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Booked Solid University Free Iphone App – It’s Ready!
It’s official. The FREE Booked Solid U Small Business Success app for the iPhone and iPod is available.
You’ll get daily tips, advice, support and inspiration sent directly to your phone. You’ll never have to come back to this site again.
How do you like them apples?
Just go to the apps store at iTunes and search for the “Booked Solid U” app. Click the FREE download button and, before you know it, you’ll be smarter than you’ve ever been.
8 Comments »Free Small Business Networking & Referral Group
Sometimes I love working alone and others times I hate it. It can be lonely and isolating. I much prefer collaborating and connecting with others. Sure, we have all the social media outlets but they can be overwhelming, unfocused, and filled with irrelevant ideas and information.
So, last year, I created the Booked Solid Referral Network. It was a free online community for business owners who wanted to connect with each other in very purposeful and profitable ways. Specifically around networking and referrals . Because, if you network with the right people, you’ll get more referrals. It worked. In just a few short months over 3500 business owners joined . We were building something special.
But I closed it down. Don’t worry, it’s back up now. I closed it because the massive software platform we were using sucked, plain and simple. It was too big and offered too much. I since learned that sometimes, less is more.
So, today, we re-open the doors to the Booked Solid Referral Network. It’s streamlined and simplified. It’ll take us a few months to grow the community but I wanted to personally invite you to be a charter member and build the community in your image.
Sign up takes 2 minutes and it’s free. No strings attached. Go for it!
6 Comments »Learning Small Business Success from People You Don’t Like
Something I’d like to mention about learning and small business success.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to listen to people with whom we don’t always agree. Especially when it comes to “ways of being” or how to go about achieving small business success. Often we think we learn best from those like us but sometimes we learn what we didn’t know we needed to know from those we think different than us and who think different than us. Can you follow that?
I say this because the last time I did a tele-seminar with author and blogger, Tim Ferris, I received a number of comments from my readers regarding what they didn’t like about Tim or his work. The same thing happened when I hosted Michael Gerber or Keith Ferazzi, and even Seth Godin.
Now, don’t get me wrong the majority of comments I have received about all of these folks have been overwhelmingly positive. But, let’s take Tim for example. He is one well-known dude. Heck, about 100,000 people follow him on Twitter. And you don’t get to be a NY Times and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling author without people being drawn to what you have to say. But, and this is a big but… no one will be universally liked. Ghandi wasn’t. Nor is Nelson Mandela. They were both jailed by their opposition, for goodness sake (Of course, my friend, Tim, is no Mandela or Ghandi (sorry Tim). But you get the point.)
If you have something to say, say it. You may ruffle some feathers. And, feathers will be ruffled at high altitudes. You want to fly high, don’t you?
So, tell me, who have you learned from—that you didn’t think you “liked”? (You don’t have to mention names. Just say, Mr. or Ms. X.)
No Comments »Customer Service Sells (No, Really, It Does)
One of my articles for American Express Open Forum. This might seem obvious but customer service sells. But, not in the way you might think.
No Comments »How to make a book a bestseller
The proof is in the pudding. See article from today’s NY Times, “With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell” by Motoko Rich. The author begins the article with a riddle: How do you make your book a best seller on the Kindle? Answer: Give copies away. But many of the big publishers still find the strategy untenable because they aren’t changing with the times and adapting to new technology and today’s market.
Why is is that those with the most security (influence, power, money, etc) seem to be the least likely to change with the times? Of course, yes, I know “They’re afraid to risk what they have,” but to me, it seems counter intuitive. Maybe it’s the way I interpret the world but the more security I feel the more risks I’m willing to take and the more adaptive I’m likely to be.
