22 April 2013 ~ 0 Comments

KickStart Your Week : Laurie Brown

KickStart Your Week : Laurie Brown

This week Tomas Lydahl and I had a great experience interviewing fellow Gitomer Certified Speaker Laurie Brown. Laurie is the owner of The Difference, a Customer Service and Presentation Skills training company. Laurie has over twenty-five years experience as a speaker and trainer. A key asset that Laurie brings to her work is her range [...]

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15 April 2013 ~ Comments Off

KickStart Your Week : Joey Reiman

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In this week’s featured episode of KickStart Your Week, I was pretty thrilled to be able to speak to a guy who helped form the basis of my “ideas for sale” business model. Joey Reiman’s earlier book, “Thinking For A Living” made a big impact on the way I valued ideas, and the way I [...]

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09 April 2013 ~ Comments Off

Lead-Foot Advertising

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In rush to show results from social media advertising, many companies are using tools that have been newly made available to them by those same social media companies who are in a rush to show revenue increases from advertising sources (I’m talking to you Facebook and Twitter) that ultimately annoy — not engage — the [...]

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25 March 2013 ~ Comments Off

KickStart Your Week : Sam Wilder

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Tomas Lydahl and I sit down with this week’s guest Sam Wilder for lessons on putting a positive attitude into action. Sam began his career as a radio personality. After ten years of radio poverty he entered the world of direct mail sales and worked his way into ownership of direct mail coupon business. Bored with [...]

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20 March 2013 ~ Comments Off

Small Ideas, Big Breakthroughs, and Bacon Cheeseburgers

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Not every idea needs to be HUGE. Some of the best ideas start out small. Taking small steps forward frequently leads to big breakthroughs. Spend a little time each day thinking of one or two micro-improvements you can take to make your job a little better, your products a little more innovative, or to streamline [...]

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