Comments on: How Desperate Decisions Can Destroy Your Business http://www.franklinmcmahon.com/how-desperate-decisions-can-destroy-your-business Franklin McMahon Studio specializes in Video Production, Photography, Marketing, Design, Web and SEO in Portland, Maine Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Franklin McMahon http://www.franklinmcmahon.com/how-desperate-decisions-can-destroy-your-business/comment-page-1#comment-460 Franklin McMahon Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:12:40 +0000 http://www.franklinmcmahon.com/?p=1050#comment-460 It's like being a gardener, its all about planting seeds. Always be planting. It takes time and focus, but creating awareness about what you do is a huge investment. And it needs to be right on the to-do list, right in the GTD list, "market and spread the word". Done daily and done creatively. Lots of in person with on-line too. You start to get people knowing of you before you actually meet them. You begin handing your card to someone and then they recognize the name and say "oh yeah!...". It's all about branding! :) The more you become known..the more options come your way :) It never fails... It’s like being a gardener, its all about planting seeds. Always be planting. It takes time and focus, but creating awareness about what you do is a huge investment. And it needs to be right on the to-do list, right in the GTD list, “market and spread the word”. Done daily and done creatively. Lots of in person with on-line too. You start to get people knowing of you before you actually meet them. You begin handing your card to someone and then they recognize the name and say “oh yeah!…”. It’s all about branding! :)

The more you become known..the more options come your way :) It never fails…

]]> By: Francisco Palacio http://www.franklinmcmahon.com/how-desperate-decisions-can-destroy-your-business/comment-page-1#comment-459 Francisco Palacio Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:36:53 +0000 http://www.franklinmcmahon.com/?p=1050#comment-459 Reminds me of a line on one of Tom Clancy's books that made it to the silver screen... someone portraying the Secretary of State... about always having "to keep his options open" or something along those lines: "The key is when you have one option, decisions will always be hard. If you have two or three options, decisions not only get easier but the benefit to you and your company dramatically increase. Marketing, ramping up your empire, networking, advertising, spreading the word about what you do…all of that work provides more options.... This expanding scope will typically provide an increase in options, allowing you to make decisions based more on your preference and not by desperation." (McMahon, 2009) Great!... kinda justifies my current drive for Networking online and offline as the key driver for future leads, and how valuable this time has been as the initial phase reaches a crescendo of meeting now with potential customers, repeat visits to preferred networks, and with it, the name recognition and 'branding' y'all are perpetually reminding us Entrepreneurial types 'bout... [HATS OFF!] Muchas Gracias! Reminds me of a line on one of Tom Clancy’s books that made it to the silver screen… someone portraying the Secretary of State… about always having “to keep his options open” or something along those lines:

“The key is when you have one option, decisions will always be hard. If you have two or three options, decisions not only get easier but the benefit to you and your company dramatically increase. Marketing, ramping up your empire, networking, advertising, spreading the word about what you do…all of that work provides more options…. This expanding scope will typically provide an increase in options, allowing you to make decisions based more on your preference and not by desperation.” (McMahon, 2009)

Great!… kinda justifies my current drive for Networking online and offline as the key driver for future leads, and how valuable this time has been as the initial phase reaches a crescendo of meeting now with potential customers, repeat visits to preferred networks, and with it, the name recognition and ‘branding’ y’all are perpetually reminding us Entrepreneurial types ’bout…

[HATS OFF!]

Muchas Gracias!

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