Sales
Sales
What To Do When You Get Your First Consulting Lead
Congratulations! You’ve been putting in work and figuring out how to get people coming to you looking for your services,…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
The Solopreneur to Entrepreneur Transition
I work directly with expert solopreneurs to help them make this shift, to build a small agency that supports their lifestyle and leaves them with plenty of profit and plenty…
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Quit Making Emotional Decisions About Business Growth
Let’s Talk About Making Marketing Investments I’m frustrated. Why? Because I’ve been building a business in the marketing consulting industry…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
How To Get Consulting Clients
This post was originally meant to go directly on the Entrepreneur subreddit because it is a question I get asked…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Thinking Through Entrepreneur Growth
So I’ve been thinking recently about what it means to grow up as an entrepreneur and a professional. Last week,…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
What Snorkeling in Costa Rica Taught Me About Productivity
I am currently in Costa Rica with my family for the holidays. Every day my wife and I (and sometimes a…
Marketing
Marketing
Why Marketplaces Should Create Content for PR Purposes
My business specialty is marketplaces. I’ve worked with close to a dozen marketplaces over the last few years, including founding…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
How To Grow Your Business
Are you an entrepreneur looking to grow your business fast? Or maybe you are a Director/VP of Marketing and struggling…
Marketing
Marketing
On TWiStartups talking technical startup content marketing
Last week, I had the immense privilege to be a guest of Jason Calacanis‘s on This Week in Startups. For…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
A Failed Productivity Experiment – Afternoon Sales Calls
Do you experiment with your schedule to optimize your time and productivity? I do, and I recently ran a test…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
How I Built Two Six Figure Companies in One Year with $617 in Paid Plugins (And a ton of work)
One year ago today, I embarked into the land of entrepreneurship. A year in, my software business just recently reached…
Marketing
Marketing
Dollar Shave Club and Content Marketing
Dollar Shave Club, the disruptive direct-to-consumer shaving blades and products company, just sold to Unilever for 1 billion dollars cash.…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Finance Night
When I wrote my story of getting laid off and why I’m an entrepreneur now, I mentioned something in the…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
My Biggest Professional Mistakes
Recently I saw Jason Lemkin tweet his answer to “What Has Been Your Biggest Career Mistake?“, and it got me…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
On Being Willing To Fail
Too many of us live our lives in fear of failing. While some have a fear of flying, I think…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
CredoCamp – Lessons Learned Working Remotely
There are many perks to running your own business, and mine specifically lets me work with amazing marketers and entrepreneurs…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Bootstrapped vs VC – Building Houses Before Skyscrapers
I love architecture. Part of the reason why I worked in rentals/real estate for a while was so that I…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Why I Create Side Projects I Never Finish
The Internet is littered with side projects that never received the attention they could have and thus never took off…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
How Getting Laid Off Led Me To Double My Salary and Follow My Entrepreneurial Dream
Update: thanks for all the amazing reactions to this post! I have loved reading all of your emails/tweets/direct messages and…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Want To Be Successful? Become A Doer
I’ve been working on the Internet for what feels like a long time now – 6 years. In that time,…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
HireGun Launched Today
Today I launched HireGun (now known as Credo) to the world via Medium and Product Hunt. It has been quite…