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Monday Mash-Up ~ Vol. 2, Ep. 47

By Tom Ruwitch

A Little-Used Strategy to Book More Clients — Without Paying + How to Create a Life You LOVE in 2022 + The Story of Content Will Spark Ideas for Your Biz + Wise Words from Carrie Fisher

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Home For The Holidays and Other Blessings…

By Tom Ruwitch

The wonders of technology. My wife, Melissa, and I spent yesterday checking the ā€œFind My Friendsā€ app on our iPhones, tracking the missing piece in our familyā€™s home-for-the-holidays puzzle Our son Jake hit the road early, with his dog Cooper in tow, to drive from his home in Fort Collins to ours in St. Louis.…

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How to Crank Out Client-attracting Content — The Easy Way

By Tom Ruwitch

Last week, Ben Settle promoted his book Breakneck Content for sale at a 20% discount. The book is all about how to crank out business-building content.   As usual, Ben cranked out tons of emails to promote the sale ā€“ at least one per day, sometimes more. I already have the book so I wasnā€™t shopping. But…

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Monday Mash-Up ~ Vol. 2, Ep. 46

By Tom Ruwitch

How to Answer Sales Objections + The Power of Sacred Time + My Octopus Teacher and the Habit of Noticing + The Power of Dishing Out Compliments + Daniel Pink Says the Future Belongs to Storytellers

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The #1 Quote of All Time? Could Be…

By Tom Ruwitch

Hereā€™s a quote that caught my eye. ā€œItā€™s the start that stops most people.ā€  Michael Senoff, who interviews marketing experts and then sells the recordings, shared that one in an email earlier this week.  He attributed it to his mentor and ā€œgreatest story collector,ā€ Rob Gilbert. He called it the ā€œ#1 QUOTE OF ALL TIME.ā€…

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How This One Little Question 3x’d Sales

By Tom Ruwitch

Over the weekend, I went to one of those big-box stores that camps a ā€œgreeter” by the front door. As I marched past him, he barely lifted his eyes from his phone as he mumbled, ā€œā€˜mornin.ā€ Some greeting! Made me think of the great marketing consultant Jay Abraham and a story he told about a…

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Monday Mash-Up ~ Vol. 2, Ep. 45

By Tom Ruwitch

A System for Scoring + How to Launch a Gifting Program to Wow Prospects and Clients + Why Your Free Consultation Offer Sucks (And How To Fix It!) + An Ode to John Prine + John Prine Wrote and Sang This…

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How NOT to “Suck on Sour Anxiety for The Rest of Your Days”

By Tom Ruwitch

Thereā€™s an old legend about the great mystery writer John D. McDonald. When he was just getting started, he heard writers donā€™t get ā€œgoodā€ until after they write their 10th novel.  That seemed like a long road to get to ā€œgoodā€¦ā€  So…he put it in gear and wrote 10 novels in ONE year.  In no…

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Curling Fans Screwed by “Secks” Toys

By Tom Ruwitch

Bad news for American curling fans. Big laughs for the rest of us.  And a great marketing lesson for good measureā€¦ Thereā€™s a company in the Netherlands that makes ā€œtoys.ā€  The kind of toys not suitable for childrenā€¦ …or prudes. “Adult” toys. (Wink, wink.) Anyhow, this toy company paid someone to put their logos on…

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Monday Mash-Up ~ Vol. 2, Ep. 44

By Tom Ruwitch

Angry Mother-of-Bride Delivers Important Mindset Lesson + James Clear: How to Get 1% Better Every Day + Marketing Legend Reveals 7 Copywriting Sins + #ReadThis #ImproveSocialReach + Gail Sheehy on Growth

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