Let me start off by saying that I am a fan of Google. It is my search engine of choice, I like Gmail and we are looking into other services that they provide to implement in my business. That said,...
This morning I followed a Twitter link (courtesy of @JonathanFields) to a blog entry by Mark McGuinness called "What Daily Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity." As a twice weekly yoga practitioner...
Conversation #1: On the way into to the office today (today being a very snowy Friday), I overheard a guy on his cell phone in the subway station saying, "Take your time on the job. Spend as many...
Over the past couple of years we have produced well over a dozen events on digital marketing (including email,
- "Act from the future." Leadership speaker Pat Murray saw this on the wall of the prominent banking and diplomat Wallenberg family company offices in Sweden. I really like this one.
I recently blogged about leadership speaker Pat Murray and his invaluable insights. In this post I am going to focus more on Pat's advice for getting people on board with your agenda.
I recently heard a great leadership speaker named Pat Murray. Pat was one of the original Vistage chairs (back when it was called TEC and started in Milwaukee), and is now one of their top rated...
In working with some of my sales team on proposals over the past few weeks, we always come to a point where we are wondering if we should put in A or B. In our case, A or B could mean print or online...
I was recently quoted in a New York Post article titled “Tax Cuts: Job No. 1.” The article is about why increased lending is not necessarily what all small businesses need right now.
An article I read in Sunday’s New York Post titled “Fool’s Gold” is about “how retailers deceive you into paying more money for less stuff.” While I don’t think most of us want to deceive, there are...
I received the following email today. It also came with an attachment which I didn’t open. Being a former CPA, I dismissed it right away. If the IRS wants to contact you, they will send you...
I hate to be sold. When I feel a sales pitch coming on (and I can spot it long before it happens), I put up all sorts of defenses. I am short in conversation and start talking about how there is no...
What do you do when you are on a sales call and someone says, "Sounds interesting... How much is it?" Giving your prices at the beginning or even the middle of an initial sales call can be the kiss...
I read a great article in Saturday’s NY Times, Are You a CEO of Something?, with Mark Pincus, founder and chief executive of Zynga, a provider of online social games. Pincus shared some...
