Monday Mash-Up

Tech Tip Make Sure Your Emails Are Configured Properly I recently installed an extension in my Chrome browser called Email Detective that can check any email in my inbox and tell me whether the technical stuff is right. You don’t need to know what “SPF,” “DKIM” and “DMARC” are. But you need to make sure…

Tech Tip Control of Your Domain to Avoid Digital Nightmares You probably have registered one or more domains for your website. But if you needed to make changes to where those domains point, do you have access to do that? Too many business owners hand over the keys to their kingdom and lose control so…

Recommended Resource Craft: More than a Notetaker, Less Complex Than Notion If you’re looking for an application for note-taking, document management, task tracking, white-boarding, journaling, and more — but you don’t want an overly complex app like Notion — Craft may be the solution. Available on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, and the Web, Craft is…

Recommended Resource The Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm Guide for Marketers I recently downloaded the The Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm Guide for Marketers from Trust Insights and found it very useful. It cuts through the guru noise and explains how LinkedIn’s AI-driven system actually evaluates your content. Updated through March 2026, it includes three practical checklists — for…

Recommended Reading 💡How to Communicate with Humans (by John Carlton) The secret weapon of elite salespeople — and the thing most people completely lack — is empathy. Not sympathy (feeling bad for someone), but true empathy: the ability to intellectually step into someone else’s shoes and understand what’s going on in their head while you’re…

Recommended Follow Allan Crockett: Helping You Fill the Void Beyond Business Success If you are a business owner — especially one who recently exited successfully or may be about to — you need to know Allan Crockett. He’s been posting great content on LinkedIn about what happens next after you exit your business. It’s all…

Recommended Videos 💡 Jeff Walker: This Skill Will Feed You for Life I love many things about this video. Here’s my favorite: “(Marketing) is nothing more than attracting your ideal people into your world and then being able to make an effective offer in a congruent, gracious way so that they want to step forward…

Recommended Book 📚 The 10 Commandments of Con Men… I was already an avid reader of John Bejakovic’s emails when I picked up his book “The 10 Commandments of Con Men, Pickup Artists, Magicians, Door-to-Door Salesmen, Hypnotists, Copywriters, Negotiators, Political Propagandists, Stand Up Comedians, and Oscar-Winning Screenwriters.” I read the book in one-sitting. The next…

Recommended Article and Video ️⭐ What Does it Mean to Be Wealthy In a recent session with business owners, I asked attendees to tell me the difference between “prosperity” and “profits.” The consensus: Profit is simply a measure of money; prosperity is about how you experience life. I was thinking about that discussion when I saw…

Recommended Video 🥂 The Secret Ingredients of Great Hospitality | Will Guidara A $2 hot dog helped make Eleven Madison Park the #1 restaurant in the world. Not because of the food. Because of what it meant. In this brilliant TED Talk, restaurateur Will Guidara explains the concept of “unreasonable hospitality”—the idea that people don’t remember…