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Beginnings

2025 is serious business. I remember years ago imagining what life would be like in 2025, and here we are. It’s great to see everybody. I hope you had a positive turning of the year. So we got to end 2024. And endings are important. How we leave things: relationships, jobs, clients, organizations, projects, and

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Raising the Floor

December 21st is the Winter Solstice and the longest day of the year. If you were to map the amount of daylight for the year on a graph, you would see that on that day, it will hit its nadir; it’s lowest point. When we hear about things, “hitting bottom,” or “bottoming out,” we tend

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Make More Money Setting Goals for Your Gold Mine 2025

Updated January 8, 2025 NYC Elevate is a networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. I often talk about Elevate being a gold mine, and most people think gold mining means that the miner will get large nuggets worth millions of dollars. But the reality of modern

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Make More Money With Santa’s Secret: Perception Is Everything

Elevate is a networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. We just finished Secret Santa so now I’m going to let you in on Santa’s secret: Perception is everything. We think that bad children will get a lump of coal in their stocking as a punishment for

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Make More Money Building Power Teams Around Job Titles

Elevate is a million dollar a month, networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. Recently, we discussed that the most important thing we do in business is not the service we provide, but securing that next client. We also discussed that using Elevate and NYC is the

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Get Your Nose Bloody

Think about what happens when you touch a hot stove. The speed of the nerve impulse through your neural network can be as fast as one hundred meters per second. It’s almost instantaneous — and there’s a reflexive action even before your brain gets the time it needs to process the threat. There’s no thinking

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Make More Money Hitting a Million Tennis Balls

Elevate is a networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. And I want to talk about being afraid and for those of you that have been a member for the last decade, you might remember that I sucked at networking and was quite afraid of making mistakes

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Gratitude

It’s particularly special to welcome back so many of our Alumni. And Amy, I saw (and liked and commented) on the post on LinkedIn. You’re always so generous with your leadership and service. I know I speak for everyone when I say we’re all grateful for you. Thanks for running this ship. And for always

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Make More Money With Focus Groups

Elevate is a networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. Recently, we discovered there was a lot of gold in the Elevate mine for us. And then we discovered that our 85 members are each directly connected to about 5,000 people and collectively how we are directly

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How are you FEELING?

How are you feeling today? What a difference a couple weeks can make, right? Maybe you’re feeling great. Maybe you’re feeling a little tired. Or nervous about the commercial you’re going to give in front of 90 people a little later in this meeting. Maybe you’re excited about a new prospect you met or referral

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