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”May 8, 201210:24 AM
This Is Being Recorded... By You tagged “New Business”
The art of self-tracking. It was one thing to know where I was going. It was a totally different experience to know how far I had been, how much further I needed to go, what my expected time of arrival... Read more
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April 18, 2012 4:14 PM
Finding The Perfect Pitch tagged “New Business”
Pitching new business is never easy. I was deeply moved by the book, The Art Of The Pitch, by Peter Coughter (you can hear my conversation with Coughter over here: SPOS #296 - The Art Of The Pitch With Peter... Read more
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April 10, 201211:30 AM
The Church And State Of Advertising tagged “New Business”
Are marketers poisoning the well? When I first started publishing music magazines back in the nineties, I kept running into the question of ethics. We were a two-person operation back then and my job was not only handling all of... Read more
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March 27, 2012 1:17 PM
The Start-Up Of You tagged “New Business”
Welcome to Generation Flux. The January 2012 cover story of Fast Company magazine was all about Generation Flux. You've head of Gen X, Gen Y and more, but what is Generation Flux? Our business world has been through some tumultuous... Read more
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February 28, 201210:19 AM
It's Time To Defy Convention tagged “New Business”
How many days have you sat around, stomach twisted, waiting to hear if you had won a new piece of business that you pitched for? It's a terrible feeling and the only thing that can alleviate it is getting the... Read more
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February 16, 2012 3:16 PM
Slimy Sales And Marketing Tactics tagged “New Business”
Are you a salesperson? How does that sentence make you feel? Most people say that they either hate sales or hate salespeople and yet, those same people fail to realize that everything we do in life is sales. When we... Read more
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February 2, 2012 2:29 PM
CTRL ALT DEL - The Business Book tagged “New Business”
CTRL ALT DEL is the title of my second business book. It will be published in Spring 2013. Following is the official press release and some media mention of the pending project... BUSINESS PLUS To Publish CTRL ALT DEL by... Read more
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January 17, 2012 7:19 AM
Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown? tagged “New Business”
It's time to pay attention to Google+. Back in July, I Blogged about Google's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about... Read more
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December 6, 2011 6:51 AM
Is Your Flinch Response Holding You Back? tagged “New Business”
Does your flinch response still protect you? Tony Blauer is a a world-class close-quarters combatives instructor who now spends his days training law enforcement, military and civilians in his personal defense system (Blauer Tactical Systems) based in San Diego. I... Read more
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October 25, 2011 8:50 AM
The Customer Is (Not) Always Right tagged “New Business”
There's an ongoing business axiom that defines customer service: "the customer is always right." Publicly, this may be the proper posture. People like Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos and the author of the best-selling business book, Delivering Happiness) built his... Read more
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October 11, 2011 9:32 AM
On Weirdoes, The Long Tail, Seth Godin And You tagged “New Business”
Here Comes The Weirdoes On Page 16 of the business book, We Are All Weird, by one of the world's foremost authorities on business, marketing and leadership, Seth Godin (best-selling author of Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip and countless others),... Read more
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September 27, 2011 8:29 AM
The New Business Traveler tagged “New Business”
While it's nice to think that Skype, WebEx or Facetime removes the need for business travel, nothing could be further from the truth. Granted, if all you're having is a status meeting, those can easily be replaced by technology, but... Read more
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September 13, 2011 6:33 AM
Kickstart Your Own Economy tagged “New Business”
Can you test the market for a product without ever producing it? CW&T is a self-described, "teeny design studio in Brooklyn" that is basically a two-person operation - designers Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. I have a certain kinship with... Read more
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August 16, 2011 8:19 AM
The Business Of Motivation tagged “New Business”
Motivation is a strange beast. In April 2007, I was asked to be a speaker in a full-day conference that was billed as a day of "motivation and leadership." The event featured speakers like former President of the United States... Read more
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August 2, 2011 2:21 PM
Your Meetings Suck tagged “New Business”
Meetings suck. At around 2:00 pm on any given weekday, the same sinking feeling comes over me at the office and all I can think to myself is: "wow, I have to get out of here if I'm ever going... Read more
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July 19, 2011 9:25 AM
Anything You Want tagged “New Business”
What If You Can Have It All? This past week, Montreal hosted the first-ever International Startup Festival (from July 13th - 15th, 2011). It was attended by close to one thousand participants from all over the world - all of... Read more
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July 5, 201110:09 AM
Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook tagged “New Business”
It's hard to imagine that there is a Facebook killer somewhere around the next tech innovation, but there probably is. Granted, in the end, it won't look much like a "killer" but probably closer to something new, shiny and different... Read more
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June 7, 201111:10 AM
5 Ways To Survive Your Inbox tagged “New Business”
I love email. I hate email. Most people probably have a similar love/hate relationship with email as they grapple daily with their inbox. In fact, I hate email... I just hate not getting email more. And, that's the dilemma that... Read more
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May 10, 2011 6:43 AM
The New Twitter Effect tagged “New Business”
Twitter is mainstream. It was another week of Twitter getting mainstream media accolades as news of Osama Bin Laden taking one in the head from the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six unit lit the Social Media channel afire with... Read more
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November 23, 2010 9:10 PM
The New Rules Of Email tagged “New Business”
It's rare that you come across an individual who feels like they simply don't get enough email. In fact, the reaction most people give you when you even discuss the topic of email evokes words and emotions like, "overwhelmed" and... Read more
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