Over the past week I have had a less than optimal customer experience with my mobile phone carrier and the saga is ongoing until I get the final bill from them in the next week. However let me tell you the story of my customer experience over the past year with this carrier… I purchased a deal from them because they were the only carrier with a ‘Twin’ deal so my then 17 y.o. son [...]
Guest Post by Celina Conner A huge percentage of the population is involved with social media. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, and many others have all become a significant part of the lives of millions of people around the world. Thus, an increasing number of companies are beginning to focus their marketing efforts on the effective utilization of the power of social media. In this article, we will talk about the influential power of social media [...]
Most of you who know me know that I have been presenting and speaking for years now, I love it! One of the reasons I began presenting workshops and seminars and public speaking was to promote my business. Did you know it’s one of the easiest ways to do it… as long as you can get past the dreaded – “I am terrified of public speaking” I hear so often. Let’s take a look at [...]
What kinds of conversations dominate your Brand presence on social media? Do they feature and focus on your brand, business, niche, products or services?? If not you might be missing out on valuable opportunities to create more business, more awareness about you in business and your brand, more sales, more profits…. I read a post on Forbes entitled “To Increase Revenue Stop Selling” and combined with my own observations and a couple of conversations I [...]
I don’t know about you, but I would love to be an influencer, amend that to inspirational influencer and the thought that something I say or do may change a life inspires me to be the best I can be. Influencers are those people others look to for inspiration and guidance and their followers are their advocates creating ripples in the conversations on and offline that flow outward from the center. The make a splash [...]
After years of promoting my own workshops and seminars, and facilitating and crewing for some very large seminars I can tell you I have learned a lot behind the scenes. Crewing for some of these big name speaker who can have over 2000 fully filled seats at their events, I know just what formula the Superstar speakers use. Today in this post I will identify 9 things that you absolutely must have in place to [...]
The only time you should look back, is to see how far you have come… Anon I don’t know about you but I know just how easy it is to forget to stay focused on how far I have come. Our whole culture is set to focus on what we lack, what we haven’t done, and especially at finding fault with ourselves far too easily. I know there isn’t a person in this world, who [...]
I wonder what you thought about the title of this post? What do I mean marketing happens everywhere? Just that- it does! Every time you sell an idea to your kids like cleaning their room for extra time on the computer or TV, you have marketed to your kids. Every time your partner wants to do or buy something, they sell you on it. History is one long marketing story and I wonder what you [...]