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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | PHOENIX RISING SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 The Thin Line Between Persuasion and Manipulation Here are some questions to ask yourself that might help you draw your line. What if I said that sales and marketing's job is to 'manipulate' perception in the market? How did you react when you read the word manipulate? Probably not too positively. Manipulation is something bad people do, right? Yet we practice the art of persuasion every day in our businesses. We bend our audiences' beliefs through the stories and information we share, through the brand or image we create, through the sales discussions we guide so carefully. | PHOENIX RISING MARCH 10, 2010 8 Signs of a Positive Leader Leaders rise above the negative path - finding positive aspects in any situation to help their followers find a better way to live and grow. When they comment - it's always in the spirit of positive, helpful and supportive advice or wisdom. Yesterday I added my two cents on sensationalism across so many aspects of our lives. Today - I want to share my perspectives on the signs of a great leader. Not the sensationalism oriented gurus that seem to be popular today. Those approaches may not be the best to follow. So here's my list. Positive, no Matter What. | | | | | | | PHOENIX RISING DECEMBER 31, 2009 Think Small Every morning we can wake up, resolve to help out a fellow employee whose been having a rough time lately, smile at a gloomy stranger on the street or do that special something for a loved one whose been so good to us. In the meantime, we can begin everyday with a commitment help another through some small yet meaningful gesture. This year, I'm going to help one person every day of my year. It's the day for New Year's Resolutions yet again. What a worthy cause! So why wait til New Year's? Small acts can make a huge difference. | PHOENIX RISING NOVEMBER 24, 2009 Friends Who Are My Family! During the really hard times, when I was care-taking my mom, then dad, then my friend with AIDS, they helped hold me together. We laugh at life, share our experiences, help each other in as many ways as their are needs. I've been on my own most of my adult life. I don't mind being alone. I'm an only child of two only children who had me at 42. grew up as the only kid in my neighborhood. Now that my folks are gone, I don't have close family since I don't have kids. The good news? get to choose my family. I'm so blessed by my special family. | PHOENIX RISING JANUARY 24, 2010 No DMs Please Can I help? Just when I thought it was bad - it got worse. We all know how annoying all the Twitter 'Thanks for following' DMs are, right? Mine have become downright out of control these days. I miss my friends DMs thanks to all the SPAM in my DM column. It's worse than email because I can't block Tweets. wouldn't mind the DMs so much if they really were thanking me and/or offering something valuable. But we know that's not true either. Recently I've been paying a bit more attention to those pesky DMs. | PHOENIX RISING FEBRUARY 7, 2010 Twisten Carefully found my favorite art director (who I haven't spoken to in 10 years) and now he's helping me with some re-branding. Thanks to the Twitter Vortex, I have the perfect team to help me launch 'Rebel 2.0' Harvard Business Review ran an article last week entitled ' Let's Tweet About Something Important! ' I was yet again surprised by the premise of the article - that the power of social networking is being hijacked by frivolous, not-important-at-all information. We all know there's a lot of noise out there. And there's my point. | | | | | | | | | -
PHOENIX RISING | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010 It's the Relationship! We've forgotten the simple universal laws that will help us to create success in all our worlds. Go Givers Sell More helps us remember our truth. What if success, in life and business, is as easy as giving to others, creating value for them, helping them succeed. So my early training was all about taking care of others, giving my all, sharing my blessing and focusing on giving everything to those who needed my help. I've given my time, talents, energy, heart and soul to anyone who needed help along the way. It’s not about you; it’s about them. MORE >> -
PHOENIX RISING | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009 Learning to Say No also helped out every broken-winged bird that came my way, from friends and family to people I met in business. Maybe it's as simple as offering to help an employee learn to do something for themselves instead of picking up the slack. I admire all my associates who just say No. When a client or friend asks them for that little extra something, they sometimes graciously decline. They know exactly where their boundaries are, in business and in their personal lives, and they honor them. I'm learning that skill - it's about time. No problem. It's funny. MORE >> -
PHOENIX RISING | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009 Lessons From a Porch Light Con artists offer to share their multi-million dollar bank accounts in the US if I'll only help them with a small funding. The last few weeks I've had a barrage of pornographic messages on Twitter. They are obscene, graphic and embarrassing. block the senders and delete the messages, but they just keep coming. My other friends are getting them as well. We all feel so powerless to do anything to stop them - so we do the best we can and delete and block - again and again. My email reflects Twitter. My personal space is filled with blatant disrespect. MORE >> -
PHOENIX RISING | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010 Is Yesterday's News Preventing Your Success? While I was helping clients and their investors make fortunes, I didn't allow myself to receive more than 'just enough' everyone I know had a big hit. My good friend Bob Burg, and his co-author John David Mann, opened my eyes to the concept of receiving. Thanks to their wonderful series of Go-Giver books, I learned about my very own unconscious belief pattern that was blocking my receiving. Yes, I've always received enough to have a good life, but never better than good. Everyone but me. I gave and gave and gave - to clients, friends and family. MORE >> -
PHOENIX RISING | WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009 A Shiny Needle in the B2B Marketing Haystack I personally value the connection this creates for me with bloggers that I've been reading for a while and it helps me to find the best content from them. Tom's right that there are a host of longer term monetization possibilities, but I don't see those for the B2B marketing zone itself as much as I do in helping B2B marketers see that there's value in this for attracting audiences around all sorts of B2B topics. Who are your readers and how are you helping them? Tom Pick and Tony Karrer decided to do something about it. MORE >>
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- If it Looks like a Duck. PHOENIX RISING | TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010
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- Don't SWAG Your SWOT! PHOENIX RISING | THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2009
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- Are you Expanding or Contracting? PHOENIX RISING | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009
- Are you Expanding or Contracting? PHOENIX RISING | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009
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- I Really Should. PHOENIX RISING | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009
- I'll Try. PHOENIX RISING | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
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