Image by Alalettre (carried away by the smous attitude !) via Flickr It’s time to discuss the one word that often is the differentiators between great plans and weak ones. I wanted to share a quick story about why I thought of writing this post (maybe it will bring up thoughts you can share as well in comments). After a trip to Miami for a pitch to a client on December 18th, I found myself airport...

Image by ecstaticist via Flickr So your organization has tasked you with driving leads to generate sales. I know…same old story, no leads from Marketing, no leads from your VP of Sales and the Sales Training was a bunch of Brochures, a website that lacks anything with Lead Magnets (that’s eBooks, Buyers Guides, Research based PDF’s) and a few conversations with the folks who have been...

What Matters Now Thanks to Seth and MarketingProfs for putting out this early thought manual of top leaders and what they are planning on doing in 2010. Seth said, let’s see if we can get this in the hands of 5 million people-so let’s pass this along by ReTweeting and Reposting on your blog. Why do I think you need to download and read this? I live this life, everyday, working my rear end off and...

Image via Wikipedia As posted in Mashable today…let’s see how this turns out in 2010. 2010 Social Media Influencers – Trend Predictions in 140 Characters, by TrendsSpotting View more documents from Taly Weiss. What would you add to this list that you have seen and plan to see in 2010? Related articles by Zemanta What Are You Thankful For in Social Media? (mashable.com) Screenshots...

This is not for the weak of  hearts, however, you can cut through maddening amounts of time by using LinkedIn’s Advanced Search tool and some “Code Guy” type techniques. Let’s look at how this works and then the operators that can help drive very interesting searches in far less time. Tough? Let’s look at how we can make this simple: If you would like to do a complex search (for...