Podcast – Should You Put Pricing On Your Website?
When it comes to divisive topics, this one is right up there: Should You Put Pricing On Your Website? I chose this so you can hear more than one way to approach this for your business. When I’m doing consulting, sales training and website reviews, this is always one of the subjects we tackle. Read More
We were having our weekly family Zoom call today and my wife shared this saying that she saw online: “Yesterday is heavy… put it down!” What a simple and powerful phrase. It ties in well to one of my prior articles “Lessons to remember in a year to forget” and a webinar “.” One of the lessons is that you can’t always help what happens to you, or how it makes you feel, but you can control how long you allow yourself to feel that way. We all carry around our “Victim Card”, and it’s up to us to choose when and where to take them out.
It’s pretty clear that 2021 is going to be a busy year for doing weddings. The latest release of The Knot 2020 Real Weddings Study [COVID-19 Edition] shows that nearly half the weddings from 2020 were postponed, most of those to 2021. When you take all of those weddings on top of the weddings that were already scheduled for this year, it’s shaping up to be the busiest wedding year in our lifetimes, if not ever. Yeah, after last year that’s a welcome stat. The other side of that, of course, is that you now need to fulfill all of those weddings. And while that means you finally get to collect the rest of the money you’re owed from the postponed weddings, you’re also going to find yourself busier than normal.
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I counted down 12 Tips for the Last 12 Days of 20202020 was a year that most of us want to forget. As the year comes to a close, I counted down 12 Tips that will help you get a jump on a better 2021. They range from your website to reviews, sales tips to how not to get ghosted on your email replies. Click each of the headings below to read that tip.
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Saying that 2020 is a year that most of us would like to forget is a statement of the obvious. It’s always easier to look at the negative that’s in front of us, but there have been some bright spots. I’ll agree that finding those bright spots is sometimes hard when the dark cloud looms large. There are always things to be grateful for, if you’ll focus your attention on them. I’m grateful to speak with my 90-year old Dad every morning. Hearing his voice and knowing he’s safe and healthy is a good start to our day. Read More
Does it ‘feel’ right? Does it pass the smell-test? Do you get the warm and fuzzies? Or, do you have to have the data to support every decision? We all make decisions our own way, and not every decision is made the same way. How do you make your decisions? Do you like to do your research, map out a plan, check and recheck before acting? Or, do you jump right in because your gut tells you it’s the right thing to do?
When newlyweds and engaged couples ask about the secret to our happy marriage, I often half-joke it’s that I accept that it’s always my fault. That’s usually good for a chuckle, but I said “half-joke.” A younger me didn’t understand the power of accepting responsibility. A younger me had a strong need to be right. Don’t get me wrong, I still like to be right… I just don’t have to be right all the time. It’s a very liberating state of being. Read More
After every major event we hear about “the new normal,” but what does that really mean? What is normal? Normal is what feels comfortable. Normal is what feels effortless. Is that really normal? Life isn’t always comfortable or effortless, regardless of what’s going on around us. If there’s anything we can count on, it’s that life will throw us curveballs, usually at the most inopportune time. So why don’t we talk about the new normal when the economy is humming along? Things getting significantly better is a new normal, just as it is when things getting worse. Read More
Does it feel like every day is the same, or is it just me? Sometimes I forget what day of the week it is, or the date, and no, I don’t think it’s just my age, or suffering from what we like to call “CRS” – Can’t Remember S… (you decide what comes next). I’m just not used to being home this much, and there was more of a variety in my schedule on the road. To be fair, when I was traveling a lot I often didn’t know what day of the week it was, either (CRS?). But this feels different. Read More
Running a business is like running a marathon, or maybe an ultra-marathon. You need to develop the skills and stamina to keep going. Those skills are the technical skills of your craft, as well as the business skills to make it profitable and successful. Surely the current conditions have thrown a wrench into your race. And in the actual running world, even the NY City and Boston marathons have been canceled. The difference is that those canceled races will never happen. They’re not rescheduled. They will, hopefully, happen next year as originally scheduled, but this year’s races, and other major events like the South by Southwest conference, are casualties of the pandemic. Fortunately, most weddings and many social events are being postponed.
