Robby: You're listening to the Brand ED Bullet from the Brand ED Podcast.
Four freaky fast Friday wins to get you going for your weekend.
Let's go.
Win number one, something to try.
How many times do you find yourself staring at a great photo on your laptop?
Except there is a pesky unwanted detail, right in the middle of the photo.
Maybe it's a telephone pole behind you.
Maybe it's a box of Kleenex On a perfect shot of your desk.
Well, cleaning up photos used to mean you had to fire up
Photoshop, which is cha-ching expensive and also very hard to do.
Thankfully you have several online options now on one of those that's
really simple to use is called Cleanup.
I'll put a link to their website in the show notes.
Basically you go to the website, you upload your photo, You use a brush to
delete the unwanted object in your picture and voila, it magically disappears.
I'll include a link to a sample that I tried, so you can see how it works.
If you want to specifically remove the background of a picture, you
can try this free, hidden gym from Adobe, the makers of Photoshop.
I'll put a link to that in the show notes as well.
And another resource called Remove.bg.
Those are three great options to get that photo looking exactly the way you want it.
Win number two, something a client recently asked.
Uh, client called for some help, generating more leads.
Now business was going well, but they weren't satisfied and they knew
things could grow exponentially.
First we had to break down and separate the wants from the needs.
My client started with this.
I want more leads.
I asked him, well, what would having more leads do for your business?
I followed that with a series of, and what would that do for your business and
what would that do for your business?
Here's a quick bonus tip.
Notice, I used a, what question versus why do you want more leads?
Or why do you want this?
Why questions can unnecessarily put someone on the defensive?
So try a, what question in your coaching or consulting in these instances?
Now, back to my client.
As we dug deeper, I helped him see, well, I want more leads because I want more
sales and I want more sales because I want more revenue and I want more revenue
because ultimately I want more profit.
Perhaps you share my client's gut instincts where, you know,
you haven't tapped into the full potential of your business.
If that's, you don't give into the temptation to just think
you need more leads because like relationships, the faster you fall
into that, the harder you land.
Tune in next time and I'll share one of two great ways to scratch
that itch when you want new leads.
I'll give you a hint.
It's called Revy R E V.
I.
Feel free to email me from the show notes and tell me what your challenges are
when it comes to generating more leads.
Win number three, something to think about.
Here's a helpful question to gauge your own internal world.
Is accumulating power the primary means I'm using to accomplish my business goals.
Perhaps you're like me and you can sniff out a power grab pretty easily.
And others, whether that's politics or showbiz, or maybe it's big
corporate or it's a tech startup.
But how about when you hold your personal brand business up to the mirror?
Gulp.
I don't know about you, but I'm in a constant dog fight with
ignoring my own power grabs.
It's easy to hide under the banner of, "Well I'm growing my personal brand
and that's going to help others."
But what if the primary way I'm getting there is by
accumulating power over others.
What strategies do you use to keep your own internal powerplays in check
as you build and grow your business?
Email me back with how you're doing this.
I would love all the advice I could get.
Win number four, something personal.
Not long ago.
I was a little under the weather.
I don't know if it was the crud or maybe a tinge of the flu or COVID,
or just a bad cold, but to add to it.
It happened to land on a day when my older two kids were heading back to college.
If you hang around me or my podcast for very long, you'll learn that my
wife and I, we always get the blues when our kids head back because we
really enjoy our kids and we love them.
And so one thing I rely on when days like that come, I rely on my routine.
And one of the most helpful parts of my current routine is that I finished
my morning where I'm working on me.
I finished that time with a poem.
I'll share more about maybe what poem or resources later, if that's helpful.
But for now I wanted to share the primary takeaway about finishing
my morning time by reading a poem.
The poet model is a way of experiencing and expressing both the
sunshiny days and the stormy nights.
And man, do I need to learn that?
Not just to analyze the situation, not to just dissect it, not to avoid it or
to rationalize it, but to experience it.
And to all the poets out there, thanks for modeling a much different way
through life than the one I'm usually surrounded by in our current culture.
Thanks for joining me on this episode of the brand Brand ed bullet.
Good news.
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apps or other wins.
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