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It’s Time To Give Back

by Steve Holt March 23, 2013
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I have been humbled.  There have been numerous times in the past several weeks that I have been taken down a notch when presented with the good works that others are doing.  My father calls it ‘gettin too big for your britches’.  I call it laziness and arrogance.  Just when I think I am doing [...]

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How Not To Screw Up At Work

by Steve Holt March 12, 2013
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Looking back over the jobs that I have had ever since I started working, I can see some valuable lessons learned. I learned some things from some very wise people, and I learned alot of things the hard way, because I was hard-headed. So I was asked the other day by some college students what [...]

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Small Talk: The New Sales Pitch

by Steve Holt February 21, 2013
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Selling is not easy. Every successful salesman has their own formula, their own secret. And certain things work for some, and not for others. I have a good friend named Michael Angelo Caruso who is an established expert on selling, and he has trained thousands of people over the years on the art of selling. [...]

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5 Reasons They Aren’t Liking Your Facebook Page

by Steve Holt February 4, 2013
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You may have noticed over the past couple of months that in addition to the number of likes on your page growing at a slower pace than before, the number of people commenting, liking, and sharing your Facebook page content has gone down.  It’s happened to me.  It’s happened to everyone.  These are strategic decisions [...]

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Surprise them

by Steve Holt January 14, 2013
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One of my favorite snacks as a kid was Cracker Jacks. The reason was simple…. there was a prize inside. Same deal with cereal boxes. My brother and I would pick the ones that had a prize inside because, well, we just couldn’t get enough of secret decoder rings and fake tattoo stickers. Toys in [...]

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The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It

by Steve Holt December 3, 2012
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A few months ago I was helping one of my clients with their marketing outreach.  We talked a great deal about their social media outreach and where it fit in their overall marketing plan.  We had spent a great deal of time over the past year revamping and updating their look on all their social [...]

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Let Them See Your Passion

by Steve Holt November 14, 2012
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I recently attended a choir concert of one of my kids. It was a pretty big affair, with a choir of about 200, and the choir conductor was an African American gentleman in black tie and tails who appeared to be soft-spoken and genteel. Until the music started. The first song out of the gate [...]

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18 Inches

by Steve Holt June 3, 2012
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My head told me one thing, and my heart told me another. It was that pivotal moment when you have to decide who will win… your head or your heart. We have all been there, and you can probably chime in with examples from both your personal life and your business. And I’ve made the [...]

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The Top 10 Things I Learned/Found In 2011

by Steve Holt January 7, 2012
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Seems like everyone is doing articles about what to look forward to in 2012, including me, so I decided to talk for just a few minutes about the best things I learned/found in 2011. I hope that you can find some goodies in this list that you didn’t know about, so that you can (of [...]

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Once Upon A Time…

by Steve Holt January 1, 2012
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Once upon a time there was a small business owner named Bob who was busy. So busy in fact, that he struggled to find time to do all the things that he needed to do. Each morning when the sun shown through his window and awakened his eyes he struggled to get out of bed [...]

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Sometimes You Just Have To Do Something Different

by Steve Holt December 9, 2011
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Here’s a bit of trivia for you Fab-Four fans. Who was the first non-Beatles musician to play on a Beatles’ record? The story is pretty amazing, and I wanted to share it with you. Several years ago George Harrison shared a story about the events surrounding the writing of his signature song, While My Guitar [...]

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