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How To Bounce Your Business Back From A PR Disaster (Tiger Woods Style)

Who will ever forget the Thanksgiving of 2009? We awoke on Friday morning from our turkey induced slumber to find out that Tiger Woods’ wife beat him up overnight. Tiger...

How to Keep Your Employees Happy (When More Money Isn’t An Option)

In case you’ve been living under a rock — in Antarctica — the economy is still sputtering back to health. The “new” economy is uncomfortable (still) to everyone, including your...

Lessons from 8 of the Greatest Marketers of All Time

The greatest marketers of all time bring us different lessons, approaches and philosophies but they all achieve the same results — conversions and loyalty. Create your own marketing with one,...

Build The Sidewalks After The Paths Are Discovered

This is a picture (thanks to Google Maps) of the Virginia Tech drillfield, the center of campus. All the students living in dorms cross the drillfield every day to get...

The Teacher Is The Best Student

It is one of my favorite personal ah-ha moments: My friend, JB Blanchard, and I were hastily walking to a speaking event I had on a college campus. We were...

The Most Powerful Sales Technique That We Learn From Sunsets

“That’s the ugliest sunset I have ever seen!” Now, that’s a line you don’t hear everyday! Yet there is no doubt that you have seen many sunsets in your lifetime....

7 Apps That Should Be Banned From Your Office

We are all – whether we’re the employee or the employer – infinitely distractible. Studies have proven that multitasking is a myth – that while we can switch between and...

What Is Being In Control?

This is likely the most misunderstood concept circulating in modern day society.  Being in control means that all the elements of your life are easily managed by you. Effectively you...

The Best Way To Break The Industry Rules

To know the rules is dangerous. You are likely to adhere to them. Drive down a road without a speed limit sign, you'll guess the likely speed limit and drive...

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