Top 10 Business, Faith & Faith-at-Work Podcasts (Part 2)

Alrighty, then: Here’s the second (and final) installment of podcasts that send my gray cells a-dancing . . .
Sales Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips For Getting The Deal Done
I confess: As an introvert, the word “sales” used to scare the daylights out of me. But I’m learning we’re all in sales, no matter what we [...]

Top 10 Business, Faith & Faith-at-Work Podcasts (Part I)

If you made me choose between eating and being able to listen to my favorite podcasts for a day, that’d be a tough one for me. They’re my brain food, and consuming them makes me smarter, wiser and happier.
One simple (yet very, very powerful) success principle is choosing carefully whom we listen to and what goes into [...]

Housekeeping, Giveaways & What Makes You Tick

Have I told you lately that I love you? I do.
In fact, the plan was to surprise all you email subscribers today with a nifty little gift as a “thank you” for keeping your eyeballs on this blog. (Seriously, I’m digging into my pocketbook for this one and saving the receipt as a business expense.)
Then [...]

Yay, more free books!

Hi, gang,
What’s better than a free book? Three free books!
This is probably the busiest week of the year for me so I haven’t been able to draft a thoughtful post — instead, I decided to bribe you (you know, in the spirit of Christmas and all). Below are three nifty resources I stumbled into:

For a limited time, Zondervan is [...]

Free Book: The Power of Who

As promised, I’m donating a few of the pre-release books I’ve received from publicists in the past year or so.
Today’s giveaway is
The Power of Who: You Already Know Everyone You Need To Know by Bob Beaudine, and one of you will get it before it comes out to the masses in January, 2009. (Isn’t that [...]

Back from the dead (and 3 nifty tools)

I know, I know. If I’m not going to post regularly, I might as well shut this thing down, right? Yeah, well, that’s exactly what I did several months ago.

Convinced that blogging, in most cases, could be the biggest waste of time since Solitaire came standard on PCs (to borrow an illustration from Rob Eagar [...]

An Instant Boost For Your Marketing Results

Here’s a nifty marketing tool I’ve recently learned about: Yahoo! and Google keyword trend reports.
These two sites let you know the popularity of specific search terms, offer suggestions on stronger, related terms, and, in Google’s case, even lets you know how much competition you’d have marketing those keywords.
So next time you’re gearing up to [...]

STOP

My former boss once was a high-ranking Kodak executive, so he always had a Kodak story to illustrate his points. One of my favorites was the “Stop” story, which never failed to make me giddy as I thought of ways to implement it.
If my memory is accurate, Kodak employees used to walk around with lapel [...]

Assess yourself

How’s your spiritual condition? What are your obstacles to growth?
Find out at Assess-Yourself.org, a web site that provides free self-examination tools designed by researchers at Regent University. The online tests take between 5 and 15 minutes to complete and cover a handful of topics. As the web site states, “self-examination is a Biblical mandate because [...]