We Become What We Think About All Day Long (whether we want to or not)

July 8, 2010

I had a great phone conversation today with an old friend.  Remember that technology – the phone?  Great tool.  Anyway, we were talking about success, goal-setting and things like that.  He knows that I read a lot of books on success, psychology, and personal development and he asked if I could distill in one sentence [...]

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Effective Networking Email Template

June 28, 2010

Effective networking is a lot like matchmaking.  As you are out and about meeting people, always be thinking about who they should know.  By taking a sincere interest in people and learning what kind of work they do, you will be able to refer people and resources to them.  You can always tell when you’re [...]

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Listen Up

June 24, 2010

We never outgrow the need to have our feelings known.  When we meet people we need to remember that everyone likes to feel appreciated.  Whether the person is a white collar, blue collar or no collar worker, we are all so much more similar than we are different.  DNA has proven this.  I’ve heard that [...]

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Always Make It Personal

June 23, 2010

There was a time in business when there was your personal life and there was your business life.  I think that most people would agree that those lives started to blur together a long time ago.  With the advent of Social Networking, the dividing line has completely evaporated for a lot of us.  Personally, I [...]

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Keep It Positive

June 22, 2010

We become like the people we associate with.  This is true whether we’re five or fifty-five.  There are certain kids that we don’t want our kids to hang around with.  The reason for this is because we intuitively know that we become like the people we associate with and we don’t want our kids becoming [...]

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Don’t Be A Twit

June 21, 2010

Everybody and their brother are now on Twitter or will be soon.  Twitter is a fantastic platform for making introductions and finding people that you want to communicate with.  The key wording there is “communicate with”.  Not communicate to, or sell to, or pitch to, or spam to, or scream at.  Once again, Social Media [...]

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How May I Serve You?

June 18, 2010

There are a lot of strategies and techniques that are proposed to break people’s attention and get them to focus on us and our message.  I find that most of these maneuvers are very self-serving and pretty simple to see through.  I also believe that only every waking moment of our lives we are sending [...]

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Don’t Forget About Traditional Networking

June 15, 2010

You would have to be Tom Hanks living on an island with a volleyball named Wilson not to know that Social Media is hotter than a blowtorch right now.  And while that’s all well and good, there are many, many people who seem to have forgotten that traditional networking still exists.  Actually, it’s stronger than [...]

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LinkedIn Reaches 70,000,000 Users

June 9, 2010

LinkedIn recently hit 70M users worldwide.  While less than 40M are in the USA, LinkedIn’s American growth is staggering.  I was using LinkedIn back in 2003 and I was like a voice crying in the wilderness.  I would encourage people to start using the site for networking, job searches, business due diligence and other purposes.  Quite [...]

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Facebook is the World’s Largest High School Reunion

May 20, 2010

With almost 500,000,000 people on Facebook, if it were a country it would be the third largest country in the world behind China and India and right ahead of the USA.  Online communities of this size would have been difficult to imagine even a few years ago.  The world is getting smaller. Back when I [...]

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