This is an incredible time of year. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is filled with anticipation, memories, and reflection. If you’re in the Midwest like we are, you have a love-hate relationship with the snow. It’s a beautiful covering of the ground that you still have to go out and shovel, like we…
DetailsDo you think time networking or using Social Networking is worth it? I am going to assume that totally depends on your results!!! If you want to use me as an example… over the last two months… sales have been up 50% over the rest of the year? Why? Because I have been banging the…
DetailsHow many of you remember “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” where Robin Leach spoke of “Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams”? How about Carleton Sheets Infomercials on “Making Millions in Real Estate”? It’s unfortunate that people so take to the “Get Rich Quick” ideas but it’s an alluring option to unemployment, downsizing, re-inventing, whatever you want…
DetailsI don’t know about you… but I am addicted to connections. I came home yesterday from my 2nd networking group of the day (connections #1), only to find our cable was out (connections #2a), rendering our house in panic with no tv, phone lines or internet! So I jump on my cell phone to look…
DetailsThere’s an old joke “Stand back… I am a weapon… I know Karate, Kung Fu… and three other kool words that begin with K”. Well this weeks blog is about those other three words. KUNUNDRUM… A week or so ago, I was teaching a class at the Forest Park Library on using Facebook, Twitter and…
DetailsYou’ve probably heard the joke that goes… A man goes to heaven and says to God… “God, I had a wonderful life but how come you never let me win the Lottery?”. God says “How come you never bought a ticket?”. The business equivalent of that is “How can I get more business?”. To which…
DetailsDid you ever notice that you always find things in last place you look? Or as the song goes, “Oh it only seems to go… that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”? It’s been about an hour since our Comcast service inexplicably shut down. The only explanation there is an outage in…
DetailsI knew I was in trouble when… One of the participants of our speech said “I only need a cell phone to do two things… Let me answer calls and tell me the time.”. That’s when you know that trying to teach a crowd of people about using Social Networking to promote their business is…
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