Whether you’re trying to pitch a product or yourself as a person, selling is never easy. (On the latter point, just ask anyone who has to negotiate daily with a toddler in hopes of getting them to eat their vegetables.) But by mastering the art of the sale, [...]
Earlier in the year, our futurist experts took a closer look at key innovation and technology trends for 2013 amongst connected devices, and specifically explored the future of connected devices and digital entertainment with NPR. As part of our recent series on the future of high-tech entertainment, cloud [...]
January 25, 2013
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Online influencers are probably the most important component in the Internet marketing and promotion value chain. The challenge is to identify and connect with the right kind of authorities that can have a major impact on promoting a website, blog, business, brand, or individual. According to a Forrester [...]
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If you're planning a corporate meeting or special event for your company, your choice of professional keynote speaker to kick off the itinerary can be every bit as important as the venue, theme and timing for the occasion. While not every conference may call for the services of [...]
As any veteran CEO, manager and entrepreneur knows, there are many business lessons to be learned—and many of them can only be learned the hard way. While we’d all love to experience instant success, we learn so much more when we mess up, pick ourselves off the ground, [...]
Being both entrepreneur and consultant to businesses of every size, including Fortune 500 corporations, startups and small enterprises, yours truly has had the privilege of seeing the corporate world from all sides of the fence. Needless to say, starting and running an organization are two of this business [...]
Social media is the go-to service for online marketing these days, but there’s still a lot of value in email marketing services like newsletters, flyers, advertisements and deals. Literature that’s delivered via email allows you to deliver more in-depth information than Twitter affords, and you can also customize [...]
School speaker and #1 bestselling author Scott Steinberg explains why education matters, from middle school to high school, college and beyond. A must-see.
You don't have to be the best keynote speaker, strategic consultant or senior management executive in the world to realize: Change is omnipresent in all aspects of professional life today, and increasingly impacting organizations at a rate that would make yesterday's business leaders' heads spin. Markets, best practices, [...]
What many professional speakers will tell you is that luck stands for laboring under correct knowledge (L.U.C.K.) - being less fond of catchy mnemonics, and more practically-minded, we'd actually argue it's more a function of strategy, timing and persistence. Which is to say that "luck is hard work," [...]