Archive for Entrepreneur View
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Fox News Houston – Channel 26 – Branding Yourself and Your Company
I am in Houston today delivering two presentations on the power of creating a strong personal and professional brand. Sales, marketing, networking, PR, business development, customer service and social media all wrap up together to be part of your brand and reputation. You must put all the pieces ...
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Busy, But No Complaints! – The Life of A Motivational Speaker
I have spent a large part of the weekend preparing for six presentations that I will be giving this week. That is a new record for number of speeches I will have delivered in a five day period. I am excited because I will be speaking to over 1000 people from a variety of backgrounds, specialties...
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Conflict AND Why Email Can Be A Bad Way To Communicate
We have to be careful. A quickly written email can easily take on a life of its own and offend another person. It is hard to come back from a bad first impression. It happens to everyone. Innuendo and meaning of the written word can easily get off track, and not come across the same as if you ...
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The Thin Green Line
If you want to know about delivering value to customers, look at how restaurants and sandwich shops dole out the guacamole. Growing up we had an avocado tree in the back yard (a perk of growing up in Los Angeles). Slices of the green delicacy and piles of guacamole were a standard with most meal...
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Umbrellas Needed: Elements of a Heavy Rain Maker
I wrote the below article originally for the February/March 2010 edition of Originate! (an online Legal Business Development Magazine). Many attorneys proclaim that they want to be rainmakers. They want to be one of those lawyers who are experts in their field while simultaneously being a wizard ...
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Interview on Will Dearman’s "The Strategy Blog"
A while back I sat down with Will Dearman from "The Strategy Blog" for an interview. I knew Will when he lived in Austin, TX. He is now based in New York City. Here is the video. (Click this link if video will not play) Have A Great Day thom ...
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Networking Guide For Real Estate
March 1, 2010 is the official release date for my newest book, "Some Assembly Required: A Networking Guide for Real Estate". Co-written with top real estate entrepreneur Chad Goldwasser, this is the third book in the Some Assembly Required series. If you are a Real Estate Professional, or know...
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Three Days Left On Our February Fundraiser For "The Kate Singer Endowment for Cranio-Facial Surgery and Research"
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 3rd Annual fundraiser for Dell Children's Hosptial. We have found this is a great way to celebrate Kate's birthday each year, as our family knows how fortunate we are to have come through the issues with Kate's head eight years ago. We appreciate the...
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"America’s Secret Weapon is Entrepreneurs" (Entrepreneurs Organization, EO Accelerator, ATI, and CTAN Co-Host Evening With Jack McDonald)
Four of Austin's top organizations that support the entrepreneurial community (Entrepreneurs Organization, EO Accelerator, ATI, and CTAN) co-hosted an event to bring their members together on Tuesday night. Not even the "Blizzard of 2010" could stop entrepreneurs from showing up to network and list...
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Eve Richter talks about her view of Startups
Where are you from originally? This is always a fun one. Born in NY, then NJ, RI, MA (Boston), Los Angeles (graduated from Santa Monica High School), then Sacramento for almost 20 years. So I’m both a Yankee AND a Californian. So much beloved here in Texas, without a doubt. I’m a Red Sox Fan by...
