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Toy Story 3 is an incredible story. Yep, even at my age I cried through the buildup to the ending. (The fact that my oldest three children are 20, 18, and 16 may have something to do with that; the three youngest are getting old, too: 8, 10, and 13; so, yes, it’s expensive to [...]
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Seth continues to demonstrate the use of new currency: free. Here’s his personal addendum to the best-selling Linchin. It’s called Insubordinate.
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Wherever I go to speak, entrepreneurs and corporate marketing professionals come up to me afterward and ask, “But what do we DO with social media?”
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Now that everyone is a publishing, sooner or later, you will have to deal with a negative blog review. When someone posts negative comments about you or your work online, it will feel like a bad experience. It’s actually a relationship-building opportunity. Recently blogger Bill Parlaman wrote a negative review of a post by Michael [...]
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There are NO tips, NO habits, NO secrets, NO steps to success in this clip. HOWEVER, if you’ll pay close attention to it, and to the subject, Chris Brogan, you will see a way under-utilized key to success anyway. Chris doesn’t talk about ROI, making money, building connections, or creating compelling content. All his does [...]
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Want to accumulate influence? Here’s the really, really cool thing about it: all you have to do is really pay a lot of attention to others. Boom. There you go. That’s it. When that attention comes from a heart overflowing with a genuine interest and care for others, you’re well on your way to becoming [...]
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Okay, yes, Chris Brogan is a living legend amongst bloggers. AdAge not only lists him as a Power 150 blogger, they keep him in the top 5. Yes, Chris is also an accomplished author and extremely well-paid professional speaker, too. So, when this legend goes to a conference, what does he expect? Just before the [...]
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Author of See You at the Top, Secrets of Closing the Sale, How to Raise Positive Kids in a Negative World, Courtship After Marriage and more—Zig Ziglar—LIVES character. Though I’m thrilled beyond measure to be a speaker on the same program with Zig, I was even more blessed to stand back and simply watch him. [...]
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“Ideas worth sharing.” You probably recognize the famous tagline of TED, the phenomenal annual meeting of super bright presenters. Hopefully you’re already a regular consumer of the free video content offered through TED and, if you’re an iPhone user, hopefully you’ve already downloaded the TED app (yep, there IS an app for that). Here’s a [...]
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Bet you heard the economy stinks, right? Bet you actually might even FEEL something that sure feels like a stinky economy. As of this moment, Edelman Digital has 30 job openings. How do I know this? I heard it directly from Rick Murray, President of Edelman Digital. Rick says Edelman is always on the lookout [...]
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The Brandbuilder (Olivier Blanchard) posted another solid entry on his blog again today. (I read his blog most of the time, but especially over the past few days, since he, Chris Brogan and I will be heading to England to speak at the Like Minds Conference next week). He titled the post “The answer to [...]
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Love the title: Just Listen! Released late in 2009, it’s already a best seller. Its author is a well-known psychiatrist, consultant, business coach. He also wrote Get Out of Your Own Way and Get Out of Your Own Way at Work. He writes a leadership column for FastCompany and is a syndicated columnist, including columns [...]
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Last year, 2009, was a remarkable year. The explosive growth of social media carried with it many first time authors and first time public speakers. As an Advanced Toastmaster Gold and a member of the National Speakers Association, I’m thrilled to see so many people beginning to express themselves in public and share their best [...]
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“You have two ears but only one mouth,” my grandmother often told me. “That’s so you can do twice as much listening as talking,” she said. Grandma made her point. Most of us have to work hard to stop talking and pay attention to what others are saying. Listening, though, takes a lot more than [...]
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