Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 312 Season of Joy Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 312

Season of Joy It’s really cold outside, and fueled by the wind, the effect is truly bone chilling. But that doesn’t stop this Clevelander from enjoying the displays and frantic energy that abounds all around downtown as Laurel and I trekked around bundled up, with camera, zoom lenses and tripod. Surrounded by the ice skaters twirling, falling or just hanging onto railings for dear life, Cleveland residents and tourists leisurely strolled through the lit trees, twinkling arches and stopped to...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 311 Attributes of My Best Prospective Clients Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 311

A little over a year ago I reflected on the attributes of my best prospective clients and have reached the conclusions that there are nine key attributes: Responsive Serious Enthusiastic Honest Purposeful Ask Open Action Rewarding Here is the infographic my innovative design team created to present these visually: Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page.

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 310 Creating High Instant Credibility Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 310

Ever wonder how credibility is quickly gained and achieved when visitors arrive to your site? There are five critical components to attain such credibility. Here they are: Clients’ List: This is the page on your site that lists your clients by name and potentially also shows their logo or photo. The more clients listed the higher the credibility gained. Imagine visiting a page that only lists a few clients vs. one that shows hundreds of them. It should be obvious...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 309 New Web Presence for The Chad Barr Group Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 309

I am thrilled to announce the launch of our new web presence for The Chad Barr Group. This took several months of brainstorming, soliciting ideas from our clients, dedicated hard work by my amazing team while squeezing this huge project among the many other clients’ projects. And it’s finally here with my hope that it would serve YOU better by providing you with insights to create and strengthen your million-dollar web presence and global digital empire. So, what’s new? Here...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 308 Dominating the Web Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 308

Creating a powerful web presence is like putting together a complete jigsaw puzzle in just the right way. It’s not easy, but the end result is impressive and remarkable. Whether you run a small services company or a large corporation, the puzzle pieces are the same: strategizing, marketing branding, socializing, publishing and monetizing. Understanding how these six components fit together is critical to dominating the web. If you neglect one puzzle piece, the whole picture falls apart. So how do...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 307 Gratitude Filled Holiday Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 307

Photo by: Chad Barr – My amazing grandkids The British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote; “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” As Thanksgiving approaches, I am keenly aware of the blessings of which I am surrounded both personally and professionally. I am grateful for the friendship, help, advice and insight that my team, colleagues, clients and family so graciously provide me throughout the...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 306 Attributes of Million Dollar Producers Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 306

One of the questions I hear quite often is to identify the attributes of million-dollar producers. Here are the top 6 attributes I have observed: Build contacts: The ability to create and build a list of powerful contacts that consist of existing and potential clients, influencers, partners and journalists. The key is to consistently build and nurture this list to achieve great trust and a powerful brand. Market effectively: I often refer to them as marketing machines, which means, they...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 305 Transforming Your Web Success Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 305

In the article How to Promote Your Web Site that I wrote a little over six years ago, I discussed various ways of promoting and leveraging your web site to increase your web presence, global reach and success. Over the years I kept on adding more insights to this article and I use it as a powerful tool for review with my clients. Since I believe that a picture is often worth a thousand words, I had my creative design...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 304 To a Brighter Future Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 304

Photo by: Chad Barr How should I open this week’s newsletter? With the tragic events of last week that have shaken our nation to its core, it’s important for us to not dwell on the horror but to look beyond and find a way to heal this great nation. As you know, I’m an immigrant to this land, in the religious minority, where the opportunities for success, growth and freedom, personal and religious, were many. I spoke virtually no English...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 303 Time for Instantiation Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 303

Photo by: Chad Barr One of my favorite words is instantiation or to instantiate. Its meaning is to make the complex simple. My opinion is that we are all guilty (self included) at creating too much complexity in our life and business. Occam’s Razor theory suggests that of any set of explanations for an event occurring, it is most likely that the simplest one is the correct one. I work with some of the smartest individuals in the world. Yet,...

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