I’m a huge fan of the Side Hustle Nation podcast hosted by Nick Loper (I’ve even been a guest on the show 2 or 3 times). In a recent episode Nick spoke with Dustin Riechmann about new sales he created for an existing company in his city — a butcher shop selling a higher-end, clean-ingredient […]
When I think of idea generation and brainstorming, I think of adaptation and variation on concepts and themes. A single concept in a brainstorming session can lead to dozens of other ideas that splinter off the original concept through adapting the concept to other specific purposes and varying elements of the concept to alter the […]
One of the challenges I see salespeople struggle with are ways to stay in contact with customers from an account nurturing approach. They are very good at sending salesy emails about their products and services, they’re pretty good at calling customers to schedule sales appointment, and fairly adept at sending out sales brochures — why […]
The meaning behind the phrase “every dog has its day” is intended to imply that every person regardless of their status has a period of power and influence. I think the same concept can be applied to the ideas we generate. Not all of your ideas might be applicable or realistic right now, but someday […]
Because of the fairy tale in which a princess smooches a frog and it magically transforms into her true love (which incidentally is also how the Coronavirus really came into being), the phrase “you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince” has come to mean that finding true love can be […]
There are plenty of ideas that leave a bad taste in your mouth (especially in an election year), but I ran across a fresh new idea that is designed to leave a good taste in your mouth. This is not a paid or endorsed post (although I did use a referral link to the website), […]
Are you the dreamer or the doer? Sometimes people can be both, but if you ask them — they’ll have a preferred role. In the case of those Disney boys, Walt and Roy (you may have heard of them), Walt was the guy with the imagination and vision and Roy was the guy with the […]