I stayed over last night in Buffalo, NY before driving home this morning home to Toronto. I booked the hotel through Hotwire, which means that you don’t know where you are staying until you have paid for it. The hotel turned out to be Salvatore’s Garden Hotel. Never heard of the place before nor the restaurant they own also nearby. Sometimes you stumble on greatness in the least expected places.
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Reproduced with permission of the author. Charles Marcus is an international motivational speaker. For more information on Charles, please visit his website at www.cmarcus.com. Copyright 2007-2011. All rights worldwide reserved.
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Vol 11, Number 5 May 2011
Vol 11, Number 3 March 2011
There are many ways to get yourself known. Social media is big today and the old standards of direct marketing, advertising in print, radio or TV still apply. A must is a great, easy to navigate website. Get yourself out there offering value. For example write articles or have a blog. Or maybe try the old fashioned “doing something creative to get your name out there”. A new florist in my town had staff standing at the local train station handing out free roses to all the ladies on Valentine’s Day. Be creative!
...read moreVol 11, Number 2 February 2011
In business and life today: It’s not enough to be good, you have to be great, It’s not enough to be impressive, you have to be influential, It’s not enough to be a winner, you have to be a champion
It’s not enough to be creative, you have to be innovative
...read moreVol 11, Number 1 January 2011
Reflect on what is truly important to you, what is working for you, what is not. Be brutally honest with yourself. What would you like to change? How can you do things differently to get you where you want to be?
...read moreVol 10, Number 2 February 2010
Networking is a fact of life, whether we believe it or not. We all need to network, reach out to new people, whether it is professionally, personally, career or business focused. Please do not kid yourself, we are all in the relationship building game whether we are building sales relationships, relationships within our organization to make getting things done easier, relationships with prospective employers if we are in job search mode, or relationships with people who have the same social interests as we do.
...read moreVol 10, Number 9 September 2010
I was reading recently of a grandmother in South Korea who passed her driving test after failing 950 times. Yes, you read correctly, 950 times. After four years of trying and failing, 68 year old Cha Sa-soon who lives in Jeonju, 130 miles south of Seoul, finally achieved her dream.
...read moreVol 10, Number 7-8 Summer 2010
I realized a long time ago that no matter what you want to achieve in life, personally or professionally, you have to surround yourself with good people who are supportive, committed, and competent at the skills they bring to the team. It is rare, the goal that you can accomplish completely on your own.
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Belief is the most crucial game winner because if you do not believe you will achieve, overcome or succeed, you will probably be right. Belief is the lightning rod, the catalyst for all that follows. Truly, truly believe and you will have a better chance of succeeding. Positive attitude is everything.
...read moreVol 10, Number 5 May 2010
When was the last time somebody said to you, “you WOWED me!!” We are always looking for the competitive edge in business today, differentiating ourselves from our competition. Organizations throw around buzz words like branding, culture, mission statement, but how often are these words and not action?
...read moreVol 10, Number 3-4 March-April 2010
Continuing on from the last issue of the newsletter with five further keys to productive and successful networking.
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