“Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn’t allow you to achieve greatness and results. It’s the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.”

It can be easy to become ‘friends’ or ‘connected’ with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.

When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources.

Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.

Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you completely understand and empathize with your customer and their life.

Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.

Effective networking isn’t a result of luck – it requires hard work and persistence.

Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.

The more confident you are, the less doubt you will have, and the more likely your success will be.

I believe passion is the sword of love that pierces through the wall of fears that hold us back.

Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing.

One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.

The more content you share, the more opportunity people have to see it and engage with it.

I have learned that champions aren’t just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits.

It’s almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.

The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life.

Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don’t retaliate publicly.

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up.

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.

I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.