Your Site Needs These 5 Things If You Want People to Buy After Visiting
December 5, 2017Your website is your business. It’s that simple. Without your website, your business barely exists. It’s how new customers will find you and how existing customer will refer you to others. Your website is your storefront. When people visit, your website should have these five things to ensure people understand what… Read more
I Almost Always Judge a Book by Its Cover
June 15, 2017Yes, a lot of the decisions I make are based on my first impressions of something. I make decisions on whether to pursue buying something or contacting a company based on their website, the colours in their branding, the feel of their store. I judge a book by its cover,… Read more
How to Figure Out What You Should Be Doing
April 1, 2017Figuring out what I really want to do and what I should be doing (because I believe both go hand in hand), has been one of the most difficult things for me throughout my life. I have always been very curious about so many different things, and passionate about pursuing those… Read more
All for the Money? You Are Going to Lose.
March 30, 2017Doing something simply to sell, or for the money, is playing the short game. And the short game is SHORT. If you want to get off on the wrong foot, doing anything for the sole purpose of making a quick buck is one way you can lose real fast. Especially now,… Read more
Building Your Brand First, Before Building a Business
March 23, 2017Before you start pushing products and services, trying to get new customers, focus on building your brand first. It may seem backwards in the way you should build your business, but it’s actually not and far from it. You can’t expect to build an empty business with no brand, with… Read more
People Aren’t Doing This One Simple Thing To Get Clients
March 23, 2017I can’t believe I am writing a post on this, but apparently it’s not common sense, Which is why this post will be extremely beneficial to you. There is one ridiculously simple thing that people with businesses are not doing with their current clients, nor are they doing it to… Read more
Stop Wasting Your Money on Google. It’s the Modern Day Billboard.
March 22, 2017The premium to be on the first page of Google has never been higher and less effective than it is today making it the modern day billboard. Whether you want to use an ad on the front page of New York Times (or Globe and Mail for my Canadian friends),… Read more
Marketing Has Nothing to Do With You
March 21, 2017Marketing expert Seth Godin would agree that the old ways of marketers have no place within the new age where online marketing dominates. Marketing is not advertising. The “Mad Men” days of spending money on ads to make more money are over. It’s not about flaunting your brand, your logo,… Read more
Clients Hate Making Decisions So Do This Instead
March 20, 2017We all know the overwhelming abundance of resources and options available to us as a consumer, a business owner, and a client. There is A LOT. To be make this more confusing, it’s not always easy to figure out what sucks, what’s important, and what’s simply a waste of your… Read more
My Friends and Family Don’t Think I Have a Real Job
March 20, 2017I work from home, or a coffee shop, or wherever there’s WIFI. I can’t really explain in a single sentence what I do. When you’re surrounded by traditionalists or people that define a job, a career, or “a living” as something that has a title and operates between 9–5 in a… Read more
Working From Home? 5 Things You Should Know to Stay Productive
February 26, 2017I’ve been working from home or remotely, for almost five years. It definitely has its perks, but you MUST keep these five things in mind. Some like to think that working from the comfort of your own home is a dream. Sometimes, I wouldn’t want to be working anywhere else, other… Read more
How a Single Tweet Became the Start of My Entrepreneurial Career
February 25, 2017This is how my company wouldn’t exist and I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now if I hadn’t reached out to a particular someone on Twitter. As part of my “Actionable Guide of Where to Start When Looking for New Clients”, I mentioned something I have found to be very,… Read more
Looking for Clients? Here’s the Actionable Guide on Where to Start.
February 21, 2017You’ve decided to start your own business and you need clients… well here’s what you should do. I’ve received quite a few emails and phone calls from people who are just launching their business, or have been doing it on the side, but really want to go out there and get… Read more