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Prospecting In New Markets: Fish Where The (Fat) Fish Are

Prospecting In New Markets: Fish Where The (Fat) Fish Are

  Full disclosure...   My idea for this post came while reading Chris Brogan's post of yesterday, Fishing Off The Back...

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Leaders & Ladders – One Size Does Not Fit All

Leaders & Ladders – One Size Does Not Fit All

  I learned a ton about leadership...   ... while heading up the 1999 Pan American Games Marketing Project in Canada.  I had...

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Team Selling & Body Language – Three Best Practices

  Style is as important as substance when selling in teams. I'm out there selling all the time, and sometimes I'm out there buying,...

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Sales & Storytelling – Guest Speaker, Utrecht

Sales & Storytelling – Guest Speaker, Utrecht

It's just gone live! The website has been launched for the Toastmasters Division J Spring Conference, 9th April, in Utrecht, outside of...

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Used Car Salesman – Not For The Faint-Hearted

So now for a bit of humor, but beware! A pinch of profanity with a heeping tablespoon of anger for his boss.  As the old saying goes,...

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Successful Entrepreneurs Think Beyond Closing Deals

Successful Entrepreneurs Think Beyond Closing Deals

"If you want to build a long-term successful enterprise, you don't close a sale, you open a relationship." - Patricia Fripp   I've...

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Charlie Sheen & Two Lessons For Entrepreneurs

"What happened to Charlie Sheen?"      That's the buzz in the U.S. media this week, after the star of...

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Jimi Hendrix On Listening

Jimi Hendrix On Listening

    "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970.     There was always something mystical...

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A Leader With Cojones!

A Leader With Cojones!

I've got a very special place in my heart for King Juan Carlos of Spain. That's where leaders touch us the most, in the heart. Sometimes they...

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Twitter Forces You To Think Like An Editor

Twitter Forces You To Think Like An Editor

I've never, ever regretted starting my career in journalism. The Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse drilled some solid lessons...

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