some of the greatest musicians and artists took only minutes to create. Picasso often bragged of his quick drawing skills. I’ve come to realize that the same applies to creating outstanding content. The best creation can take just a...

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: Several years ago, when designing the logo for my company, I requested the feedback of my trusted support group and found that some like black and some like white. Some like modern and others prefer conservative style....

This week’s reflection point: If you look around you it’s hard not to notice the quoting phenomena. What I mean by this is the ever-growing trend of people quoting others. Whether reading a book, watching an interview, or visiting the various social media platforms, it’s ubiquitous. What makes it even more popular is our peer-pressure to “like” others’ postings. We have created a “like” society. For example, people like to shop where others “like” to shop, stay at hotels where...