How You Can Cut the Cable Cord In 5 Steps

You love cable watching television. Who doesn’t? All those thrilling shows that help you escape your otherwise dull lives. Where would you be if you didn’t have access to cable television?

It turns out, you would be just fine. In fact, you’d probably have more time and energy to check off a few items from that ever-expanding to-do list.

We decided to shift our TV viewing habits. It wasn’t easy, and there remain a few struggles, but the fact we are no longer trapped by the monthly cable bill has given us a bit more ownership of our lives. Here’s how we did it, and how you might be able to do the same:

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Free Marketing

FREE

It’s an odd word, Free.

These days, it’s normally tied to a bevy of hooks you don’t want to sign up for or ladders you don’t want to climb through.

We’re removing the hooks and ladders.

We’re offering our services – marketing, sales, copy writing, copy editing, design, technical – to you.

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The Best Telephone for the Home Office

Ok, it’s time for me to geek out a bit.

Here’s the thing – I’m a keyboard guy. The less I have to do using the mouse, the better it is. By picking up my hand from the keyboard to perform a mouse task takes little time. But, over the course of an entire day / week / month / year, it eats up quite a bit of time.

Staying with this principle, I don’t like using the phone. It’s not that I don’t like talking on the phone, or talking with people, it’s just using the phone is so very inefficient. Imagine:
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Free Case Study – Establishing Long-Term Contacts

I’ve been thinking about publishing a lead / demand generation case study in one form or another for a few months now. I mean, I had great success in a recent trip from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and I think the lessons I learned might be applicable to others.

If you don’t want to read the intro,
feel free to jump ahead and download the Free Case Study.

After talking with a bunch of people over the past few weeks, it’s become apparent to me that this might be a good time to do something about it.

Plus, with the emergence and acceptance of using social media for business, it seems that there’s less and less reasons to hop on a plane for a meeting. Consider:

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