Speaking of speaking to people

jeff noel's Jack the Bear in a classroom
Sharing common sense, world class business insights

 

Speaking of speaking to people, this morning’s keynote is about brand loyalty. The six stages of brand loyalty are a common sense approach for evaluating your brand equity and understanding your strengths and analyzing were to grow your equity. We are all striving for one thing above all others.

An emotional connection.

Emotion trumps everything else when it comes to brand loyalty.

And there are many intentional things that can drive an emotional connection. But do we understand them and focus intently on connecting the dots?

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What if we could overcome our midlife inertia?

Sign saying Lookout
Lookout, here come the Baby Boomers

 

What if we could overcome our midlife inertia?

Could we live like Baby Boomer entrepreneurs?

You know, full of creative, passionate entrepreneurial spirit.

What if?

What if we saw the remaining years as a startup company instead of as a declining one?

And if not now, when?

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Here’s when the perfect time arrives for us to finally get started on our big dream

excerpt from Seth Godin's Icarus Deception
begin reading here… “Giving up our attachment to what might happen…”

 

Here’s when the perfect time arrives for us to finally get started on our big dream. Drum roll please…

never

Our timing will never be perfect. If we wait, what happens?

Nothing.

Exactly.

The best time to start was yesterday. The second best time is today.

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Never let them see us sweat when we’re paying our luxury tax

Teenage chalk street message
Luxury tax is a price we are willing to pay, above the normal price, to move forward

 

Never let them see us sweat, right? Everyone sweats stuff. Small stuff. Big stuff. None of us is immune.

Know one of the things that really helps?

Being decisive.

This is difficult because of what we could lose or leave on the table.

What helps is factoring in the luxury tax. This is the price we pay extra, for the luxury of moving forward.

The tax is usually paid with money or time, above and beyond what is usual and customary.

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