My thanks to you

My thanks to you

I’ve always been an ambitious person. It’s a positive quality in many ways, but it has a dark side.

The drive to do more and to be more can make us forget the sheer wonder of what we already are and already have.

There is a Buddhist proverb that goes like this: “Enough is a feast.” How true.

Eight years of blogging pays back big time

Eight years of blogging pays back big time

Owen McCall is a successful technology consultant based in New Zealand. I know McCall is successful because I happen to know how much he earns in revenue and, even though I am not telling you, it’s a figure that spells S U C C E S S.

McCall estimates that 60% of his business comes from referals within his network. The other 40% comes from his content marketing program. In other words, he gets a 40% lift in revenue as a result of publishing a monthly blog.

How LinkedIn revitalised a video star

How LinkedIn revitalised a video star

Mothers are some of the most efficient people you’ll meet.

They’ve got a lot of calls on their time. It wasn’t a problem with efficiency that led Jules Blundell to close down her full service marketing practice, Marketing Hands, to focus purely on video marketing; it was the need to be around for her twins, then four years old.

All ears on deck: The shareholder myth

All ears on deck: The shareholder myth

This sentence in a Sydney Morning Herald report about the diesel emissions scandal at the German car company Volkswagen struck me: “Corporate advisory groups have declared VW as having the worst corporate governance among its German peers, and it has been under attack by various shareholder groups over lack of board independence.”

In other words…