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How To Document Success? What Gets Captured – Gets Updated (With A Nudge)

Life Happens This past weekend, I was attempting to clean out my basement. Loaded on shelves were tons of Bankers' Boxes filled with personal and business records dating back to the 1990s. Loaded in there were memories and important things like the Title to my wife's 2003 car and the original documents from when we…

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How To Give Your Sales Team A Little Empathy To Share With Your Customers

The Last 2 Years Have Been HELL! It's hard to believe that two years ago we went from a kind of normal to total chaos in our businesses. We were mostly all chugging along, filled with hope for a new year, and BOOM. The pandemic struck like an earthquake-lightning-tsunami. Companies struggled to set up staff…

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LinkedIn Wants Your New And Old Content (HINT: And So Do Your Prospects & Clients)

Of the many distractions we face in our business lives, I am guessing that social media is not one that you would rate as useful. Believe me, I get it. With over 100 emails a day, phone calls, and app notifications, I would say that over 50% are pure spam. My car warranty is just…

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Relationship Marketing For Success – Connect With Someone And Their Network

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Your network is your net worth?” Well, that is more true today than ever before. Keep in mind, it wasn't too long ago when everything was face-to-face. And since the last few years have happened, we've gotten more into meeting people online, via Zoom or whatever you use, and…

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Exercise Your Business – Get A Running Start To Deliver On Your Goals

I started out yesterday morning, looking for some inspiration. It was the day I was running my second 5K in three years. This race was canceled last year. A few years ago I finished my first race in almost 40 years. I ran it in about 42 minutes, which was kind of disappointing. This year,…

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Vanity Fair, Unfair Vanity, and Vanity Metrics

A while back, I was talking about Cancel Culture on The Bacon Podcast episode 654. What I was talking about was canceling subscriptions. I was going through some of my accounting this weekend and noticed I was paying $10 a month for a newspaper I wasn't reading. Checked with my wife, she wasn't reading it…

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