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I’m a late-coming football fan. Truthfully, I’m a bigger fan of the football party than the football game, but that seems to work out for everyone involved. After all, someone needs to fetch the beer and snacks – and I’m more than happy to be that someone. This year, because
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Category Archives: Entrepreneur Excellence
5 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Business Networking Groups
Are you a member of BNI? Your local Chamber of Commerce? An industry association? If you are, you’ll quickly realize that all business networking groups are not created equal. Our local Middleton Chamber of Commerce events are outstanding, filled with fun, interesting people. But when I lived in California, I
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Content, Content Everywhere
As someone who strongly believes in SYSTEMS, I am always looking to perfect my own. I love my gadgets and software, but sometimes I have to remind myself that simpler is better. When I look at my highly organized friends, they use simple things like - notepad, their
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Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2011. HAPPY NEW YEAR!Quick Favor: I have a friend looking to survey California adults who love to travel. It’s not a solicitation of any kind, just research for a project she’s working on. If you can spare 5-10 minutes, please fill out this
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Gaining an Edge Over the Holidays
A friend of mine is a professional athlete. A couple of weeks ago over dinner, we having a discussion about discipline. (I'm on a new workout kick and was looking for advice.) My question was something like, "How do you get yourself out of bed at 5:00 a.m. when
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What are you grateful for?
Recently, because I’m trying to deeply integrate all I learned at Blair Singer’s Sales and Leadership Workshop, I decided to reinvigorate my gratitude practice.
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B2B Holiday Marketing
B2B marketers have an opportunity to use up the last of their customers' 2010 budget -- and to get commitments for projects beginning January 1st. It's also time to thank the customers who kept you in business throughout 2010.
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I’m a travelling fool…and selling like crazy.
I have been a travelling fool lately. I’ve been speaking about marketing all over the country. In the last month, I’ve been in Florida, Fargo and California. Next week I teach social media marketing at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Division of Continuing Studies. But today, I’m in Arizona for
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Are you committed to learning?
Recently, I went outside of my marketing comfort zone, and spent a weekend in Phoenix learning about sales and leadership from Blair Singer.
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Goodbye 2009. Hello 2010!
What did you do that WORKED this year? What went right? Is there a way that you can continue to capitalize on what you did? By focusing on the positive and reinforcing your ability to create what you want, you just might be inspired with the
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