Too many thought leaders, speakers, consultants, experts, coaches, authors, and entrepreneurial business owners say "David, I've got a million ideas - I'm sooo creative."

Sad truth is these folks are also the ones struggling to grow their business and establish any traction in their revenue generating activities.

Why?

Because they have a million ideas. You can't ACT on a million ideas and only action creates results!

New game plan - You need 100 ideas.

Yep, that's it. 100 rock solid, valuable, actionable, spreadable, talkable, magnetize-able ideas.

100 ideas will give you the foundation for:

• 100 blog entries
• 10 speeches, keynotes, seminars or presentations
• 3-4 books
• 100 2-minute videos
• 2-3 solid long-term development programs, coaching packages, service offerings lasting between 10-52 weeks
• 30 webinars or teleseminars
• 100 team training topics for your employees, salespeople, franchisees, or dealers
• 5-10 white papers, implementation guides, or downloadable toolkits
• 10 different in-person seminars for your clients, customers, prospects, and partners

True thought leaders don't have a wildly different message each time you hear from them. They always present variations on a theme built on a solid foundation.

What's their foundation? Their 100 ideas!

What are YOUR 100 ideas?

How can you dial DOWN the 1,000,000 in your head - and dial UP the 5-10 you probably talk about right now - to create a lasting "Thought Leadership Platform" that you can become KNOWN for?

My 100 are always evolving (subtly) but they never go away and themes and patterns recur consistently.

As a small business marketing speaker who works with professional speakers, consultants, and professional services firms, here are a handful of mine that might spark some ideas for YOU:

• Experts win on value, generalists die on price
• Effective marketing should be easy, effortless, and enjoyable
• 4 steps to marketing are Define - Organize - Implement - Track (D-O-I-T!)
• Only action creates results (headline on my home page - Marketing Speaker David Newman)
• Passion is not enough
• Plan for failure - think through failure, think ahead of failure, think around failure
• Forget about plan B - you also need plans C, D, E, F, and G!
• Smart marketers Move in, Move ahead, Move aside, and Move alone
• Your marketing materials need to be "un-chuckable"
• Who do you want to be a rock star to?
• Don't make buyers feel they're the first person to trust you

You get the point... these and about 89 more are the sum total of what I get paid to do via keynotes, seminars, strategic work sessions, coaching programs, corporate meetings, association meetings, franchise conferences, 1-on-1 mentoring, webinars, products, videos, audios, podcasts, white papers, special reports, blog entries... all that I do comes from my 100 ideas.

You can't make money if you have a million ideas.

You can - and you will - make money from your 100 ideas.

So get going... not someday, but right now!