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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch – A List of Quotes

This is one of the best books I’ve read on culture, creativity, storytelling and God. Thank you Andy Crouch for creating such a beautiful, wise piece of work. Here are my favorite quotes from the book. – Ami Mariscal Ch 1 5:47 Which has developed an imposing apparatance “Terry Eagleton observes not re-assuringly that culture has been called the second most complicated word in the human language, after nature.” – Andy Crouch Ch 1 33 min Making sense of the world, interpreting it’s wonder and it’s terror is left up to human beings alone. So how do we make sense …

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Top Books on Story and Storytelling

By Ami Mariscal Last Updated May 10, 2017 The Story Factor Annette Simmons 2006 Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact Annette Simmons 2015 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Steven Pressfield 2012 Rising Strong Brené Brown 2015 Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling Andy Crouch 2013 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull 2014 The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era Teressa Iezzi 2010 Positive Psychology at …

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Grow Your Money Tree Digitally – Social Media Campaign System Map

  Today, small businesses can capture the attention of Internet users and convert them into clients. This is achievable through social media campaigns. These are advertising efforts targeting particular types of Internet users. These advertising campaigns can be ran on social media platforms such as Facebook or Google Plus. Are you running a small business and seek to grow through online advertising? You can use the Grow your Money Digitally social media campaign advertising map. What is this Digital Marketing System about and what does it contain? Read on to discover more. What does this map contain? The map contains …

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Talk About Your Company Ideals and Win Big

No one wants to receive product advertisements from the same company 5 days a week. However, people will gladly receive and even share content that’s about hi-level values and ideals. Top performing brands are built on ideals that transcend products and services. And that doesn’t mean you have to change your business model and become a benefit corp. It simply means focusing your marketing message on things that more people want to connect with. Brands built on ideals are 390.2% more valuable than the average S&P 500 brand.* *Source: http://www.jimstengel.com/grow/research-validation/ “Jim Stengel conducted a ten-year growth study of more than …

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What Everybody Should Know About Efficient Marketing

Across multiple studies in almost any given year, the number one concern for most business owners is attracting new clients. Attracting new clients is also much more expensive than retaining customers, so it pays to know how to do it… Literally 🙂 The Benefits of Focusing on Your Top 20% Prospects There are two major benefits to focusing on your top 20% prospects that I describe in this YouTube video, which is queued-up at the perfect time to start watching via this link https://youtu.be/JujO-kJ4l8A?t=3m38s. In the video I talk about two huge mistakes almost all businesses make which can be solved by …

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You Don’t Have to Burn Out to Be Successful – Key Relationships to Put Your Business On Autopilot

You cannot scale up a business without building relationships. If your marketing system is a series of campaigns that work together to bring you leads and get more sales, then your prosperity system is a series of campaigns that also includes bringing you more relationships such as investors and team members. Here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the relationships you’ll want to build to scale up your business. Key Relationships to Scale Up Your Business – A Comprehensive List Clients / Buyers / Prospects  Users Payers Multi-sided Markets Internal Team  Interns An assistant Employees Outsourced Help   Accountant, …