i knew you’d eventually get it

Masked couple at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Last night. You are looking at 66 years combined Disney Leadership experience.

Bottom line: culture equals habits, habits equal results, therefore culture equals results.

It’s easy to dismiss the previous sentence because it’s ridiculously simple and painfully obvious.

Simple and obvious have an insidious way of being immediately dismissed.

Fatal error in judgement.

The aspects of things most important are lost on us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

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Pricing and such

Disney image and small Pluto toy character
Dream equals vision of the future. The future is a place we are not only trying to make better than today, but much better than today.
Disney tickets pricing chart
Upgrades are more expensive because they include more.
Disney tickets pricing chart
Then there are upgrades for volume, with corresponding volume discounts. The longer you stay, the less you pay.

Pricing and such:

Retail keynotes: WDW & Orlando $20k, USA, Canada, Mexico $25k, cross an Ocean/Sea $30k and up.

Retail half-days: add $5k to each Keynote price.

Retail full-days: $39k up to 20 people. $929pp after 20 and up to 48 ($65k).

Retail Custom: Add $15k to any size/price (48 people maximum). For example, 20 people ($39k) plus $15k for custom delivery is $54k.

Retail Boutique Organizational Vibrancy: $15k/hour.

Depending on your location, a travel allowance fee (usually $1.5k) will compliment the contract. Bundled together are: first-class airfare, ground transportation, and meals. Also, you book and pay for two-night Hotel stay.

Two discounts available: for 100% pre-payment at contract signing. Additional discount for contracted and upfront payment on volume engagements commitment. Note: both discounts can be combined for even greater savings. And of course, if your event is in Orlando, enjoy an automatic 20% discount.

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Exposure trumps revenue in 2020

Dream. Create. Inspire. i am in charge of this at my company as the only full-time employee.

Exposure trumps revenue in 2020.

This revelation just appeared minutes ago while replying to an early business-day-client email.

This year is about marketing and getting the word out.

Why?

The theories about many business strategies and tactics are simply that, theories.

If you have owned your business for at least 11 years, you absolutely understand. If you are in the first year to five years, you haven’t yet discovered the reality of longer-term growth and reputation marketing.

Burn the ships.

.think .differently

Over-focus.

Super excited.

Day one.

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To fame or not to fame

To fame or not to fame.

The speaker agent posted the question on a LinkedIn thread. See photo above.

And i ask the question because occasionally i wrestle with how well known do i want to be known, because becoming well known is marketing 101.

When a business is a one person show it’s really important that the intended and potential audience is clear about who the person is and what they do and how that person can help them and their business.

Try to imagine owning a business where you are the central figure for your product and your service. Then think about world-class branding and marketing, and the dilemma should become obvious.

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Drum roll please?

Negotiate like a Mouse? Or like Bob Iger? Or both?

Drum roll please?

Today is the moment that will determine 2020 vibrancy for two sides.

One side is a 1000+ employee organization. The other side is a one-person army.

In minutes, i’ll be hitting the send button and the price is shared. The email is the fifth in a series of pitches.

Five email pitches, plus conversations, is an example of .think .differently

Non-traditional processes can be overbearing for executive steeped in business tradition.

For the first time ever, i’m prepared to negotiate because there’s room for it in the price.

That said, i’m also prepared to walk away.

This is going to be an extraordinary learning opportunity.

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