Archive | May, 2012

What 100 Posts Has Taught Me About Blogging: Part 2

This post is the 2nd part of series that outlines things I’ve learned post 100 notches on my blogging belt. Pun, anyone? The first post provided insight into what I’ve learned about continuity and how to avoid heading to the 19th hole after 4 posts. Here I’ll outline the process I’ve arrived at and why [...]

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What 100 Posts Has Taught Me About Blogging: Part 1

This is my 100th blog post. I thought I’d take this as an opportunity to share some things I’ve learned about blogging. I previously wrote on why I think everyone should blog here which speaks to a lot of things I’ve picked up about the benefits of blogging. In this series of posts I’ll focus [...]

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How to End A First Pitch and Owning the Sale

Your pitch goes perfect, the guy on the other side is fired up…this one is in the bag! But what unfolds is different than what you expected. Your emails go unreturned. Your calls are ignored. You’re left scratching your noggin at the radio silence. This ever happen to you? It has to me plenty and [...]

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Things You Might Want to Know for Tough Mudder

I did my first Tough Mudder event in the Poconos this weekend with my buddies Derek and Mark. It was awesome. I have a lot of friends who seem interested so I thought it’d be useful to highlight things which I would have liked to know going into the event. Training Dude 12 miles!? – [...]

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My BD Toolkit

I thought it might be useful to highlight some products I use on the reg for BD. Rapportive For those that aren’t familiar, Rapportive is a gmail plugin that populates social profile information attached to an email address in your inbox. It sharpens my BD blade in a variety of ways: Context/Rapport Building – People [...]

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Choice

I LOVE trying new things and am addicted to the upside that accompanies the unknown. But when faced with too many choices, my adventurous aspirations relinquish and I find myself retreating to familiarity. I noticed this multiple instances over the past week: Dinner at Gracefully – The market at my house has 30+ different sandwich [...]

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