Leadership

Avoiding Email Fail

Posted by on May 22, 2013

Dear Email Recipient, Please find the enclosed message where I will confidently and aggressively articulate my point of view in a way that I would never consider doing if you were...

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Social Media

Facebook: The Great Party Ends at 12

Posted by on Mar 20, 2013

  If you are reading this, I’d say the odds are pretty good that you’ve seen “The Social Network,” the 2010 blockbuster movie that gave its viewers a...

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Technology

From Idea to IPO: “Ideating 101″

Posted by on May 2, 2013

What is really new anymore? If you tell me the latest new thing, I’ll tell you what idea was innovated to create it. Tell me about Vine and I’ll tell you about...

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Guest Blog

The Next Millennial Leader – Guest Post by @jasonrepovs

Posted by on May 20, 2013

I spend a lot of time writing as a millennial in a leadership role. While truly a millennial, my experience is different than many other millennials and my age puts me closer to a...

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Recent Posts

Customer Replacement Therapy

Customer Replacement Therapy

May 24, 2013

Today’s post was originally featured on CMSwire Why do some companies continue to grow at unparalleled rates while other companies seemingly fight year after year just to maintain their revenue rate? In some cases, why did a company grow for many years and then hit what seems like an unbreakable plateau? Some will attempt to say it is one thing or...

Avoiding Email Fail

Avoiding Email Fail

May 22, 2013

Dear Email Recipient, Please find the enclosed message where I will confidently and aggressively articulate my point of view in a way that I would never consider doing if you were sitting across the table from me. Thanks to technology and the global acceptance of email over face to face interaction, or even phone calls for that matter, I am now able to...

The Next Millennial Leader – Guest Post by @jasonrepovs

The Next Millennial Leader – Guest Post by @jasonrepovs

May 20, 2013

I spend a lot of time writing as a millennial in a leadership role. While truly a millennial, my experience is different than many other millennials and my age puts me closer to a “Gen X” than most millennials would be comfortable. When I came across Jason Repovs post below over at Switch and Shift I thought, this is interesting because it paints...

Your Word is Your Brand; It’s Never “Just Business”

Your Word is Your Brand; It’s Never “Just Business”

May 15, 2013

I’ve met more than my fair share of people who say one thing and do another. “It’s fine,” they will tell you. “Everyone else does it, so why can’t I.” followed non-nonchalantly by my favorite cliche; “It is just business.” As if the very premise that it is a business decisions gives you the right to be a...

Sell More You by Selling Less You

Sell More You by Selling Less You

May 13, 2013

What do you sell, Really?   Me, me, me…I, I, I… Yes, we get it. You like to talk about yourself. You and everyone else on the planet. Look, the desire to sell yourself is rooted in good intention. Your desire to hit your quota, to earn trust and respect and to be a good provider to family and loved ones. The problem is the way you are going about...

The Message: Get. To. The. Point.

The Message: Get. To. The. Point.

May 7, 2013

Information Abundance   Ladies and gentleman, can it be deemed official that we have hit the point of information overload? Ok, this isn’t really something new, in fact we have been dealing with it for some time now. There is so much media coming our way at any given moment that it is becoming increasingly difficult to focus. Making even the most...

How Stories Improve Sales and Customer Experience

How Stories Improve Sales and Customer Experience

May 3, 2013

Sales people, at least the ones that I have met, love nothing more than to “Show Up” and “Throw up” all over their customers. While amusing to watch this feature focused product/service dump, businesses are losing money each and every day that they continue to deploy this strategy because of these three simple words… It....

From Idea to IPO: “Ideating 101″

From Idea to IPO: “Ideating 101″

May 2, 2013

What is really new anymore? If you tell me the latest new thing, I’ll tell you what idea was innovated to create it. Tell me about Vine and I’ll tell you about YouTube. Point out the newest Apple Gadget and I’ll show you 10 products they innovated to create it. This doesn’t diminish anything that these companies have done. They are...

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