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Convert Prospects To Clients With Branding Ease

“You are a breath of fresh air” is the exclamation II always heard from prospects and clients alike while in the field of professional sales. This actually became my brand.

The strategy of being “fresh air” translates beautifully into interviewing and entrepreneurship to put you into the top candidate position. If you are ever frustrated …

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How Your Personal Brand Changes Over Time

Your personal brand isn’t meant to be stagnant. After all, throughout your career, you’ll certainly grow and change as an individual. So will your business.

What influences these changes in your personal brand over time?

Your experience New business ventures Switching career paths Interests New skills Your mentors or close colleagues

Just because you’ve built …

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Visibly Mobile

At coffeehouse in San Francisco with the whirring of a coffee grinder in the background, James Alexander- Founder of Vizibility, the company that helps you to take control and manage what people find about you on Google, spoke with me and generously shared some updates with his company.  They’ve just launched their mobile friendly search …

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A Cup Of Coffee To Unexpected Influencers

Dr. Robert Cialdini has written many best-sellers, including Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Yes!: 50 Scientifically proven Ways to Be Persuasive, and Influence: Science and Practice. His purpose is to conduct and translate proven scientific research into ethical business applications.

On his Influence at Work website, some interesting new findings on the level of an …

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Motivation Is Required To Succeed

Recently, I had an eyebrow-raising call. My Prospect said outright that although she knows her services are exactly what her clientele needs she cannot convert them to clients. After a lengthy discussion, I offered a number of suggestions of how to improve the process.

Categories of ambition

The content of my program was discussed to …

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Branding Lessons From The Burson, Facebook And Google Scandal

Even big brands misstep and make mistakes. Unfortunately, the bigger your brand is, the more public backlash you subject it to.

The public relations nightmare

Recently, a story broke that Facebook hired a top PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, to pitch anti-Google stories to media outlets. The pitch claimed that Google was invading users’ privacy with a …

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Personally Dominate Mobile Marketing

Mobile is an area of fascination for many advertisers and marketers, partially because it is confounding. Ideally, mobile commerce is more efficient than search because its targeted consumers aren’t those sitting on couches and thinking about purchasing something. Instead, the campaigns are focused on consumers who are out in the real world and are very …

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Stop Applying And Start Competing

Are you still APPLYING for a job instead of COMPETING for one? In today’s hypercompetitive, brutal job market, where there are still many more job seekers than there are jobs, you had better be doing the latter or you’re going to end up missing the boat entirely! Still, many job seekers apparently either don’t want …

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Giver’s Gain: Leverage Your Network Without Abusing It

Steve Boyle runs a cool nonprofit called No Excuses, No Regrets Basketball (the site is being redesigned right now, so follow him at @SteveBoylenenr if you want more information). The organization is dedicated to motivating players to achieve academic success and to be a better person on and off the court (I’m paraphrasing here).

Needless …