Getting Your Fascinator Out

While I just resisted buying the Fascination Advantage Kit online, as it was insufficiently fascinating…how we interest others in our projects, be they new schemes, products or events is – for many of us – an ongoing challenge… And while sticking a bunch of feathers or such like on top of our heads may not

Your Conscience: Is It Strangling Your Success?

So he just writes books about how to have bigger boobs and stuff like that’ says my friend ‘ then he sells millions online, and just hangs out in coffee shops with his laptop’ We are talking about our consciences

5 Thought Hacks To Grow Your Business (includes Mental Chicken quest)

Here’s the thing… You’re just about keeping your business going in these lean times. You’re getting some business in – from well-established customers and clients maybe – but no growth. Everyone you speak to seems to say the same thing: ‘Things are very tight… and we’re just fire-fighting

How to Kill those Presentation Nerves

Before Conference organizers and presentation instructions can be confusing. The best guide to how you match who is in the audience, to what you know and care about, is the attendee list. Let it be your lodestar. Your actual words don’t

How To Sell When You Hate It

Imagine, please, you are a cave person. Paleolithic woman or man. You make a cave painting – a horse, some hunting, a stag. Do you: 1) Yell to everyone in your village ‘Come and see what I’ve done, folks… it’s brilliant!’ 2) Or selectively target individuals

‘Help! I’m Networking – but where’s the Money?’

You go to networking event after networking event. You meet lots of great people and have fun. But none of it seems to convert into business. You work your butt off on twitter providing interesting content and reaction. You’ve nearly 1500 followers…and yet, no one currently wants your services. Fact is: you can be brilliant [...]

Talk To Compel

Results of an experiment here today. First e-book up on Kindle, and – weyhey! – video to go with it. IF YOU SUBSCRIBE, YOU SHOULD RECEIVE A FREE PDF OF THE BOOK.Please let me know if you haven’t. For tech lovers, this project’s involved Open Office, Dreamweaver, Mobipocket, Calibre, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Free Music Downloads, Garage [...]

Spin Skills for Doctors

Tonight I’m talking at a doctors’ awards ceremony in Wales for clinical teacher of the year. Medical academics, or doctors’ teachers need to prove their value, hard to do when you answer to various employers and research budgets are getting axed. For you readers with more general interest and in case of garble tonight, here’s [...]

How Trust Makes Money

We rarely hear contestants in ‘The Apprentice’ making claims like ‘Others can trust me to deliver’ or ‘Relationships are most important to me’. Instead it’s mostly self-puffery and macho silliness, which is so very entertaining. In contrast, I’ve just worked for a professional service firm in crisis: beset by scandal and with a big hole [...]

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