Clarity Before Capacity: Why Referrals Matter More in the AI Era
Let me give credit where it is due before I start swinging. This piece was sparked by a recent Substack post from Dave Brock on capacity, clarity, and AI. Dave…
Owning Your Market: Stop Playing the Big Company’s Game
Whose game are you playing? For most small professional-services firms, the honest answer is the big companies game, and it’s quietly costing you nearly every deal you think you’re competing…
Who Owns Your Business?
Before you open another tab, scroll another feed, or rewrite another bio answer this question: who actually owns your business? Not the name on the articles of incorporation. Not the…
Stop Hoping. Start Scouting.
Here is an uncomfortable truth that nobody in the financial services industry wants to say out loud: most advisory firms are terrible at choosing clients. They will spend thousands on…
You’re Trying Too Hard: The Real Reason You Aren’t Giving and Getting More Referrals
Every single week, as I work and talk with clients, referral sources, and friends in business, I uncover the same thing: massive opportunities sitting inside referral networks, inside relationships with…
The Reality of Sales Today: You Were Chosen Before They Called You
My friend Adam Gray posted something on LinkedIn this week that stopped me mid-scroll. He was breaking down the 2025 6sense Buyer Experience Report, and one stat in particular hit…
Renting vs. Owning: The True Cost of Your Marketing Relationships
I told you so. I've been writing about human networking for a long time. And this week, Richard van der Blom dropped a newsletter that basically confirmed everything I've been…
The Beauty of Business by Referral: Building Relationships that Matter
This week I want to talk about something that lives at the very center of who I am and how I do business: I want to talk about beauty. Beauty…
Building Trust for Effective Referrals
Every real business can be pressure-tested by three questions. One, why should a prospect meet you? Two, why should a prospect choose to buy from you? Three, why should a…
The $60 AI Planning Tool Is Not the Threat to Your Business…Your 1% AUM Business Model Is.
“The market is moving from seeing AI as a productivity booster to seeing it as a fee-killer,” said Sarah Miller, a senior fintech analyst. “If a $60-a-month AI tool can…