I bet dealing with ineffective team members is something you struggle with constantly. Whether you are on a team, leading a team, or leading a group of teams, one of your greatest challenges is not getting the work done, but instead dealing with those team members who...
048: How to Create and Run a Mastermind Group | Interview with Jonathan Milligan [Podcast]
Mastermind groups are the magic bullet for success. I have found the only people who do mastermind groups, and continue to do them over time, succeed. But, over the years I have struggled to find good groups. Most people do not want to commit or will bail out soon...
047: Making a Living from Amazon FBA | Interview with Kendall Davis [Podcast]
The other day I was in a coffee shop and ran into Kendall Davis. Kendall had attended a Career Focus class I help teach at my church. At the time of the class, Kendall was between jobs and trying to determine what to do next. So, naturally I asked him if he found a...
046: How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days | Releasing the Product [Podcast]
This is part 4 of the series called How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days where I promised to let you look over my shoulder as I create a product. Here is the final part, releasing and marketing the product. This is where the money starts to flow....
045: How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days | Creating the Product [Podcast]
This is part 3 of the series called How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days where I promised to let you look over my shoulder as I create a product. Today I will actually go over the product creation process and offer you a simple guide to creating...
044: How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days | Writing the Sales Copy [Podcast]
This is part 2 of the series called How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days where I promised to let you look over my shoulder as I create my own information product. At this point I have decided on the product I will create. Today I will write the...
043: How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days | Finding Information Product Ideas [Podcast]
Last week I started a series called How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days where I promised to let you look over my shoulder as I create an information product of my own. And, in case you are just joining in, I hope you, too, will take the challenge...
042: How to Create Your First Information Product in 30 Days [Podcast]
Want to know how to create your first information product in 30 Days? I am going to show you how. Today I will give you the steps, and over the next few episodes I will let you behind the scenes as I create a product. I invite you to join me and create a product of...
041: Passive Income from Information Products: The Lies and The Truth [Podcast]
Passive income from information products is history. Or, as Jerry (a devoted listener) put it "In a world where the value of information appears to be in rapid decline due [to] the sheer volume of web-based information and the extent to which such information is free...
040: Make Your Goals Actually Happen [Podcast]
How can you make your goals actually happen? Setting goals is the easy part. You experience fun and excitement as you envision the things you will do and become. Yet, keeping your goals on track for the next year is the hard part. Between now and the arching of the...
039: The Light of Christ [Podcast]
Merry Christmas! Years ago, someone asked me a question which I struggled with for some time, which I will now ask you: "Can you see light?" She wanted to know if we saw things with our eyes by using light, could we actually see light. What do you think? (I will...
038: Setting Goals for Next Year [Podcast]
When I was a teenager, my father decided we would build a A-Frame cabin on the lake. Over the next few years, I spent some mostly wonderful times heading up to a lake house every weekend morning. When we were not building, we were planning and preparing to build. One...
037: Debriefing: Five Key Questions to Plan for Next Year [Podcast]
Don't live last year over again! Last year may have been wonderful, a dismal failure, or just a minor disappointment. Either way, you do not want to experience the same thing again. You want to grow. You want new challenges and new successes. So, before you jump into...
036: The Anatomy of a Business Failure [Podcast]
Wonder what it looks like when a business fails? After all, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, the failure rate of small businesses is well over 50% within the first five years. I personally disagree with that failure rate, but that is a blog post...
035: Planning for Next Year | The Best Year Ever [Podcast]
Are you planning for next year? Usually at the start of a new year, I get overwhelmed. It is then when I start to do planning and think about the year ahead. Would it not have been better to start early? So this year I am doing my annual planning in December - and I...
034: Passion to Profits | Interview with Cliff Ravenscraft – The Podcast Answer Man [Podcast]
While I was at Platform in Dallas, I got a chance to sit down and talk with Cliff Ravenscraft who is otherwise known as "The Podcast Answer Man." If you are familiar with Cliff and have heard his story, you will get to hear more in depth his path to finding his...
033: Breaking Out of Corporate – Interview with Marcin Kwiecinski [Podcast]
Today I bring you an interview with someone who has experience breaking out of corporate life and starting his own business. I have been absent a few weeks. I took a blogging sabbatical. Have you ever tried that - a sabbatical from the normal? I suspect some of my...
032: Why You Need to Start Your Own Business Now [Podcast]
I have recently been convicted that small business ownership is not for just a few; it is for all. In this podcast, I want to share with you some of the reasons why you need to start your own business now. I am consistently meeting people who struggle with finding...