Are You Working Too Hard for New Business?

Are You Working Too Hard for New Business? This note is for growing companies under 150 employees. Regardless of how fast you’re growing, on a scale from easy to hard, 1 to 5, how would you rank the effort expended to find more business? Think of 1 as “so easy that I have to pinch myself every day to see […]

Writing Content: What’s Your Company’s Tone of Voice?

Writing Content: What’s Your Company’s Tone of Voice? When your marketing team asks, “we’re thinking about using a conversational tone of voice for this piece, are you okay with that?” Do you find yourself getting annoyed and thinking, “why are you asking me? Isn’t this what I’m paying you for?” If so, this little article is […]

Not Being Your Own Worst Boss

Not Being Your Own Worst Boss Check out this interview I did on The Entrepreneur Way with Neil Ball. Neil is out of Manchester, England and I’m in Omaha, NE, but through the miracle of modern technology we had sit and a talk about sales and marketing. You can listen to it here: http://theentrepreneurway.com/podcast/164-not-being-your-own-worst-boss-with-greg-chambers-founder-and-owner-of-chambers-pivot-industries/ Neil […]

Newsletter #26 – Listening, Lay-offs, Dogs, Shoes

GREG’S RIGHT FIT NEWSLETTER #26 ———————————————————— Quick notes to help you get more done in less time. . . next week. In this issue: – Techniques for FIT – Being Human – Random Stuff – Amalgamate: Summer 2016 in the mail

Teleseminar: Getting the Most From Your Marketing Vendors

Teleseminar: Getting the Most From Your Marketing Vendors Have you ever said something like this? “I think there are as many ‘marketing consultant’ hucksters out there as there are Nigerian Prince internet scams…I want to grow, we NEED to grow, but finding truly talented and capable marketing and sales professionals is more difficult and painful than […]

Amalgamate: Summer 2016 (#3 in a series)

The Summer 2016 Edition of Amalgamate It’s here! The  Summer 2016 edition of my semi-annual collection of ideas for your business. This edition includes ideas on Decision Making, Managing Your People, and Persuasion tactics your team can implement today. If you received a copy of the Summer Edition 2015 and the Winter Edition 2015, you’re going to get the Summer […]

Where is your Energy Directed?

Where is your Energy Directed? This Father’s Day, I was invited to buy my family breakfast at the local pancake house. We weren’t the only ones in town with this idea, and were placed on a waiting list with a promised fifteen to twenty minute wait. I took mental note of who looked like they […]

Outcomes Not Outputs

Outcomes Not Outputs   This article originally appeared in Amalgamate: A Mix of Ideas for Your Business, Summer 2015 Your team of marketing professionals are expert communicators. Plying their trade in semantics. They love the discussion around the differences found in words like Outcomes and Outputs. To an industry outsider, those words may be synonymous to […]

Get More From NPS

Get More From NPS Are your people using the Net Promoter Score (NPS)? I have some valuable words and pictures to store in your head for next time you get NPS scores from the leadership team. . .easy ways for you to deepen the discussion. Pro tip #1: Get more from it by refusing to let it […]

Effort, Results, Time and FIT

Effort, Results, Time and FIT [an excerpt from my future book, “The Human Being’s Guide to Business Growth.”] Effort, Results, Time, and FIT Why is this important? It’s important because in a world where engineers are increasingly convinced that human behavior can be broken down into bits and bytes, this exercise reminds us that we’re […]