Consulting? No-one will ever pay for my advice! I’m not an expert. Everyone already knows what I could teach. There’s already way too many people selling. I don’t have anything new to say… Have you said any of this to yourself? I sure have! I’ve been judging my work’s value by my pay-packet for years….
Tag Archive: business
Website heresy: Ignore user feedback
Feedback and collaboration are wonderful, important topics and they have passionate advocates. If you develop your offer with your customers you get better, more satisfying and more profitable products and services. But. There’s always a but, isn’t there? It’s not fair. Yesterday I was writing about how you should collaborate and work with your readers,…
Website heresy: The technology doesn’t matter
It’s time to shake things up here in BeAwesomeOnlineLand. (Did you hear someone start playing Eye of the Tiger? Weird.) We’ve just completed two months of how-tos and daily 5-minute missions, and gotten to know a lot about you and where you’re at and you’ve let us know how we’ve helped you, and these are…
5 minute mission: Go above and beyond
1. Choose one of the boring, pedestrian tasks you perform every day. 2. Do it gloriously well. Instead of a “Thanks Pete” response on an email, reply with something thoughtful and useful. Include a personalised note with the package you’re sending out. Find an article you like and write a good recommendation. Take the time…