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06/16/2026

It is a specific benefit that matters to your target customer and clearly separates you from everyone else.

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06/11/2026

A Market Dominating Position (MDP) is the unique value your customers perceive that makes you the logical choice over your competitors.

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06/10/2026

As Cameron Herold writes in Vivid Vision, organizations perform best when everyone understands the future they are working toward.

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06/04/2026

- Automatically asks for reviews after each job (at peak customer happiness)

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06/04/2026

Yet some businesses seem to thrive regardless of economic conditions while others constantly struggle to attract customers.

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05/27/2026

# The Fitness Coach Who Didn’t Have a Position

I met with an online fitness coach today.

The guy is a machine.

Disciplined. Focused. Relentless about helping his clients succeed.

By every measure, he’s a great trainer and coach. He genuinely cares about the people he works with, and the results they achieve clearly matter to him.

But during our conversation, something interesting surfaced.

Like many business owners, he spends a tremendous amount of energy focused on client acquisition — constantly trying to generate new conversations, new leads, and new opportunities.

At the same time, he’s deeply committed to his current clients and the retention required to keep delivering results at a high level.

That balancing act creates a challenge:
How do you consistently grow the business while simultaneously serving the people already inside it?

As we dug deeper, I asked him what made him different.

He mentioned:

* in-person training,
* online coaching,
* NFL athletes he’s worked with,
* his experience,
* his training style.

But the answers bounced around.

Then something important came out:
His *real* client is the woman over 40.

That’s where his passion is.
That’s where he sees the biggest transformation.
That’s where he creates the most impact.

Yet none of his positioning clearly reflected that.

All of his marketing today is done organically through social media conversations. He reaches out, starts discussions, builds relationships, and works with the people most interested in his model.

So I asked him a simple question:

“How does your ideal client know you are specifically for them?”

Silence.

Then I asked:
“What exactly is the model?”

Again, there wasn’t a clear structure.

And that’s where I see many businesses struggle.

Not because they aren’t talented.
Not because they don’t work hard.
Not because they don’t care.

But because they haven’t clearly defined:

* who they serve,
* what makes them different,
* and why someone should choose them over every other option available.

Most businesses believe they have a lead generation problem.

Often, they have a positioning problem.

A Market Dominating Position isn’t just a slogan or tagline.

It’s clarity.

It’s the ability for the right customer to immediately say:

> “That’s exactly who I need.”

When positioning is unclear:

* marketing becomes inconsistent,
* lead generation feels harder,
* referrals become random,
* and growth depends too heavily on constant outreach.

But when positioning becomes sharp and specific:

* trust increases,
* conversions improve,
* messaging becomes easier,
* and the right customers begin finding *you*.

My advice to him was simple:

Build a compelling offer and a clear Market Dominating Position so strong that anyone visiting your profile immediately understands:

* who you help,
* what transformation you create,
* and why your approach is different.

Because the businesses that grow the fastest are rarely the ones talking to everyone.

They’re the ones clearly speaking to the right someone.

05/25/2026

We found $200k in lost profit. It was hiding in plain sight, inside the business.

The founder I met last quarter was frustrated. Revenue was steady.

But profit was flat. He assumed he needed more customers.

More leads. More advertising.

We sat down and looked at the numbers together. What we found was not a revenue problem.

It was a conversion problem. A pricing problem.

A retention problem. Small gaps in each area.

Nothing dramatic on its own. But together, they were quietly draining profit.

We made a few targeted improvements. Adjusted the pricing structure.

Tightened the follow-up process. Improved the onboarding flow.

No new ad spend. No new hires.

Within 90 days, profit increased by nearly 40 percent. The owner's reaction was telling.

He said, "I was so focused on getting more revenue, I missed the profit already inside my business." That is the aha moment I see most often.

Revenue is visible. Profit is hidden.

The fastest path to profitability is often not growth. It's optimization.

Curious where hidden profit opportunities may exist in your business? Send me a message.

05/22/2026

So here's something that's been bugging me about search lately. We used to just optimize for Google, right?

Keywords, backlinks, meta descriptions. You do the SEO dance, you rank, you get clicks.

Simple. But now?

People are asking ChatGPT what to buy. They're searching on Reddit for honest reviews.

They're watching TikTok to find a new restaurant. And they're getting answers from Google's AI Overviews without ever clicking a link.

I ran a little experiment last month. Checked my organic traffic on a site that's been ranking #1 for a key term for years.

Traffic dropped 40%. Rankings?

Still #1. The clicks just aren't coming like they used to.

That's because search isn't just search anymore. It's become a distributed discovery game where AI decides who to cite and who to ignore.

So what actually works now? First, stop obsessing over keywords alone.

AI engines care about entity relationships and topical authority. They want to know if you're the real deal, not just someone who stuffed a term 50 times.

Second, structure your content for answers. Schema markup, clear Q&A formats, concise summaries.

Make it easy for an AI to pluck your insight and say "this is the answer." Third, build real authority.

Not just links. I'm talking about being cited by other authoritative sources, having real people talk about you, showing up in places that matter.

And finally, measure differently. Clicks aren't the goal anymore.

Influence is. Track brand mentions in AI responses, citati

05/19/2026

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05/19/2026

I'm about to share the marketing roadmap that built multi-million dollar businesses.

No fluff. Just what works.

Most marketing fails because it's logical. People don't buy with logic. They buy with emotion, then justify it with logic afterwards.

So stop selling features. Start hitting their hot buttons.

Here's what I've seen work time and time again:

Market to the negative. People avoid pain more than they seek pleasure. Address their biggest fears and frustrations. That's where the money is.

Be unique or be invisible. If you're everything to everyone, you're nothing to no one. Find your niche and own it.

Create extraordinary value. Price only matters when you look like everyone else. Give 4x the value for 2x the price. They'll line up.

Craft a 10-second pitch that makes prospects say "How do you do that?" That's when you've got them.

Ready to dominate your market? Stop guessing and start using a proven system.

Which of these do you struggle with most? Let me know in the comments.

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