Don’t be afraid of the word Budget Happy New Year! I hope everyone is enjoying a great start to the year…the corporate world will slowly fire up by the middle of this week and we are off to the races. The first few weeks of the year will see a lot of budgets signed off [...]

Don’t Stop Believin!  Happy Sunday! This past Friday, Daniele gave me the gift of going to see Rock of Ages with my two sons, thanks sweetheart. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, I highly recommend it. It is chalked full of songs that throw you back in to the 80’s, my generation [...]

Use Events to Network your way to Success!  Happy Sunday! As a reminder to everyone…turn your clocks back if you haven’t already…We just got back from Author 101 University this week. I want to congratulate Rick and his team for putting on yet another stellar event. If you haven’t been to Author 101 University, mark [...]

The Law of Averages Early on in my sales career, I had the fortunate opportunity of being given a cassette tape of Jim Rohn, one of the greatest philosophers of our time. I still have the tape today and listen to Jim’s philosophies often. One of the things that he talks about on the tape [...]

It takes teamwork… Happy Sunday! A beautiful morning here, I was reminded that it is almost time to turn the clocks back by how dark it was outside. I must admit though that when it comes to turning them back I STILL need to be reminded by my beloved…without her reminding me, I would forget. [...]

 Marketing is about Selling more STUFF!  Happy Sunday!  I hope everyone is having a stellar weekend. This week I thought I would come back to a point that I have talked about several times but want to provide a different approach of how to think about it because I really think it’s important. A lot [...]

Manage your Corporate Partnerships with Over-Communication So you have landed yourself a corporate partner, now what? Hopefully you have signed a multi year agreement with them. Its quite common in a new relationship, that this will not be the case and you will have a year to prove your worth to them. In this case [...]

Learn to balance work and play….learn to take time for yourself! What do they say? All work and no play…. An apple a day keeps the doctor away… All Play and no work? What ever it is, this weeks tip really has to do with making sure you take the time to balance work and [...]

Want corporate partners? Buckle up for the Ultimate roller coaster ride! In all my years of selling sponsorship, I have experienced some of the most incredible emotional highs and some unbelievable lows. If I could define sponsorship sales to someone that is new to this arena, is that it can really play with your feelings [...]

Want a Corporate Sponsor? Think Social Responsibility  Happy Fourth of July to all of our American Friends! I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend.   It is a great thing to see that a lot more of us in society today taking responsibility and being active when it comes to the environment and other [...]