RSSDancing Together
Jan 12, 2010 Sales Related
As many of you know, I’m a dancer. I began dancing when I was 8, standing on my father’s toes as we (my mother was relegated to dancing with the instructor) learned Latin dancing. When I was 10 took ballroom dancing classes, and at age 11 I was a ‘regular’ on Connecticut Bandstand (I even got fan letters!).
At different times in my life I taught Cha Cha (!) and became the dance partner of a pro during the Disco/Hustle era. I studied Argentine Tango for 5 years and even spent some weeks studying with a professional in Buenos Aires. I can follow just about any lead in any dance category, and I also like to dance in the middle of the room when my favorite Keb Mo is playing. Dancing fills and soothes my soul. There: you now have all of my secrets.
Since dancing is such an integral part of my life, I dance even as I travel so such places as Perth (THE place in the world for ballroom dancing) or Oslo (where I once did an inadvertent exhibition dance in a very darkly lit nightclub with an apparently famous investigative journalist) or Lubbock (this upcoming Wednesday at Last Chance). But my very very favorite dancing experience is with my local ‘Dancing Together’ group that meets several times a week.
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Tags: body choir, dancing, decision making, five rhythms, flow, gabrielle roth, leadership, webinar
Business Management Daily makes leadership easy
Jan 8, 2010 Favorite URLs
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On January 19th, I’m fortunate to be doing a webinar called Executive Decision Making: influencing with integrity with the folks at Business Management Daily. Not only is this group a highly professional group dedicated to making necessary skills available to business people to ensure they are successful, but they maintain a high level roster of bloggers, articles, and resources so business folks (for both corporate folks and small business owners) have what they need at their finger tips. Their Executive Leadership newsletter, as well as their e-letter The Next Level and books on business negotiating, office politics, etc. are highly professional and cogent. They deal with HR challenges, leadership/decision making skills, people management and office communication.
Tags: business, decision making, speaking, webinar
Sales 2.0: 5 Things You Shouldn’t Expect
Jul 6, 2009 Decisioning & Change Management, Top Posts
Sales 2.0 is the New New Thing.
I hate to be a contrarian (Oh. Ok. I love it. Why change the habits of a lifetime?) but… it’s not the end-all and be-all that it’s being touted as.
Here’s the good news: Sales 2.0 is good for driving people to you. By simply offering a webinar, a free e-book, a White Paper, or some incentive, you can get folks to your site. If your material is good enough, they will Twitter about you, put a TinyUrl about you, link to your site, write you up on their blog. You can gather their data, have some sort of passive or active follow up, use the names on an opt-in list, and get hundreds or thousands of new names on your database.
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Tags: blog, change decisions, closing rate, decision makers, ebook, failure rate, great price, link, manipulate, new new thing, persuade, phone sales, results, sales 2.0, SalesGenius, solution, Tiny URL, Twitter, webinar, White Paper
