Mo Bunnell’s Best Quarter Ever
Mo Bunnell is the founder and CEO of Bunnell Idea Group. He’s a business development coach living in Atlanta with his wife and daughters. In the summer of 2015, Mo signed up for The Focus Course. As Mo shares in the video, things were already going pretty well. But after completing the Focus Course and
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What I Learned at My First Marketing Conference
Last week I was in San Diego for an online marketing conference. And I was blown away by the quality of the event. This was my very first “marketing” conference. And, to be candid, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My stereotyped assumption of marketing events is that they’re filled with tons of hype and
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The Value of Focusing on One Thing at a Time (Video)
There is significant value in having a clear goal, a single focus, and a deadline. When you have these things you work with greater efficiency, you produce a higher quality of work, and you have more fun doing so.
This is one of those things that we know in principle, but many of us do not actually walk it out. We take on every new idea we have, we say yes to too many incoming opportunities, and we just generally have too much going on at any given time.
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The Blanc Media 8-Week Work Cycle with Sabbaticals
For 2017 we decided to trying something new here at the Blanc Media Global Headquarters. It’s an 8-week schedule with six weeks spent on focused work, a single buffer week, and then a week of vacation.
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The Characteristics of a Successful Company
As I’ve mentioned, the half-day Basecamp event in Chicago had a huge impact on me. It has given me much food for thought in terms of how to create an entire company that has margin. My experience working for organizations — large and small — is that things are generally disorganized and everything is urgent
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The Basecamp Way To Work: Workshop Retrospective
This half-day workshop in Chicago had a massive impact on my approach to building a business, managing my time (and the time of those I work with), and more.
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