I love statistics, and I came across a really interesting one this week when I was browsing the Harvard Business Review. A Corporate Executive Board study recently asked the question, “What makes consumers more likely to follow through?” In other words, what makes a product or a business “sticky”—likely to be used, loved and passed along? The answer? Simplicity.
Content Development
Why Ideal Customer Exercises Aren’t Enough
There are aspects of my business when quick and good is “good enough,” because I know speed to market is crucial. However, when it comes to knowing and understanding my core audience, there is no such thing as “good enough.” What I’ve learned—after many years, many products and many successful promotions—is that having only a surface understanding of the people I want to work with is not going to help me create a best-selling product. If you were anything like me in my early days of running my business, you might have a decent sense of your audience, collected from […]
Do You Make This One Mistake in Your Business Planning?
I am knee-deep, head down, 175% focused on a few big weeks of filming I have coming up. With so much going on, sometimes it just feels like there’s not enough time in the day! In fact, as I write this, I’m skipping lunch to wolf down a Pure Protein Peanut Butter Bar. And apparently I’m not alone—one-third of us feel so time-crunched we don’t take a lunch break at all.
3 Keys to Generating Content that Gets Results
Did you know that in 2013 Tumblr.com alone housed over 101.7 million blogs?! That’s a mind-boggling number: 101.7 million. And that’s only for Tumblr. Imagine all the other blogging sites out there, plus all the bloggers who host their own sites. Huge, right? So this got me thinking: When you’re competing with so much noise in the marketplace, how do you make sure your content rises above the noise and truly resonates with your audience?