Financial Services, Speaker and Coach

Understand What You Sell

Financial advisors commonly look for and attempt to offer the “best performing” investment products, in spite of the fact that one of the basic tenets of the industry is “Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.” An investment wholesaler (a true master of the profession) at a tier-one mutual fund recently shared an […]

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The Great Digital Scavenger Hunt: Six Tools For Finding Professional Speakers Using the Web

Budgets are tight and getting tighter. Every facet of the meeting planner’s day involves facing an onslaught of details preparing for an event. Selecting sites that fit the bill, building menus, choosing premium items, and coordinating agendas with the input of multiple constituencies and coordinating an endless flood of details are just a few of […]

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New Years Resolutions

Let’s make this short and sweet: What is one activity/project/behavior you want to START doing in 2010? What is one activity/project/behavior you want to STOP doing in 2010? What is one activity/project/behavior you want to KEEP doing in 2010? If you list and follow through on these three items, you are ahead of most people. […]

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The Role Of Word-Of-Mouth Advertising: Five Steps To Grow Your Business

Mayo Clinic is the largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice in the world. More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers and 46,000 allied health staff work at Mayo Clinic, which has sites in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. Collectively, the three locations treat more than half a million people each year.  In 2008, […]

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Take Two Minutes To Say Thanks To A Soldier in Iraq

Your opportunity to build a professional services business depends on you and your sweat equity – as well upon upon the efforts of many others. At this time of year remember the American men and women who allow you to enjoy the blessings of  freedom and opportunity to grow your own business. Our soldiers need […]

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