Too many people send out armadas of canoe emails instead of sending emails the provide value to the recipient. Don’t know what a canoe email is? Canoe emails ASK for things prior to giving anything. I think you know the type. You may even be guilty of sending out a few of these yourself! Canoe… […]
My friend and fellow Gitomer Certified Speaker, Tomas Lydahl, has been doing an internet radio show in Sweden for the past few months and has successfully built an audience using the BlogTalkRadio.com format. Since Tomas also does training and speaking in the USA, he decided to do an English language version and asked me to […]
When faced with opposition to your ideas, you have three options for putting them into action: Get buy-in from the opposition By-pass the opposition Wave bye-bye to the opposition Only you can decide which route to take with any given idea (and any given individual!)
Some days this is how I feel… How about You? Truth is, I don’t think there is a person alive who doesn’t get distracted with one emergency or another. If there is someone who can work through their entire day without another person coming to them with a project on which they need their help, […]
The best sale the advertising industry ever made, was convincing their clients that the only way to get more customers was to shout louder. It’s actually the opposite — Everyone listens with more interest when they hear someone whispering. Try this out the next time you’re in a coffee shop with a friend. Speak at your […]
Leadership Laryngitis is when the fire of your passion so diminishes that you stop sharing your insights with the world — you lose your voice. Not your speaking voice, the voice that made you an individual. The voice that shouted out against the way everyone else was doing things, the voice that proclaimed there was […]
What’s all the flap about thinking outside the box? Get it? Flap. Box. …Box flap! The cliche says “thinking outside the box” is the end-all-be-all of innovative thinking. I completely disagree. It takes a lot more creativity to think INSIDE the box When you tell everyone to think outside the box, you’re basically telling them to […]