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How do we limit our sales through inadequate pricing or poor sales methods?

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How much do we limit our sales through inadequate pricing or poor sales methods…

How do we limit our sales through inadequate pricing or poor sales methods?

Most limitations start inside. To achieve external success, start inside. Then, flow outward with creative, effective and real money making strategies on pricing and sales.

Pricing, sales and marketing is not black and white. It’s complex, and requires the right tools, the right strategies and the right person.

I believe Warne Noyce is such a person.

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Bologna and peanut butter sandwiches….

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I’ve been scarred for life.

See, when I was fifteen or sixteen yrs old, we were poor. Very poor.

Actually, we had always been poor.  But at that time we were even poorer. My dad lost his business, declared bankruptcy (his second one) and kinda abandoned us for a while.

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See the light….Don’t let your skills live in a state of hibernation

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Cameras can’t find light direction. Only you can decide how to place light, decide on direction, intensity  and your final creation.

Light is light. Composition is composition. It all starts and end with your and your ability to see light.

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A slow, easy, patient, feeding just the right amount of fuel to the fire to see of it will catch…

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Bootstrapping. Innovating. Plunging into new markets.

I love sitting around the kitchen table and chatting about new ideas,
promotions, strategies and markets.


The temptation to getting off track is real….and one of the biggest mistakes is throwing money at an idea because we’re anxious, impatient.


I was chatting with a local photographer about this very idea. How I loved creating business this way. And, to be honest, one of my superpowers is the ability to determine how much to throw at an idea to see if it has life, without going overboard and over budget or becoming impatient and unrealistic in expectations.

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“If I get a Leica will my pictures look like yours?”

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Some things never change. One thing that hasn’t for me is my love of lenses.
Maybe I was impressed when I was 18 by my then college photography professor, Karl, who was from Germany, had a thick accent and scared the hell out of everyone with his booming voice and tall presence.
He would photograph grizzly bears, racing cars and motorcycles with his Leica 35MM camera and his images we’re stunning.

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“Many forces show up to drag you down…”

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“The road to failure and despair is littered with the dreams of those who failed to act upon them”
~Napolean Hill~

I love a good story of pain and struggle. You know, when everything seems lost, hopeless and doomed.

You see this in many, many movies. Problem is, in movies, you need this so they can tie it all together for the big climatic moment. “And they lived happily ever after….”

Yea, right….

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