The objective of this blog is to stop you from wasting your time and money. All business conferences can be a really profitable use of your time and money Most business conferences are a total waste of your time and money. Blimey he’s old I have been in business for 40 years and in that time I’ve…
One definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result The answer to the question in the title (above) is simple and yet just about every company conference organising group repeats the same mistake every single year and every single time: Virtually NO speaker rehearsal. ‘Hey…just a…
Are you ready for the next bit of getting yourself very rich in the next 1000 days? Good, you’ve come to the right place> BTW somebody just asked me about this blog’s title. What I want you to think about when you read it is that One Million Days have not yet passed since the…
The objective of this blog is very simple: To put more money into your bank account. It really doesn’t matter whether you believe what you will discover here; the methods work for everybody who applies them. I am not a new-age ‘tree hugger’. I am a sober middle-aged businessman, very wealthy, not particularly ‘green’. I fly…
Luck?! …of course I believe in luck. How else can we explain the success of the people we don’t like?” said Jean Cocteau the 19th Century French Dramatist. And he’s right, isn’t he? I mean, look at all those scoundrels, liars, and rogues who get all the breaks! Typical. As for me I work hard…
If business proposals were judged solely on their weight and volume (rather than content and focus), then most of them would be very successful. The problem is that, somewhere in sales folklore, there are two fairy-stories about proposals that, most proposal writers appear to believe, will cast the magic ‘buy-this-one’ spell over any prospective customer.…
“I don’t mean to be rude but…….”: has become the unofficial catchphrase of Simon Cowell the owner and main judge of the UK/ USA TV talent show “The X Factor”. Often in the past 6 months, these words have sprung to my mind when attending face-to-face business networking events. Do the attendees really know how…
About 25 years ago a major global airline conducted a light-hearted survey amongst its First and Business Class passengers. They wanted to discover what type of people traveled in the front cabins of their airplanes. The most surprising discovery they made, was that 80% of these outwardly successful and confident travelers, when asked anonymously, confessed…
I’ve just returned from a business trip to New York. I lived there for nearly seven years in the 1990s. It is a great place to do business if you can provide what they need (in my case top class sales training). But many of the things you may think you know about NY (or…
As a serial entrepreneur, I often get asked by other people: “What business would you suggest I start….right now….in the middle of all this ‘Brexit’ uncertainty?” I could be deliberately difficult and ask “Well what type of business would you love to start?”, as your answer to that question will ultimately determine whether or not…
People in my family and many of my friends, are blessed with ‘20/20 hindsight’ …they love to be ‘right’…they frequently remind me that they “told me so”. They particularly love my business mistakes and mishaps and use these as a reason to predict my imminent downfall. They have been predicting it now for several decades.…
There is a little list of common phrases sentences and questions that unintentionally murder (or at least ‘self-harm’ any persuasive encounter. Successful business persuaders never use them…or at least they struggle not to. The vast majority of average sellers, persuaders, and managers use them all the time then wonder why they fail to persuade or…