Each year I present a marketing and strategy seminar with Alan Weiss who is the author of 37 books and the consultant’s consultant! Yes, he is also a Hall of Fame keynote speaker. It is called The Odd Couple because we do not always agree, and we are very different personalities.

One thing we DO agree on is the importance of understand how to market with your website. One of our The Odd Couple speakers is always Chad Barr.

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Is Cold Calling Fun? Not unless you know how! This morning THE Executive Speech Coach Patricia Fripp…yes me! was reading my inbox and found the video from CanDoGo. This is a video service and I have created many of my own. Not only do they give you the video they give you the content.

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The Journey to Simpler Living is a book I have enjoyed and recommend. Jeff Davidson is a great author and has been very prolific. He is also a great speaker and a good dad!

“We have entered an age where the number of items that compete for our time
and attention speed toward us at a frightening pace,” says author Jeff
Davidson, whose latest book, his 56th, Simpler Living: A Back to Basics
Guide to Cleaning, Furnishing, Storing, Decluttering, Streamlining,
Organizing, and More, has just been published.

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Business Writing, Presentation Skills, and Communication expert Dee Dukehart gives us great advice about strong verbs. For great writing and speaking you need to appreciate the value of your word choice. In fact Dee and I both ask our clients ” Are your communication skills costing you money?”

Dee writes “Verbs are the most important and the most used of the over 250,000 words in our dictionary. Verbs show your readers what action took, is taking, or will take place.  Twitter and texting sadly diminish the true value of the written word.

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