tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16443722428009165392016-08-07T12:45:17.248-07:00The Link to knowledge and information to accelerate breakthrough business results!Charles Connershttps://plus.google.com/104894990860041801517noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-38210507573264677692015-01-25T14:47:00.002-08:002015-01-25T14:59:02.311-08:00

By C. Brian Conners - Managing Director of Consultants Link As a start to a new year we usually set new goals and resolutions Most are negative – Don’t, Avoid Results are limited so we don’t bother setting goals The Secret to Getting What You Desire The Power of Intention Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich[i] and Written by Philosophers and Prophets “What the Mind Can Conceive and

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By Brad Lloyd - Linked In Pulse Get their attention You need a birthday cake. In other words, a piece of content that’s exciting, that feels special, and that tastes good. (It doesn't hurt if it also has a great headline.) Not only that, it has to show your potential audience that you know your stuff and that you solve a worthwhile problem. Otherwise they might enjoy scarfing down your content

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Some thoughts on how to live a healthier lifestyle and minimize disease  Excerpts from Dr. Mick Hall’s - Let’s End Illness Now![i] I have never been one to diet nor was I ever interested in doing so. After all, I am not overweight and do not want to lose weight. Nevertheless, time is moving along for me like many Baby Boomers and I more recently have felt the desire to try to live a healthier

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How to Catapult Your Brand Using Radio, TV and Social Media By C. Brian Conners - Managing Director of Consultants Link In span of our professional careers nothing has more personal business value than the brand we have developed for ourselves over the years. Our professional brand’s value to a potential employer (client) is the summary of the value of our professional accomplishments,

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By now, you’ve discovered a potentially great business idea and you’ve thought about exactly what it is you’re going to offer people and why it has value. Next, you need to get out there and start talking to your potential customers. Given that you already know how to talk to people about your business idea, this is going to be easy! The goal here is to learn as much as possible about the

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Brian Conners, Managing Director of  Consultants Link interviews Bill Kliss with Bill Kliss Consulting and also the Managing Director of the Sales and Business Development Group discusses how you too can learn the secrets to opening doors to increase sales to the executive suite. Bill overviews his corporate development program on the opening doors strategies, techniques and sales process to open

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  The Catapult Your Business Show dialogs on the important issues transforming our economy, what that means for each of us, and what some  businesses are doing to catapult business using the levers of today’s digital economy. In our program we cover:   Current events occurring that are transforming our economy New business paradigms and current trends that are transformational Innovative

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Brian Conners, Managing Director of  Consultants Link interviews David Rohlander - Renowned Author of The CEO Code David shares his experience, wisdom and insights on how you can create a masterpiece both personally and professionally - to become a "Maestro" in the eyes of your most precious loved ones, peers, and in business. David discusses the principles of The CEO Code and the "How To's" to

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by Amy Gallo  |   10:23 AM June 24, 2010 Even the most brilliant strategy is worth nothing if it isn’t executed well, especially by your front line — the employees who interact daily with your customers. Unfortunately, these employees are regularly asked to execute strategies that others developed and that they may not understand, never mind feel committed or connected to. In fact, according

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By C. Brian Conners, Managing Director Consultants Link What makes a CEO great? Over the years dozens of books have attempted to answer this question. More often than not, these books focus on characteristics like vision, charisma, operational management skill and leadership. While these are noteworthy attributes of many great CEO’s, one simple metric defines CEO performance above all others.

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Adam McKibbin, Central Desktop - Business Insider Nov. 7, 2013                              Tony Duynstee treated Collabosphere attendees to an entertaining and enlightening talk about his experience with the Navy SEALs – he was a SEAL from 1999 to 2007 and now serves on the board of the Navy SEAL Foundation – and how these experiences can inform your own day-to-day business. “

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By Doug Short - Seeking Alpha - October 24, 2013 The monthly employment report is among the most popular and controversial of the government's economic reports. The latest one released Tuesday was no exception, with its weaker-than-expected new jobs but a decline in the unemployment rate from 7.3% to 7.2%. One of the reasons the monthly employment report is so controversial is that it's an

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BY Geoffrey James - Inc. Magazine What works today is the exact opposite of what worked a decade ago! If you think of marketing as the same thing it was twenty (or even ten) years ago, you're basically screwed. The reason is simple. What works today is the opposite of what worked in the past. The Old Rules Here's are the rules for marketing that are taught in most business courses,

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September 20 2013 by Samantha Howland - Chief Executive Magazine Strategic thinking emphasizes the need to balance today’s performance with future opportunity in order to manage risk and navigate through the uncertainty of the business landscape. The ability to think strategically sparks new ideas and future business propositions that are the lifeblood of long-term success, but many CEOs and

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by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman -  http://blogs.hbr.org/ What do top executives want from their leaders? IBM recently asked this question of 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries. The three leadership traits that most mattered were the ability to focus intensely on customer needs, the ability to collaborate with colleagues — and the ability to inspire. Our own extensive 360° feedback data, which we've

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Excerpts for Social Media Today By Jerry Stanley - JSP Creative - www.jspcreative.com Get the Edge With Video Social media dominates the global communication and information share of today’s society. Video content can greatly amplify your social media marketing on all spheres of the social platform. Wahoo’s, a fast-casual restaurant, got into social media marketing before social media was even

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WILD ABOUT BUSINESS | Peter Gasca May 6, 2013 Exceptional leaders differentiate themselves by doing a few things better. Here are six things you can learn from them. What makes an exceptional leader exceptional? This was the topic I had the fortunate opportunity to discuss recently with a class of graduating university seniors. Many of the students believed that future business leaders

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By Dennis Perkins, “Leading at the Edge Did you ever wonder why some entrepreneurs always seem to have all the luck and success, while others never seem to catch a break? As an Angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. These differences are

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By Michael Brito - Content Marketing Institute  -  April 5, 2013 The term content marketing has been gaining a lot of attention over the last few years, and rightfully so. Content is a lifeline in today’s social ecosystem, so its rise in popularity makes perfect sense. But content marketing holds little benefit if it isn’t supported with a strong content strategy that enables a brand to tell a

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C. Brian Conners, Managing Director - Consultants Link It is pretty well known metric in the venture capital/early stage business funding world that a 10X return potential will give you access to early stage investors looking for large reward opportunities. In a similar vein, delivering 10X value in terms of potential performance improvement, revenue generation or cost savings is a strong

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By Laura Garnett Apr 3, 2013 Inc. Magazine To be truly memorable, figure out where your greatest passions and talents intersect. A recent story on Inc.com laid out Seattle-based cartoonist Jessica Hagey’s 10 characteristics of interesting people. During a presentation at the recent South by Southwest conference based on her new illustrated guide How to Be Interesting, Hagey cut to the core of

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By Patrick Gardner - 19 March 13 - Wired.Co.UK This year 85 percent of luxury marketers plan to increase their digital media spend significantly, according to a survey by Luxury Interactive. The reason: shoppers spend more time online than ever, with mobile adding a particular boost and growing 70 percent last year. People are using their digital devices to discover style alternatives to save

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Got your attention right? “NO” is a pretty harsh word. Just  saying it coveys lots of negativity in my mind, and frankly I just do not like saying NO very often to opportunity.  “Just Say No” was a phrase coined by Nancy Reagan in the 1980’sused to build a campaign against drug use by the young generation.  One thing for sure,  I know it raised the awareness of the drug problem at least for a

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by Michael Schrage  |  February 25, 2013- www.blogs.hbr.org To appreciate how broken most contemporary models of advertising and promotion have become, listen to Jeff Bezos complain about how Amazon's core values are misunderstood. "One of the early examples...was customer reviews," he recalls. "One [critic] wrote to me and said, 'You don't understand your business. You make money when you sell

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By Jack and Suzy Welch The modern marketplace demands that people possess a wide range of skills. But what core qualities are truly essential to career advancement, regardless of industry or job? The answer could fill a book and it has, thousands of times, if not more. Myriad experts claim that career advancement is a function of everything from extreme self-confidence to extreme humility (or

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