Archive for the '1% Improvement' Category

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Business Coaching Case Study: “Race The Base” For Charity

This is a great idea to raise funds for charity. I share ideas like this with you to show you that when you adopt Exponential Mindset Thinking™ you can and will become more creative and innovative. Exposure to new and different ideas stimulates your Reticular Activation System (RAS) so it gets easier and easier with […]

Happy Penguin Metaphor

If you haven’t seen this video, it’s a great metaphor for Exponential Mindset Thinking™, coming up with great solutions to apparently “unsolvable problems”. We have an event coming up called Etch-A-Sketch Thinking In The iPad Age that introduces you to this idea of coming up with fresh new ideas that get you out of trouble […]

Business Building Bootcamp Graduates show how it’s done

Every year, we stage the Exponential Business Building Bootcamp which is 3 full-on days where entrepreneurs and business people get together to learn the best strategies that are proven and tested to work. Each time it’s staged, there is new content, examples and case studies from real Australian businesses just like yours. Case studies that […]

Advertising Case Study: Barber Shop

This is a classic advertising story that is worthy of repetition. It’s not just funny, but exceptionally valuable when you extract from it lessons that you can leverage from it. Enjoy! A barber had been noticing that his clients had been dropping off slowly over the last eighteen months or so. He blamed the economy […]

Customer Service 101

I have to admit this is one of my pet peeves… People not answering their emails. Here’s the thing – I’ve done an informal analysis and I can make this claim with absolute anecdotal certainty. Your success in business is directly proportional to your responsiveness, follow-up and follow-through of your emails. I can without a […]

Exponential Entrepreneur Of The Year Winner Shows How It’s Done: Leveraging Case Studies

Sam Kritsotakis of Eskae Jeweller recently won one of six prestigious Exponential Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards. After-the-fact people often look ‘back’ and realise how obvious it is… Which is why I wanted to share with you one of the many Exponential Marketing Strategies we’ve taught him – leveraging case studies. Click on the hyperlink […]

What Does Exponential Actually Mean?

This is a question that is best answered by another question to illustrate it VIVIDLY. Would you rather have $100,000 today or 1 cent that doubles every day for 30 days? Click on the hyperlink to find out the answer to what exponential really means. At the upcoming Exponential Extravaganza, I’m going to cover the […]

20 Tips To Boost Your Direct Mail Response Part 2 Of 2

Today’s post is the second of a two-part list of 20 Tips to Boost Your Direct Mail Response. Direct Mail is still a very effective way to market your products and services. To learn the art and science of Direct Marketing, you should consider our Killer Kopywriting System. 10 More Tips To Boost Your Direct […]

20 Tips To Boost Direct Mail Response Part 1 of 2

Today’s post is the first of a two-part list of 20 Tips to Boost Your Direct Mail Response. Direct Mail is still a very effective way to market your products and services. To learn the art and science of Direct Marketing, you should consider our Killer Kopywriting System. 20 Tips To Boost Your Direct Mail […]

From 0 Sales To SOLD OUT In 3 Weeks

Today’s post is yet another example of how the little things make a BIG difference. As you probably know, I love dogs even though I don’t have any because of my ‘jet set’ lifestyle… Recently, I visited the puppies and dogs at Paddington Pups Doggy Day Care in Brisbane (video below). While I was there, […]

Heinz ketchup packet gets redesign

I don’t know about you, but every once in a while something like this comes around and you want to reach out and shake  Matt’s hand – for doing something that was so obvious, but took so much time and effort… The ketchup packet has been around for more than 40 years, and complaints about […]

AntiMimeticIsoMorphism Example: Think Inside the box!

Ian Faulkner sent me this YouTube link – everyone says to think outside the box, but when you’re antimimeticisomorphic, you want to consider thinking INSIDE the box! This video is self-evident, but the lesson for YOU might not be. What can you do to turn the proverbial box inside-out? What can you do to attract […]

Increase Retail Sales 28%

Watch this short video that reveals how retailers unknowingly throw away as much as 28% of their sales – that is one customer for every 4 walking out their shop door… This is one of those rare videos that hits you across the head like a two-by-four… As it should! WHAM!!!! The 4 Ways Sound […]

Squash Videos A Case Study Of Management By Metrics

If you don’t already know, I am a competitive squash player, now ranked in the ‘top 20’ in the world in the Men’s 45-49 age category. I learned to play squash less than 10 years ago, have only played competitively for the past 5 years and have competed in less than 10 tournaments in my […]

Let your RAS do the heavy lifting for you

First of all, your RAS is your Reticular Activation System. The way I train my most elite clients – Platinum Members, is with my Daily Distinctions that are part of my Advanced Business Coaching System that include a DAILY e-mail, every day of the year – WITH NO DAYS OFF. The e-mails are designed for […]

Money Saving Tip – Promotional Signage

By now, you know about my 1 Percent Improvement Doctrine that simply states that it’s the small things that make the biggest difference. In fact, it’s why you are a subscriber to this and my other blogs. You know that I have countless ideas, tips and suggestions to make or save you money. Like today’s […]

Grow Your Business By NOT Exhibiting At The Next Trade Show

Yes, I mean that – GROW your business by NOT exhibiting at the next trade show. Save the $1,000 to $10,000 cost and ATTEND the show with a free pass or invitation and walk the halls of the trade show with a different approach. Meet and greet people who can help you grow your business. […]

Exponential Marketing Principles Revealed

Every once in a while I get carried away with ideas, thoughts and what I call distinctions (key tips and techniques that make all the difference in producing results)… Today is one of those days. This post covers what I call the basics of Exponential Marketing for both the NOVICE as well as the VETERAN […]

Increase Your Sales By As Much As 50%

Today’s sales tip is a classic one that I recently had a client’s salesperson use to produce a $20,000 sale within one hour. It’s so simple that most people I advise to use this just don’t do it – to their detriment. It’s one of the most powerful sales techniques I ever used when I […]

Recession Trends

In a recent article in The Australian Financial Review, Hannah Tattersall highlighted that the casual Friday trend of showing up at work in jeans and a polo short has become another one of the casualties of the recession. Let me tell you why articles like this one is important for you to know as an […]