This week co-host Tomas Lydahl and I had the chance to speak with Jeremy Goldman (better known on Twitter as @jeremarketer.) Jeremy is an author, speaker, and strategist for a number of brands in the beauty and consumer goods categories. He can be found at jeremygoldman.com and goingsoci.al and his debut book “Going Social: Excite […]
World-class sales trainer, author, and speaker Jeffrey Gitomer often references the classic children’s book “The Little Engine that Could” by Watty Piper as one of the earliest and purest examples of sharing a philosophy of how having a YES! Attitude drives personal success. The main character and focus of the story is, of course, The […]
This week’s show features my friend Jim Canterucci. Jim shares insights on innovation along with details on using the four creative catalysts from his book “Personal Brilliance.” Jim also reveals the 5 Magic Sales Words! Jim Canterucci is the author of Personal Brilliance, founder of Transition Management Advisors, and ELCircle – The Development Hub for Emerging Leaders a […]
My friend and fellow Gitomer Certified Speaker, Tomas Lydahl, has been doing an internet radio show in Sweden for the past few months and has successfully built an audience using the BlogTalkRadio.com format. Since Tomas also does training and speaking in the USA, he decided to do an English language version and asked me to […]
You’d think if you’d done something 730+ times and counting you’d be perfect at it by now, right? This year marks the beginning of the third year in a row in which I begin every single one of my days by reading, contemplating, and finding better ways to put into action the valuable advice found […]
My favorite Chris Anderson book will apparently always be the “latest” Chris Anderson book — he keeps topping himself. The Long Tail blew me away, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing sparked new ideas, and now his most recent work Makers: The New Industrial Revolution has me thinking about the steps that follow idea generation — […]
Note: This is a full-on rant about sales that I just published over at my other blog, www.YouSuckAtSales.com — but I felt there were enough ideas on how to remedy their “sales fails” that it qualified to be shared on the Idea Guy site. I just received a cold-call from a mobile marketing company trying […]