Turn Roadblocks into Sales
Does frustration set in when ignored or told “No”?
I find being ignored the most frustrating of the two because it puts communication at a standstill, while being told “No” is usually an easy fix.
When you are awaiting for a response from someone but it does not come, try a variety of methods for …
Personal Branding Weekly – Sunday, March 31st
Joyful greetings to you! No matter what holiday you are celebrating, we are grateful and thankful for your readership and hope that you’re enjoying a day focused on family and fun.
This week – here are the great posts that might have slipped by you with the shortened work week, school week or even spring …
5 Things You Control In How Google Brands You
Amazingly, all of what Google publishes and how it brands is about how WE choose to serve, act and react. Transparency today gives us no-where to hide.
If you do it, say it or post it, you will be found and outed. Just Google people or companies and you will see many examples of this. …
Successful Networkers Respect Boundaries: Etiquette and Tact Pay Off!
There is a delicate balance between self-promoting and promoting with tact and appropriateness. If you pay close attention to the signals you’re receiving from peers and colleagues you can learn when someone truly wants advice or information about your product/service and when they’re not really interested. Ask yourself the question; Is it worth investing energy …
Do or Don’t, Actions Matter to Personal Branding Success
What we do matters to our personal brand–just as much as what we don’t.
I was speaking to a client yesterday and bringing him through my on-boarding process. The job wasn’t a big one–it was quite in fact a tiny job. Having been wrapped up in a big job and a few personal matters, I …
Speaking Techniques That Sell
How attentive are others to what you have to say?
As I observed the speaker deliver his message, it appeared he had taken lessons. Compared to previous talks, the latest delivery flowed better and included specific points for the audience to remember. However, the entire speech was over-acted; the arm motions appeared exaggerated, and the …
How to Develop Thought Leadership
Thought leadership in an industry is important to generate inbound leads and have clients come to you. Sales is thought of traditionally as a result of cold-calling or cold-emailing — purely from hard work in developing relationships and pushing for the sale. But the smart marketer or salesperson understands that sales conversions greatly increase when …
Personal Branding Weekly and Let Your Brand Flag Fly
This week I met an entrepreneur/car salesman. He was beginning his business and working at a dealership while building his business. Of course, I gravitated towards his story and found it hard to focus on the actual purchasing discussions wanting to spend more time on discussing his entrepreneurial endeavors. Then came the …
Personal Branding Weekly and the Importance of Fit
The title from Jeff Shuey’s post this week, Don’t Get Mad….Get Productive, served as our mantra this week. From another announcement by Best Buy of bringing employees from home back to the office to the supersized cover photo changes on Google+ and Facebook’s newsfeed change announcements, there was quick a bit of …
The Value of Face Time for Your Personal Brand
Even as an established author who has held book signings before, I have to admit that I was nervous when I set out for Cherry Hill, NJ, this past Saturday. It was my first signing for my latest book, When Talent Isn’t Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined, but I wasn’t sure why I …