Category Archive: Personal Branding

LinkedIn for Sales Professionals

Judy Schramm offers 3 LinkedIn strategies salespeople can use to grow their business today at this recent Nashville Association of Sales Professionals meeting. Stephen Covey says trust is the combination of competence and character. And there are so many areas on LinkedIn where you can demonstrate competence and show your character.  Click to Tweet Share […]

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Automotive Sales Training / Online Workshop

• 45 minutes of KAPOWW!!!• It’s like a reality showfor your sales team• Compete for valuablecash & prizesThe sad truth is most sales training goes in one ear and out the other because most sales training is about as exciting as plain vanilla ice cream.My virtual sale training program is more like chocolate covered fireworks […]

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Erik Deckers – Do People Love To See You Coming…. or Going?

When people see you walk into a room or they look down at their phone and see it’s you calling them, they have one of two immediate, emotional responses.  Oh, Good or Oh Shit! Which response they have is your personal brand, according to today’s guest on the Get Ya Some Radio Show, Erik Deckers, author of […]

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Good Ol’ Rocky Top & the Undeniable Power of Social Media

When Greg Schiano woke up Sunday morning, life was pretty good. He had a cushy assistant coaching job at a big-time football school making close to three-quarters of a million dollars a year, he had a handful of other big-time football schools bidding for his services, and he was about to quintuple his income.  It’s good work […]

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Ten Years Ago The Car Business As We Knew It Ceased To Exist

January 9, 2007. That was the day that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the universe. Just a few months earlier, Mark Zuckerberg had opened Facebook up to anyone with a valid email address. Before then, only the cool kids were allowed at the table. The unique combination of having fingertip access to both the […]

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The Creative Magic Unchained Podcast

You never really know where an interview is going to go. I’m a few decades removed from my college experience, but Frederic Bye and I spend a good portion of my appearance on his Creative Magic Unchained podcast talking about whether college is even necessary in today’s economy and how picking a major, picking a […]

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Launching Your Book, Spreading The Word & Making Yourself Famous

It sounds like the start of the most elaborate, poorly constructed joke in the history of elaborate, poorly constructed jokes: A redneck from Nashville, a Nigerian radio host, a New York Jew who lives in a 90 square foot house and an author of lesbian romance novels walk into a bar. But the thing is: […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Not Taught by Jim Keenan

Our brain has all kinds of biases that trick us into misreading reality and paying attention to the wrong things. Today’s lesson is on Survivorship Bias. Survivorship Bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that “survived” some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of […]