Personal Growth

Acting Happy – The Upside and Downside

Acting happy when you don’t feel happy is an important skill to master. Sometimes acting happy can help you get more of what you want out of life.  Our culture favors happy faces which is evident by the smiles that greet you on billboards and in advertisements.   People are drawn to happy individuals. When you […]

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The Love Club: A new approach to business networking

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Read This Book: Learn how to: Create a more effective way to get clients Make more money by maximizing your business development budget Have time to focus more on what makes you happy and what you love to do Become a master networker Create more enjoyment in your work

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Fishing In the Ocean vs. Fishing in a Well-Stocked Pond

[This post is an excerpt from my book, The Love Club: A New Approach to Networking.  Click here to get your own copy.] The well-stocked pond concept definitely comes into play when it comes to networking and networking events.  Say I want to catch a trout and I have a choice of going to two

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Lunch and Learn: On-line, Off-line Marketing

I teamed up with Social Media/Web Designer, Judi Knight of New Tricks to do an On-line, Off-Line Marketing Lunch and Learn. We had a wonderful group, and it was great to see people busily making new business contacts and actually getting new referrals.  All that plus a tasty, fun lunch.  Here are the slide presentations.

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The Power of the Positive Sandwich, Delivering Difficult Discussion

“Life is like a sandwich – the more you add to it, the better it becomes.” ~Author Unknown Politicians know it. Salespeople really know it. Even new parents know it, or quickly learn it. What is “it?” To deliver something distasteful, wrap it up in something good! Martin Luther King, perhaps one of our era’s

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