Category Archives: Best Practices

Can You Predict The Future?

12 Little Words That Will Help You Predict the Future written by Cliff Ennico It’s a rough economy out there, but even scarier than the persistent threats of recession; deflation; countries defaulting on their debt; government’s inability to balance the … Continue reading

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Seven Simple Gifts – Not Easy to Give, Splendid to Receive

A beautiful description of 7 timeless things we can do for and with the people in our lives from the always inspiring Denise Bissonette Denise’s Suggested List of Seven Simple, Splendid Gifts  1.       Visibility.  Many people in the world feel … Continue reading

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Where Does Your Marketing Start?

At our firm, we are knee-deep in a couple of really fascinating marketing projects right now and, as usual, every client situation still presents opportunities to learn even though I have been working in marketing for close to 20 years.  … Continue reading

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Seeing The Big Picture Even In Crisis

This piece from Delancey Place is an important reminder in the face of the near-panic we are seeing from American leaders: “In today’s excerpt – in a banking crisis, such as the one the U.S. faced in 2007/2008 and whose … Continue reading

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“If It Is To Be…”

I know we all have times where we are simply overloaded with the demands of work, family and community, but there was something in this piece from SparkPeople that hit home for me.  It’s been hot and I know there … Continue reading

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Tell Your Story Well

Here’s a great, easy to understand piece on storytelling for business by writer Matthew E. May , Founder, Shibumi Creative Works April 21, 2011 Judging by the number of books published in the last six months on the topic of … Continue reading

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I Love Mondays

And I love Wizard of Ads guru Roy H. Williams for his brilliant insights on marketing and human behavior. From Roy, here is this week’s Monday Morning Memo: Relevance, Real-evance, Relate-evence Relevance has always been an important part of effective … Continue reading

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Building Confidence in Your Speaking Ability

Here, from Ragan.com an article on delivering a great presentation in front of an intimidating audience: 12 keys to delivering a killer presentation Don’t neglect a crucial part of your duties to yourself and your audience as a professional speaker … Continue reading

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One, Two, Three…

Three tips for shifting your state of mind   by Carla Reiger 1.   Ask  “What’s going right?”: If you find yourself in a situation in which you are dwelling on everything that is going wrong, try asking yourself, “What’s going right?” … Continue reading

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Forbes: The New Entrepreneurs

Cool! Check out these 16 under-age entrepreneurs as compiled by Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/2011/05/05/grade-school-entrepreneurs.html

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