Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 60 How Prepared Are You? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 60

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: While attending Alan Weiss’s thought leadership symposium several months ago and hearing Dan Pink’s presentation, I was astounded by Dan’s ability to memorize key elements of each of the 20 global consultants in attendance. He memorized our...

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New Web Presence Launch – Merge Gupta-Sunderji

I am excited to share the recent launch of the new web presence for Merge Gupta-Sunderji, Leadership Expert and Founder of Turning Managers Into Leaders. She gives people specific and practical tools to help them achieve leadership and communication success. Check out this great site, showcasing Merge’s expertise, track record of success and wisdom: © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.

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Speakers Beware of Scam

Here is an email I received from one of our clients to today: Hi Chad, I have had correspondence with Bishop Desmond Inglesby of the Church of England, South Africa, but it now appears that it is a scam.  He invited me to speak at a conference in March in Cape Town, South Africa.  It was supposed to be their annual church conference.  It sounded perfect with about 1,500 people in attendance.  They sent me a formal contract which I...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 59 First Impressions Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 59

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. I am excited to share with you that we are getting ready to launch our brand new web presence project for The Chad Barr Group. While putting together the final touches of our project, it occurred to me how critical it...

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30 Growth Success Ideas

Find opportunities to work on your business rather than in your business. Change your mindset from a business operator to a business owner. Delegate all that’s possible with clear outcomes and consequences. Constantly create new products and services for your clients. Bring in other rainmakers. Stop using others’ intellectual property (IP) and keep developing your own unique IP. Use your common sense and make things simple. Abandon things you are not passionate about. Reduce your labor intensity. Create a weekly...

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New Web Presence Launch – The Jared Nichols Group

I am excited to share the launch and web presence of Jared Nichols, Principal of The Jared Nichols Group. As a futurist, he helps leaders and organizations gain competitive advantage, seize new market opportunities, drive in new revenues, and increase profits. Jared is one of the few people in the world to hold a Masters Degree in Strategic Foresight and is sought out by leaders to help them identify and create their long-term successful future. Check out Jared’s impressive site, showcasing his...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 58 WOW Them Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 58

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: I am here in Miami meeting with my global growth mastermind group. We’ve had some terrific discussions today on how to increase our success and that of our clients. Here are some of my key take-away points:...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 57 How Effective Is Your Web Copy? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 57

  This week’s reflection point: One of the key challenges my clients face is how to create effective copy and content for their web site pages. They all have terrific and valuable ideas but struggle how to properly word them. Some end up writing the copy themselves, others outsource to professionals, and the rest agonize and hope for the best. Effective web copy will intrigue your audience to read, listen or watch. It will help stimulate their minds and yours...

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8 Steps to 8 Figures

I was chatting the other day with The Sales Leader, the amazing Colleen Francis, when she challenged me that my previous article 7 Steps to 7 Figures should have focused on 8 Steps to 8 Figures. I accepted the challenge as we quickly decided to write a new article, have some fun with it, and not use any of my previous points. So thank you Colleen for the challenge and taking the initiative. Here is Colleen’s original post on her blog:...

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