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Show Topics:

• Podcasting/iTunes question
• What does my average day look like?
• Striking a balance between finding new clients and working with current clients
• Getting past the idea phase and doing something
• My new project

Ray sent me an email because he heard I was having problems with my description in the iTunes store. I have it fixed and a solution for you if your description gets pushed way down within iTunes. I also talk a bit about the audio player plugin and customizing it.

Dustin has a question about what my typical day looks like. How do I balance my time working with current clients vs. finding new ones. (more…)

As it turns out, I’ve been using my thumbs too much. It’s likely you were raised as I was; taught to put two spaces between sentences. That dot at the end of a sentence is normally called a period, but its real name is a “full stop”.

Initially, typewriters used a font where each letter took up the same space. The letter “i” took just as much space as the letter “m”. Two spaces were added at the end of a sentence to help the reader better detect that full stop.

As it turns out, computers solved all of that. Unless you’re using a monospaced font like courier (you must have some real problems) the reader can very easily distinguish a single space.

In fact, most books (including mine) have only one space, as do magazines and newspapers. Imagine my surprise to learn this for the first time this week.

Why You Should Care

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Show Topics:

• Better newsletter response rates
• How to spend time on Twitter without wasting your time
• How to get started as a coach
• Is twitter adder a good service (I’m not linking it here if that tells you anything)
• How I transitioned from a Financial Coach to a Life, then Business Coach
• What marketing tools I’ve used to become successful

Lately I’ve had a much better response and open rate to emails.  I share why and what you can be doing with your newsletter to achieve the same.

I was approached with a question from someone whose wife thinks he’s wasting time on twitter when he’s supposed to be building a business.  That’s a tough one to tackle, but I have an answer.

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My friend Bill Davis gave me this formula as a guide to know when to outsource instead of doing something yourself.  Outsourcing can be helpful, but can also be hard to jump in to for the first time.

I’ve included numbers as an example and to help you dream.  You can take it a step further and make up your own.  Remember to run numbers for the future (what you want to happen) rather than just based on today’s numbers.

Yield per hour
Target income ($100,000)

Number of weeks worked per year (45)
Number of hours worked per week (35)

= 1,575 hours per year

$100,000 / 1,575 = $63.49/hour

That’s the number you need to earn to life the lifestyle you want. If you can pay less per hour for a task (personal or business) and it can be outsourced, an argument can be made that it should be outsourced.

When you first outsource, it’s easiest and usually best to have that person do something you’re not good at and grow from there.

There are some cases where I wouldn’t outsource though, even when the numbers make sense.  Sometimes people want and need to deal directly with you.  Other times, the quality would severly suffer.  This formula should get you thinking though.

Check out Cliff’s virtual assistant podcast if you want to dive deeper.

I suggest crafting a list right now of 20 things you could outsource.  What are your top three?

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I didn’t quite make it to the trail like I wanted to, today. It was a busy day for me and I wanted to wrap some stuff up before a two week road trip. Here’s my solution to still get outside and think.

More Trail Talk videos

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your business is leave it. Don’t try that with your spouse, by the way. Set your business up so it will run itself in your absence, and then get away so you can think. I guarantee you’ll be rockin’ it with ideas when you come back.

Are you unplugging over the holidays?

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076 Coach Radio – Joined by the Drummer of Big Daddy Weave

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Jeff Jones is the drummer with Big Daddy Weave.  He joins me to talk about multiple things he has going on in his business.

Passive income is a big stategy for Jeff, especially since he’s on the road and in his tour bus so much.  Jeff manufactures custom drum sticks and does a lot of business with big bands, and also individuals.

In addition, we talk about Jeff’s latest book, Drumming up Business to the Beat of My Own Drum.

Part of Jeff’s mission is to start businesses that helps people.

Connect with Jeff on twitter – @jeffdrummer.

This is a behind-the-scenes look at the Big Daddy Weave tour bus.

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I stay pretty busy throughout my day, so being efficient is important. In this video, I cover a few tips to help you keep your blog writing quick and concise so you can focus on other parts of your business as well.

How can you simplify? Let’s talk about it – I could use more ideas.

How to Write a Killer Blog Post in Only 5 Minutes (if you can’t see this video)