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2010 What Ifs

January 6, 2010

A preview to my San Antonio Business Building Boot Camp, January 13, 2010:
One of the things I love about Twitter is the ability to connect and speak with people I never would have met otherwise. This week I had the fortunate experience of speaking with two super-intelligent business owners: Patty Farmer of Envoy Mortgage & [...]

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Beach Houses And Business Planning

December 28, 2009

When you started your business, did you do it because you wanted to work 80 hours a week? When you took the plunge, was it your hope that you would never see your family? Did you want to lose sleep, lose hair and make Tums your own personal food group? Of course not.
Most small business [...]

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It’s Easy To Be Extraordinary

December 21, 2009

I went to a Christmas bazaar and there was a table full of jewelry goodies. In fact, there were a couple of tables with jewelry goodies. But I stopped at this one because of the woman’s smile. She was engaging without being sales-y:  she asked about me, whether or not I was ready for Christmas [...]

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Purple Cow Prospecting

December 14, 2009

In case you have not read “Purple Cow” by Seth Godin, go get it – today. It’s about being remarkable, how to exceptionally market yourself, your products and your services. The idea is that in a field full of cows, if you’re purple, you’re going to stand out.
Long-term business success requires more than purple cow [...]

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How To Create An Irrelevant Brand

December 9, 2009

None of us ever wakes up, looks in the mirror and says, “Today, my goal is to be irrelevant.” When you go to a networking event or a Tweetup you don’t introduce yourself by saying “Hi. My name is Rose Pineda. I’m a mortgage lender with Mortgages Are Us and I’m irrelevant.” Of course not!
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Charlie Brown Business Sense

December 7, 2009

Forget business for a moment. Let’s talk Christmas trees.
Have you ever been to a tree lot with a perfectionist? That one’s too big. That one’s scrawny. That one has a gap on the left side where a bird had a nest. Too small. Too short. Too green. Too pine-y. Too spruce-y. And after hours of [...]

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The Cure For A 2010 Business Hangover

November 30, 2009

Wow. I looked at the calendar today and realized something. There are less than five weeks until 2010. This lit a fire under me! I don’t want to wake up January 1st with a ten page to do list.  I want to celebrate January 1st with my favorite cup of coffee, a filled appointment book, [...]

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A Word To Recruiters From HR

November 27, 2009

Over the last several months, I have developed relationships with executive search and recruiting professionals on Twitter. Michael Long, Meghan Biro, Jacqui Poindexter (executive resume writing), Mike Ramer, Stephanie Lloyd, Bill Boorman and Brian Shumaker, are people I greatly admire in this arena.  The conversations I have with these folks are always enlightening and inspiring. [...]

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Vampires Friends And Sales

October 29, 2009

So I’ve got a couple of friends who are emotional vampires. Take “Sherry” for example. We started out as great friends! We’d laugh together, shop together, support each other and just hang out. Something started changing though. Sherry started having drama in her life. Serious drama. This happened, that happened and “it’s so terrible.” Over [...]

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Is Honesty The New Authentic

October 5, 2009

How many times have you heard the word “authenticity” in the last seven days? If you are online or went to any of the social media/tech conferences last week, I bet you heard it a bunch. The messages “be yourself”and “be authentic” are the mantras, of social media evangelists. It is the 2.0 way of [...]

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