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Lesson #2: Passion is the Key in a Successful Business Recipe
“You have to have passion when you’re finding a recipe for a career,” says Fields. “If you love what you are doing, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Ten Rules for Being a Good Conference Panelist
Having moderated many conference panels, and participated on many more of same -- and suffered through even more as an audience member -- I've decided to share some words of advice, even if it's mostly intended to give me something to point panelists to the next time I'm a moderator.

10 Rules for Being a Great Panel Moderator
Having moderated many conference panels, and participated on many more of same -- and suffered through even more as an audience member -- I've decided to share some words of advice on moderating a panel (I offered rules for being a panelist in a prior post). Being a moderator is nowhere near as easy as people seemingly think, and most people are crummy at it.
Top 5 Ways to Get the Most Bang for Your Fulfillment Buck
Let's face it, as creative marketers, fulfillment services are often the least important element of our marketing plans, and frequently not even a part of our budgets. After all, we think, how hard (or expensive) can it be to put a few packets together, or assemble a few thousand sales kits? I mean, it's not rocket science, for goodness sake! So why does the cost add up so fast?
Business Card Marketing
Do you have a box of business cards on your desk that you hardly seem to put a dent in before the information changes and a new box is ordered? Or worse yet...are you still working on that same box of business cards that you printed 3 years ago! Business cards can be a great inexpensive marketing tool for a small business. They say exactly what you do and give people all the contact information they need to get a hold of you. Yet oddly enough we tend to use them only for networking, and even then, we aren't really sure if people are holding on to them.

A Message To Graduating MBA’s
I gave a talk yesterday to a class of soon-to-graduate MBA students at CU Boulder yesterday. It was their last class in the course that had been filled with a bunch of interesting VC and entrepreneurial guest lecturers. We did Q&A for several hours, covered a lot of ground, and had plenty of fun (or at least I did.) At the end, the professor asked if I had any final words of advice to the room full of MBA’s who were about to graduate. I thought for a moment and then said an abbreviated version of the following.

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11 lessons
A few words of advice before and after you decide to quit your day job and become a freelance techie or an entrepreneur whatever comes first.

The Strategic Use of Powerful Words For Your Marketing - Advice From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Spoken and written words carry awesome power. The words & phrases that you use in your daily business and personal life are extremely important. Our words can add positive power and help us gain success or our words can add negative power and help reduce or prohibit success. This is especially true in marketing. Words make a huge difference in the degree of impact from your marketing communications. One of my favorite sources of insightful and powerful marketing advice is Steve Hackney of Hackney Marketing Ltd. Located in Leicester, UK. According to Steve Hackney, there are a number of “magic” and “hypnotic” words that you can use to increase the power of your marketing. Steve Hackney’s list includes the following 28 words. Steve also provides a list of what he calls “killer words” will make people lose interest or stop reading.
Sales Secrets - The Best Advice
Some advice you receive naturally falls by the wayside. Some advice sticks to your ribs for a lifetime. See some of the advice that has made a difference.
Words of Power
Words have power – words spoken with clear intent and emotion carry more power than just random words on a page. Many businesses try and create their business plan or marketing material by just copying what someone else has done. They take the words, shuffle them around a bit and then label it with their company name.
The Power of Words in Marketing
Words are a funny thing. You can use them to get rich but if you use them incorrectly they will make you poor. Words can be used to make peace or start a war. Words are definitely powerful. Some words work with one industry while the same ones do not work in another. The following has some important information on words relating to marketing, ad copy and conversation in sales.

Internet Businesses - The First Advice You Must Listen To Before Any Other
Advice is cheap and anybody can give advice. But there are some advice that is worth a minute or two or your time.
••••••>Avoid the Use of "Stop Words" in Your Keyword Selections
SEO involves the process of investigating keywords to use on your site, do not waste your time on using Stop Words in your keyword selections. Stop words are actually ignored by Google and the other search engine spiders. Stop words are small, common words that are used on every website: words like "a," "the," and "and" are the most frequently used words on the Internet and should be avoided in keywords when possible.

Selling on EBay - How to Increase Your Online Auction Sale on EBay
I have tested changing just 2 words that were deep in the text, words that made it clear I cared a great deal about making a sale. I changed them into words that were indifferent and the response went up by 180%. What were those words?
Ode to Words
Enrich your vocabulary every day by scheduling time to read. Be curious about the words you don’t understand. Become aware of the words that live inside your head by journaling. Use the power of words by adopting a mantra. Our language shapes our thinking. Our words ultimately define us. Who do you want to be?
What language are YOU speaking?
Why do salespeople speak the “language of words” when their customers are speaking the “language of numbers”? Salespeople are using words to describe their features and functions; they use words in describing their benefits. They use words in their PowerPoint presentations, proposals and collateral materials. Words everywhere! Where’s the $, %, #’s?
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