Beyond your bubble

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We often live in a bubble, an echo chamber of the same opinions, same people, same network, same customers and so on.

It’s great to be in a tribe of like-minded people that share your views and values.

However, in order to expand that within your business to new people, we have to burst out of our bubble.

This comes from sending a regular, consistent and relevant message. It comes with patience to add the right new people and not worry about just how long that might take. It comes from inspiring others beyond those already bought in.

The right message often enough is more important than short-cutting it by trading your values for sales and marketing manipulation and trickery. Sooner or later people find you and the ones who do, come because your cause matters.

Loyalty is built on values and that’s how to go beyond your current bubble.

Going through the motions

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It is better to do nothing than to tick a box because you’ve read or heard somewhere that it was a good idea to do social media, or to have a blog, a newsletter, a podcast, to do whatever the expert has told you.

Getting yourself ‘investor ready’ to satisfy that desire to get funding, when you may know that you don’t want a bigger business, but some ‘guru’ told you and everyone else is doing it.

Whatever it is you are doing, if it doesn’t matter to you, don’t do it just because it’s popular or someone told you to.

Otherwise you and your audience we realise you are just going through the motions.