Entries by Rhoda Israelov

In Blog Marketing, It’s Not Okay to Quit

  “It’s okay to quit sometimes,” observes Seth Godin in his book the Dip, and, he assures readers, quitters do win. But quitting doesn’t mean giving up and abandoning your long-term strategy, only quitting the tactics that aren’t working. In fact, Godin admits, most people do quit. Problem is, he observes, they don’t quit successfully […]

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Blogging Pointers From a Sales Training Star

“The introduction and body of your presentation might be in good shape, but don’t forget about your closing remarks,” famed sales trainer Brian Tracy cautions. “Often, your audience will remember your final words the longest.” Back when I was an investment sales professional, Brian Tracy’s tapes kept me on the right track whenever I felt […]

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In Blogging for Business, Answer the Question: “Compared to What?”

  Always “reading around” for background materials for this Say It For You blog, I learned two different startling statistics about the travel industry. First, at a recent networking meeting, I heard from presenter Gloria Thomas of Eight Streams Wealth that travel represents $9.25 trillion worth of business here in the U.S. Then from reading […]

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All I Want for the Holidays is Blogging

You can hardly refer to gift-giving as a modern custom. In primitive cavemen culture, the giving of gifts was fairly common, the Popcorn for the People website explains. During the Egyptian era, gifts were given to pharaohs; in Roman times people would present each other with good luck gifts. In the Medieval age, gifts were […]

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To Be Interesting, Think Broad

“Many people and most organizations narrowly define what’s relevant and interesting to their followers. They mistakenly assume that their followers want to read about only a narrow band of subjects,” Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzgerald point out in The Art of Social Media. As examples of how posts can be “broadened”, Kawasaki suggests that a […]

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