It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.