MARK IN THE MEDIA
Mark lives and breathes productivity. He loves sharing strategies and below are some of the publications, podcast and presentations he has given to support, CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Sales Professionals be more productive and fulfilled.
PUBLICATIONS

Mark regularly talks, teaches and shares information so entrepreneurs accomplish more, in less time, stress-free.

March 24, 2021

What will the workplace look like post-COVID?

How much excess capacity exists in current commercial buildings? Most commercial buildings sit vacant for 12 hours out of the working day until the next day begins and 24 hours a day on weekends. If we are collectively reinventing what the new world looks like, we don’t have to use old models that no longer serve the greater good. The co-working model has been gaining ground with entrepreneurs for years. That same entrepreneurial thinking can guide the way for new spaces to optimize the space they need. As a result, we can streamline and maximize the buildings that exist.

Mar 5, 2021

How to Come Up with a Business Name – 10 Naming a Business Stories

Years ago, a mentor did an exercise with me where he asked me: “How do you make your clients heroic?” We discussed the many ways that I was seeking to fulfill that mission. He asked me to pull out a crisp sheet of paper and draw a heart on the right side of the paper. After hours of discussion, the three words that rang true for that mission: Enjoy Life Daily. They fit neatly inside the heart on the right side of the page. (Fun fact: Years later, I still have the sheet of paper.)

That heart and those words are symbolic of the heart I choose to support my entrepreneurial clients within their businesses. It’s a great daily reminder I have to share with entrepreneurs (and myself).

Apr 13, 2021

10 Productivity Tips For Digital Marketers To Save Time

Strategy work (for marketing, branding, selling, product development, etc.) takes deep concentration. There is significant research that states it typically takes 20-30 minutes to recover from each distraction. Each ding or ring on your phone causes you to lose concentration. Switching your brain, from strategy work to a sales call, to a financial question, back to strategy requires acclimation time. Too often, I hear entrepreneurs end their day saying “I know I worked all day and yet I’m not quite sure what I did.” Create boundaries to prioritize your day and consistently point the business needle towards growth goals. 

Jan 7, 2021

10 Small Business Logos and The Stories Behind Them

All the brand attributes are clearly demonstrated, beginning with the organization of the words “Enjoy Life Daily” combined with the passionate energy represented by the backdrop of my signature “Mark Jamnik” I invite my clients to Enjoy Life daily, without having to wait and accomplish all the goals in your business and miss the journey to get there. 

Dec 10, 2020

How To Set Good Marketing Goals: 8 Goal Setting Tips

All the brand attributes are clearly demonstrated, beginning with the organization of the words “Enjoy Life Daily” combined with the passionate energy represented by the backdrop of my signature “Mark Jamnik” I invite my clients to Enjoy Life daily, without having to wait and accomplish all the goals in your business and miss the journey to get there. 

Apr 14, 2021

15 Tasks To Delegate To Improve Productivity

Spending hours making a design look right, from the fonts to the colors and images, can take unnecessary time from your business. The key to improving productivity is to invest the time to document, before delegating. Interestingly, all design starts with descriptions. Documenting the main attributes of your brand will pay “delegation dividends” in the future when you easily delegate to a designer. They will love you for it and you will get items that represent your brand. Many business owners give no clear documentation or direction when delegating. This is where many owners struggle. If you haven’t clarified and documented it yourself, the designer will have a difficult time with what it’s supposed to look like. After documenting my brand, I was able to delegate to a designer and she stepped into her design gifts. She and I have been working wonderfully together for over 4 years. 

Jul 19, 2021

9 Upsell Tips To Convert Free Trial Users

Truly Listen and Understand. Do deep research by listening and understanding what your ideal customer needs. Strategically map out the entire buyer’s experience so your upsell process builds on the benefits of the free trial. By first connecting and appreciating your ideal customer’s needs, the wrong customers say “no” and your ideal customers say “yes.” By precisely mapping out the upsell experience your business operates much more efficiently because the “wrong” customers aren’t challenging and stressing your company systems. As a result, you and your team can focus on refining the upsell process to drive even more ideal customers. Doing the strategic work up front by listening, understanding and mapping creates more upsells.

Feb 23, 2021

6 Tips To Stay Agile While Completely Remote

Create “rules for tools.” With so many remote tools ranging from Teamwork to Dropbox to Google Suite; identifying how you and your team will utilize them is hypercritical in today’s remote environment. Setting a specific naming structure will help manage and ensure items are consistently shared to eliminate confusion and/or redundancy.

Dec 24, 2020

How To Name Your Business: 12 Business Naming Tips

How Do You Make Your Clients Heroic? Get everything you say about your company “out of your head” by taking the time to write your answers on paper (or a whiteboard) before it eventually ends up in a master company document.

Dec 10, 2020

How To Write a Value Proposition: 11 Examples + Tips

Go back to your roots. After a lengthy discussion, with a friend about my company. I was reminded of a blog I started in 2008… the blog page was called “Enjoy Life Daily.” It aligned me to my deeper why, before I even considered a business. 

October 22, 2020
10 Practical Tools That Improve Business Practices
Mindomo is a mind mapping tool that allows me to get a visual on the many ideas I have for my business, in one place.
August 20, 2020
10 Ways To Leverage a Conscious Culture to Showcase a Stakeholder-Centric Model
The culture in my company is to address the cause, not the symptom.
August 19, 2020
11 Tips To Amplify Your Company’s Higher Purpose During Times of Crisis
I live and breathe my higher purpose through the concepts I teach called the Home Story and 3 Routes Home. Think of it as a messaging methodology that is simplified to as little as 6 words.
July 23, 2020
How to make your stakeholders feel seen and heard in 2020
Re-evaluate certain stakeholder relationships for the ideal fit. After evaluation, if it was no longer an ideal fit, amicably end the relationship.
July 22, 2020
11 Ways to Demonstrate a Stakeholder-Centric Higher Purpose During the New Normal
I adjusted my pricing structure and lowered prices by as much as 50%. I am offering resources to inspire, including a free mastermind group platform and structure, to those that qualify.
June 10, 2020
Adjusting Your Business to Make 2020 a Win-Win-Win
Every Friday, I host “our community call.” The community sits around the virtual table to talk with others about the challenges they are facing and receive practical solutions.

February 11, 2021

14 Ways to Address Employee Mental Health Issues During COVID-19

Share Deeper Emotional Issues. Invite them to develop a strong support system and communicate their true feelings. I regularly participate in a group where we share deeper emotional issues. In 2020, I communicated the feeling of “loneliness” I experienced during the pandemic. I expressed and dealt with it, and was able to eventually thrive. An effective support team is there for the ups and downs of life, we all experience.

October 5, 2020
11 digital marketing communication tips to increase conversions
Actively Listen to Your Prospect’s Needs. The best marketing communication comes from listening to exactly what your clients have said, in their own language.
May 10, 2021

How do I get started using Terkel?

Be Consistent. Decide on 1–2 questions a week that make sense for your specialty, and don’t overwhelm yourself by trying to answer too many questions. After deciding on the questions, compile concepts in a document to solidify your ideas. Invest time to write out, revise your message to put your “best grammatical foot forward.” I write, rewrite, and edit.

I post it on Terkel and read through my answer one more time to fine-tune before clicking submit. I carve out time (sometimes as much as 45 minutes per question) and that investment has yielded over 30 articles published in under a year. I highly recommend investing the time in Terkel, which can expose you to different audiences highlighting your expertise. It’s worth it. Simply start and be consistent.

April 6, 2021

14 Risks That Are Worth Taking

After growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, I left on January 20, 2002, to venture out west. I wanted to challenge my comfort zone and take on a new adventure. I loved my family and friends and left the known for the unknown. Moving from the East coast to the West coast mentally, I found it took me about 6 months to hit my stride at business, with friends and the new experiences in my new hometown. As a car guy, I enjoyed seeing all the modified cars and enjoyed waking up to the sun, virtually every day; a big change from the 300 days of clouds I was used to. The easy path, or the more challenging path…it’s our choice. While the easy path is much more comfortable, the challenging path is filled with adventure and amazing insights about ourselves.

February 9, 2021

7 Ways to Support Small Businesses

One small business I support is Infusion Coffee & Tea. Prior to COVID, on the first Friday of each month, I led the Conscious Capitalism – Arizona Chapter “Coffee Chats” in Tempe. When the pandemic hit, and we halted the chat, I spent the majority of 2020 inside of my home. When things started opening again, I returned to Infusion Coffee. 

January 26, 2021

8 Things Small Business Owners Love About Their Own Companies

My business is the culmination of the beautiful dance of my strengths combined with my struggles I have overcome. I share lessons learned, imperfections along with strategies that have guided me along the way, so clients accomplish more in less time. 

January 19, 2021

9 Professional New Year’s Resolutions From Small Businesses

I reconnected back to a love that I had for the arts when I was a child. I began painting which offered me a wonderfully creative outlet, that is also guiding me on my daily structured business side. I found a wonderful way to share my love for abstract art, combined with story sharing and organization.

January 5, 2021

The 11 Best Things About Quarantine That Are Totally Unexpected

I plan to be spontaneous…I know, I know it’s an oxymoron. The real goal is to explore more. By planning out my days and weeks, I will ‘plan’ more opportunities for exploration aka ‘spontaneity.’ This resolution aligns with the freedom I sought as an entrepreneur. With more exploration, I can grow outside much of the “comfort zone” of my home that I have lived in for much of 2020.

June 9, 2021

The 9 Hardest Things About Being a First-Time CEO

At the start of the company, so many items require clarification from the vision, the messaging, the product, pricing, and delivery. It can feel like every company decision is dependent on each other and ultimately the CEO. To prioritize, clarify your ideal customer persona(s), define your sales messaging, and package your product. By focusing on those business priorities, you will invest the right time to drive and grow your business.

June 11, 2021

11 Best Business Advice For First Time Entrepreneurs

Create Daily Business Intentions. Too often, entrepreneurs try to do ‘everything’ in their business each day. ‘Everything’ can mean sales, marketing, product development, finance, operations…the list can go on and on. Many entrepreneurs run themselves from one meeting to the next to the next. At the end of a long day, sometimes it feels like they didn’t accomplish anything that day. Entrepreneurs can see clear mile marketers towards their goals by intentionally focusing on specific business aspects on specific days. I call it “Category Days.” As a result, they feel more accomplished and have a deeper sense of having completed something each day.

January 7, 2021

10 Time Saving Tips For Small Business Owners

Silence your phone and put it in another room so you aren’t tempted to check it. Your brain is being hi-jacked with every beep, chirp, or buzz of your phone. Yes, your attention and awareness are being stolen from the present moment each time you check for the next message. Deep work requires attention and focus. Blocking off time helps you discover deeper issues to “surface-level problems.” This results in developing long term sustainable solutions.

November 19, 2020

8 Examples of Benefit Corporations Doing Good for the Commons

Ray Delmuro started Refresh in 2008 with a mission to rescue wine bottles and turn them into drinking glasses. I have watched him over the years grow from his first industrial space to introduce his 10 million bottle rescue mission; all while creating partnerships with well known brands with style, function and purpose.

May 3, 2021

10 Things Small Businesses Should Outsource To Save Time & Money
Identify Redundant, Low Value Tasks. A valuable exercise is to identify where you are spending your time each day/week. If you work several hours on low value tasks on a daily (or weekly basis), ask yourself “is this the highest use of my time?” If not, take the time to document what you do, batch the tasks and delegate them to your team. To help ‘sell yourself’ on outsourcing, clarify how much your time is worth (e.g. $100/hr, 250/hr, $500/hr, …more?) When you clarify your “time value” and you see what you are paying yourself to do low value tasks, you’ll quickly outsource. As a result, you’ll find your team doing it faster AND cheaper than you. This will free you to invest more in areas that ARE the highest use of your time.

May 20, 2021

7 Ways For Small Businesses To Take Advantage of Current Market Opportunities
Listen to Your Clients’ Needs. When you truly connect and understand what your ideal client needs, you can offer existing products or create new products that will profoundly benefit them. The work for selling all happens in the listening. When you listen to what they need and reflect it back to them, your company becomes the oasis that will quench their thirst for the solution they are seeking. When you communicate back what you heard, your company will stand out amongst a sea of sameness in the marketplace. Clients will end up selling themselves because you have reflected back what they communicated and are delivering exactly what they need.

April 12, 2021

12 Stress Management tips for Business owners
My day begins a little after 5:00 am with mindset routines to prepare myself for what may come up throughout the day. I have practiced meditation, yoga, and journaling for over 10 years. Meditation helps to clear my mind and practice presence. I strive to carry that presence in each interaction throughout my day. I discovered yoga in 2003 and it’s my go-to exercise because yoga has no scoreboard; it’s simply me and my mat. Lastly, I began journaling in 2008 to capture gratitude, clarify challenges and celebrate wins. These mindset routines prepare me for the rest of the day, where I track and “keep score” for things pertinent to my business.

August 17, 2020

Leadership Titles: 9 Things CEO Stands For
As a Simplifier A phrase I share with entrepreneurs often is, “Complexity confuses and simplicity scales.”

August 17, 2020

How To Be a Good Leader: 10 Ways To Lead in Uncertainty
During these uncertain times, leaders have to identify areas of growth and be willing to do inner work so they lead authentically.
September 2, 2020
Guest Post: How To Be a Good Leader: 10 Ways To Lead in Uncertainty by Mark Jamnik
We are currently living in the physical manifestation of the inauthentic ‘masks’ that many leaders were wearing over the years. When the pandemic is over and everyone takes off their physical masks, leaders that have done the inner work will take off their physical mask and no longer will be wearing an inauthentic mask.
September 2, 2020
Smart books for toddlers
I always loved cars and art and the story included both. Recently I found it online and bought a copy. I see an important tie in with interests as a child and things we do as an adult.
March 7, 2021
How To Build More Trust With Employees
Like any relationship, by regularly paying compliments and gratitude for the other person, you invest in trust over time. By consistently recognizing their small and large contributions to the company mission, they will feel more fulfilled and connect to the company cause. Your mission is accomplished by the team when everyone works together and applies their skills and abilities. As gratitude is expressed as part of the culture, your team will step up when that occasional last-minute project occurs because they know the extra effort is appreciated.
November 1, 2020
11 Ways to Deal With Constant Changes in Technology
Mark advices to focus on the fundamentals of why you want to use the new technology. There will always be a new technology to use; what doesn’t change is the information you will add to the technology.
August 30, 2020
Thought-leaders Share Which Entrepreneurs They Consider Successful
Tony Robbins created a brand that has impacted many in the duration of his 40+ years in personal development.
December 16, 2020

10 Ways To Use Business To Give Back To Your Local Community

Gift your knowledge. Years ago, I heard the phrase “proximity is power” by Tony Robbins. Five years ago, I partnered up with three other successful entrepreneurs and we started a Mastermind group called Focus Four.
November 19, 2020

10 Ways To Better Balance Work Life and Personal Life

Create, what I call “Category Days”, to concentrate your business efforts on specific days (e.g. Marketing Mondays, Wrap-up Wednesday, Finance Friday, etc.).
October 28, 2020
8 Business Ideas For Boomers With Flexible Schedules
So many boomers have had successful careers/businesses and offer incredible wisdom.

March 31, 2021

9 types of email marketing campaigns to consider sending

Years ago, after listening to many prospects inside of a specific industry, I heard a very consistent phrase, month after month. It didn’t matter if I was talking to someone in Seattle, or Pennsylvania, or New Mexico… this consistent phrase was said the same way across the various roles, inside this specific industry. An email campaign began with that consistent phrase reframed as a question in the subject line. As a result, the long tail sales cycle time went from 9 months to a little over 2 months.

September 24, 2020
How often should you send marketing emails? 9 experts share insights
Ensure You Fully Understand Your Prospects’ Questions. Having a deep understanding of your prospect will guide you on how often and what to send them.
October 26, 2020
Why is making connections important? 10 experts share insights
Co-Made, Not Self-Made. Connections are the key to success. Joseph Campbell shared the concept of “the hero’s journey.”
PODCASTS

March 4, 2020

Introducing Cultivating Collaboration on Avontage

In Episode 1 of Cultivating Collaboration on Avontage podcast, Sean Sarram, the host and Founder of Avontage along with co-host Mark Jamnik of Enjoy Life Daily connect and share the experiences that are taking place on Avontage platform. 

November 3, 2020

Creating Buzz PR Mark Jamnik with Enjoy Life Daily
Mark discusses his focus on coaching and how he fuels his coaching through his expression of art.

March 29, 2020

Secret Sauce Society Member Spotlight with Mark Jamnik
Mark discusses his focus on coaching and how he fuels his coaching through his expression of art.

October 22, 2018

Practice Presence
Mark discusses the importance of the example of “Practicing presence” so you can enjoy more of what life has to offer.

2016

Be Joy

Mark talks about the importance of being that which you wish to see more of in the world. Mark chooses to “Be Joy.”

2016

World Domination Summit

World Domination Summit (WDS) is a “gathering of creative, interesting people from all over the world.

October 2014

Live a 4 hour work week and Enjoy Life Daily
On this podcast, Mark will show you how you can create what he calls a dashboard, allowing you to live a 4 hour work week so you can enjoy life daily.

TIME TALKS

October 2020

Leverage your time
Discover the keys to Find, Document and Track your day to be more productive.

May 2020

How to maximize productivity & fulfillment
Discover the power of setting up Category days by implementing the Dashboard.

Discover How to Create Time

What took you months, can take you weeks.
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