Treatise: The Critical Importance of Being Unreasonable

[amprotect=all,amsilent]Hi [name_f],[/amprotect] Do you ever tell yourself “I need to…“, or “I don’t have a choice…“, or just feel frustrated that you’re not yet the person you really want to be? Here’s what I learned: It’s critically important to be unreasonable. Unreasonable defined:  When you want – and expect to get – something you can’t…

Continue Reading →

Testimonial: “Let me emphasize that we thought we had a plan. We were just too close to see all its holes.”

“My partner and I are building a new business around a great product for independent pharmacists. We have initial customers and we’re ready to grow. “We had a plan for bringing in a surge of new customers by leveraging a speech I’d be giving at an important industry event. Because it was so important for…

Continue Reading →

How to speed up sales by slowing down.

“A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won’t sit on a cold stove, either.” – Mark Twain When the know-it-all pontificator looks down her nose and says “Never make the same mistakes twice!” I grunt and run. Like any of us haven’t made the…

Continue Reading →

“His chutzpa got me here!” He pointed at me from the far side of the conference table, 18 feet away…

Al had been in the air force, overseen a national tragedy and then went on to be CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company. And there he was – sitting at a meeting I had organized with a dozen other CEOs.  They’d come to share their thorniest dilemmas and be reminded that their businesses and their troubles are not as…

Continue Reading →

Bonus Podcast # 1: Your First Big Decision

Continue Reading →

Testimonial: “I still systematically review our notes, five years later…”

Hi Dov, Just wanted to let you know: 1.   I read your newsletters religiously. They help to reinforce all I have learnt from you over the years. 2.   I am reviewing systematically (5-10 pages a day) all my notes from the coaching period. This serves me at least 2 purposes; one to see how…

Continue Reading →

Answer 3 questions to help me give you free training on how to get more quality customers in less time.

If you’ve been here a while, you know that I’ve given away some really powerful free training to my subscribers, including what is now a $149 product called “How to Win Your Customers’ Hearts – by Reading Their Minds.” I’m now creating some more free training for you that will teach you how to systematically and…

Continue Reading →

Why “best thinking” beats “best practices” every time.

Business authors often conjure up the most bizarre management theories and then “prove” them by pointing to current business media darlings like Google, Apple and _____ (who will it be today?). Book after book and article after article points to what this or that company did to achieve their success – and advises that you…

Continue Reading →

How to get both profit and satisfaction from your business.

Are you struggling with profit, satisfaction, or both? Some business owners are doing what they love, but not making money.  Others are making money, but get no satisfaction. Many make no money and get no satisfaction. But they sure do put in many hours! Then there are the few, the artists, the Alchemist Entrepreneurs™, who…

Continue Reading →

Testimonial: “Prior to doing the course, I wasn’t very serious about building my business…”

Hi Dov This is just a quick email to express my appreciation for the Alchemist Entrepreneur’s Crash Course. Prior to doing the course, I wasn’t very serious about building my business.  In fact, I was frequently being distracted and wasn’t getting that much done. After going through your course, I’m glad to say I’ve been…

Continue Reading →