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Resonates. How about you?

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Gosh darn - and here I am sitting just few rows back from said jet cockpit - and not a sticker to be found.

🪦 so long Pete - thank you - I guess you’re now on the inside - looking outside - is it very different?

🔗 National risks being eaten alive by NZ First & ACT

Dear Christopher (Luxon) .. I know Washington DC is a long way a way .. but there are some lessons there .. you can watch in real time the future of New Zealand .. at least the future based on the current trajectory.

So where do all the cool kids head to get their leather / Faux leather iPhone cases these days?

It’s been 5 years since I bought my last one and this Apple Silicon stuff is definitely not cutting it.

💬 a fine piece of analysis from Kevin Drum.

🔗 The Onion has won the bid for Infowars’ assets. .. a perfect home.

“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”

Someone suggested that Coldplay playing to 150,000 over three nights has ‘injected millions into local economy’. Not sure I see it … until I know if local economy is ‘Auckland’ or ‘New Zealand’ .. and how many people in each of those are really from ‘out of town / country’.

So I will plant this post in various places across the inter webs as I reach out to find those customers that need what I do.

The link is worth clicking on, but that’s not really what this is about. Except, in a way, it kinda is… let me explain.

This part of John’s business model is a weekly sponsorship. He sells them upfront. He can sell two on the same week. And if one becomes open suddenly

Here’s the deal: my calendar is showing some similar gaps. Now, I don’t operate exactly like John Gruber—heck, we’re not even in the same space—but at the core, the goal is the same.

And honestly, for-profit organizations aren’t as different from each other as we might like to think.

I like to imagine every organization as a magic box. It takes inputs—people, capital, resources—and transforms them into outputs: products and services that are sold to customers. Ideally, every window of time is filled with something that generates revenue for the business.

These are sold to customers. Ideally, every window of time is filled with something that generates revenue for the business.

This urgency is one reason why so many rush to create products that can “make money while you sleep.” The aim is to replace perishable inventory with non-perishable. And while that’s a great approach, it’s not what I do, because—despite what I just said—every organization is unique.

So here I am, reaching out to the internet to help fill those gaps.

If you have a business—or know someone who does—that’s struggling to boost revenue, let’s chat. I’ve got frameworks, methods, and a book that’s gotten some praise from fellow writers worldwide.

Over the years, I’ve tried it all: flywheels, funnels, category marketing, guerrilla sales, challenger sales, social selling—you name it, I’ve probably experimented with it.

Here’s the biggest takeaway:

It’s all about the synergy of teamwork and a shared purpose.

If you’re ready to turn those inputs into something extraordinary, drop me a line. Let’s make some magic happen.

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