It happens to the best of us – we put time and effort into calls, proposals created and sent, and follow ups to discuss the project and move them towards a close. But then we hear that they’ve gone with someone else. It hurts. You wanted (maybe needed) that business and it didn’t close. So […]
I sent this to my list today while I’m out of the country at a conference in Mexico. I’m probably standing in a pool right now attending a talk when this publishes. Three years ago I wouldn’t have done that, or would’ve been in my room working on my computer instead of present. So I […]
There’s a dream that many of you might have, which is going freelance. The truth though is that going freelance is scary and hard. You probably have responsibilities in life. Maybe you’re the only breadwinner in a family, or maybe you just need to cover your bills each month on your own. But you’re tired […]
As I run my business Credo and speak with consultants and agency owner all the time, I get two answers to my question of “What’s your biggest challenge in your business?”: Don’t have enough qualified leads to turn into clients; Don’t have enough time/working way too much. I recently polled a group of agency owners […]
On August 29th I gave a webinar about SEO monitoring in partnership with DeepCrawl, which is a site auditing/crawling tool that I’ve used for years and gotten to know the team at over the last year or so. You can see the landing page here and their recap and voice recording here. Here’s the presentation I […]
Last month was my 34th birthday. It wasn’t a special birthday and not a particularly exciting year, but we celebrated it in Steamboat Springs Colorado. Steamboat Springs is one of our favorite places in Colorado. We got married here, we’ve had multiple friends get married here, and we love to escape the heat of Denver […]