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Revenue Chat with Tony DUrso

It’s the truest thing I know: The story you tell the world, changes your world. In this interview, Revenue Chat host Tony DUrso dive deep into creating the legend of you, we discuss whether first impressions even matter in today’s online world and we talk about the big mistake that you and almost everyone else […]

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What’s The Frequency, Now, Kenneth?

For a quarter of a century, Dan Rather was one of the most powerful voices in America. From behind the anchor desk at the CBS Evening News he reached millions of viewers shaping public opinion, influencing national policy and creating conversations around countless dinner tables. Back then, it took one of the largest media conglomerates […]

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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 […]

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Small Business Society Podcast

Thanks to Rob Barisoff for having me on the Bidsy’s Small Business Society Podcast. We go way back to my entrepreneurial roots pushing a lawn mower with a milk jug full of gasoline tied to the handle around East Nashville and talk about the TWO MOST IMPORTANT WORDS for making your small business dreams come […]

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Fear of Missing Out

It was as if there had never been the word “air” and then one day, all anyone could talk about was this new thing called “air” that surrounds us all day every day, that’s fundamental to life itself, that we experience with literally every breath we take. In 2013, they even added it to the […]

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Three C’s of Social Sales: Close More Deals

Coffee’s For Closers – BlakeI didn’t know he had a name either, but he does: Blake, the sales trainer from hell or more precisely from downtown, from Mitch and Murray, from the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. Blake is sent in to whip a failing sales office back into shape – old school style with threats, […]

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The 3 C’s of Social Sales: CONNECT With More Customers

You can write the greatest blog in the world… Create videos that rival anything Hollywood and Madison Avenue offer… Post the most perfectly pseudo sarcastic comment about your immaculately filtered instagram featuring the cutest baby wombat in the known world… but if no one sees it… It didn’t really happen. It takes two to tango […]

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How To Be A Player or 11 Ways To Improve Your Klout Score

About a year ago a list of the most influential people in the automotive industry (according to KLOUT) was published. KLOUT influence isn’t the same thing as real world influence. There wasn’t anyone named Ford on the list or any CEO’s of the automakers or big dealer groups. This was a list of automotive people […]