Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 173 Beware: You Might Be Getting Bad Advice Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 173

This week’s reflection point: Have you ever taken advice from someone—only to realize later that it actually hurt your success, instead of helped you? If so, you’re not alone. Bad advice is everywhere. And it’s crucial that you avoid taking it. Not long ago, I overheard a speaker give the following advice to his audience: Forget about marketing, and just publish. This was a popular speaker who attracted a large crowd; I couldn’t believe the advice he gave. Marketing is...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 172 Creating Amazing Content Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 172

This week’s reflection point: One of my favorite exercises that I conduct with my clients or during my speaking presentations is the creation of amazing content. I ask them the following: What is one of the key challenges your clients are facing? What are three powerful insights you could share with them to overcome this challenge? What is then the action they could take to transform their success or what provocative question could you ask to mobilize them to next...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 171 Growing Your List Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 171

This week’s reflection point: One of the biggest potential impacts on your business growth is the continued expansion and leverage of your list. The list is the file containing the information about your clients, prospective clients, colleagues, partners and anyone interested in your company. Here are some insights and examples of various ways to grow your list: Publishing: Create content and offerings in a variety of formats and invite your audience to subscribe and participate. An example would be a...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 170 How Contextually Colorful Is Your Content? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 170

This week’s reflection point: Ever wonder what are the attributes of great content and how to effectively position such on your site and blog? I suggest that your content should be: Practical Provocative Insightful Interesting Entertaining Humorous Inspiring Counterintuitive Offered in various media formats Easy to share Succinct Irresistible to consume and go viral Enticing to take action Although these attributes are important for the creation of powerful content, visual interest is another key attribute of great content. Unfortunately, too...

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