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If You Want to Be Valued, You Must Add Value
This is a simple post because the idea itself is simple yet surprisingly I encounter a lot of people who still get it wrong. Hopefully you’re not one of them. If you want to be valued, you must add value. There are no free lunches and no one owes us anything. Just because someone has [...]
Continue reading...When is the best time to post on Facebook? Here’s the Answer…
3. February 2011
Last week I posted “Want to Know the Best Time to Tweet / Update on Twitter? Here’s How…” The post has received a lot of retweets on Twitter, organic search traffic coming in from Google, residual traffic, etc. It appears to have served a need. So today I thought I’d tackle relatively the same question [...]
Continue reading...Highest Traffic Blog Posts for January 2011
2. February 2011
Here are a few of my highest traffic posts for January 2011 (based on WordPress Stats). 1. The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do 2. What can we learn from Ted Williams? The homeless man with the Golden Voice 3. Top Books Every Young Influencer / Leader Should [...]
Continue reading...Free Resources for Leaders and Influencers
23. January 2011
I’ve recently shared a number of free resources for leaders and influencers via Twitter and the Leadership and Influence Summit (another resource for you with videos from leading experts) but now I’m going to bring them all together (and more) here on this post. I hope you will find them beneficial in expanding your leadership [...]
Continue reading...Effective Collaboration Begins by Building Relationship Equity First
21. January 2011
If you want to multiply your impact, it’s hard to do it by yourself. You need others and I’m not just talking about employees or a team underneath you to help support your efforts. I’m talking about collaboration to do something bigger TOGETHER than what you could do alone. “Something bigger” could be as grand [...]
Continue reading...My One Word for 2011: Residual
14. January 2011
There are many ways to kick-start your new year and make it the best it can be. Chris Brogan talks about the significance of using 3 Words as your guiding pillars for focus. Jon Gordon talks about One Word and The Road to Success (Vision and Alignment). Michael Hyatt talks about yet another point that [...]
Continue reading...4 Ways to Deal with Negativity, Pessimism and Chronic Complaining
13. January 2011
We all know them, those people within our lives and organizations who are negative… who seem to only see the worst in every situation and who would rather complain than seek a solution. Their constant negativity is a like a disease that infects everyone else around them, slowly robbing themselves and others of joy, happiness, [...]
Continue reading...Improve Your Relationships and Make Someone’s Day with this 13 Letter Word
11. January 2011
It doesn’t really cost you anything other than a little bit of your time but it very well could be the best thing you give away today… Encouragement Our words have power. Power that we often overlook because of how busy we can tend to be. It’s not that we don’t appreciate others but it’s [...]
Continue reading...3 Lessons from Groupon and Facebook That Should Change Your Life
10. January 2011
Consider this… GROUPON is estimated to have a worth of between 3 BILLION and 6 BILLION. FACEBOOK is estimated to have a worth of over 50 BILLION. But here’s the thing… Neither of these entities existed more than 6 years ago. Groupon didn’t even exist until November 2008, a little over 2 years ago. What’s [...]
Continue reading...The Best Way to Attract More Followers
10. January 2011
It’s a pretty simple formula. If you want others to value you enough to follow you then you have to start by giving them something worth following. You must add value in some way that makes the investment of their time (and potentially resources) worth it. Just like if you want better friendships you have [...]
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10. February 2011
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