I had the pleasure of meeting Jacky Wright, Vice President of IT Strategic Services with Microsoft this past weekend at the Women In Business Summit, hosted at the Travelers Claim University in Windsor, CT. The conference’s theme was Lead with Confidence, and Jacky’s message certainly put the audience in the right frame of mind to [read more]
I’m in the process of consolidating all five of my current web sites into one new master site under the URL www.AmericasMarketingMotivator.com This massive undertaking has forced me to re-examine my content and my imagery. Rather than just put all the old stuff on the new site (you know, the sin of copy/paste), I hired [read more]
This past weekend I felt like a superhero! I had the opportunity to have dinner with a broadcasting celebrity from my hometown, Valerie Coleman Morris. Valerie is a former correspondent with CNN, reporter with KRON-TV, and longtime anchor for KGO-TV in San Francisco. If that wasn’t enough, both Valerie and I were keynote speakers at [read more]
Have you ever been horrified to discover an obvious typo on your resume, proposal or blog? Perhaps you’ve sent written messages from your smartphone that made you look dumb because your fat fingers pressed the wrong keys and formed a bizarre string of letters. In turn, those letters took on a whole new meaning that [read more]
Many years ago, I read a business book (the exact title I cannot remember) from Tom Peters, the business management guru and co-author of In Search of Excellence (first published in 1982). The golden nugget from that book that stuck with me all these years is that you need to add something significant to your [read more]
I just received to an invitation to a holiday party at the home of one of my husband’s clients. I am also friendly with the hosts, so I know that I will feel right at home at this event. Still, I must be mindful of my behavior at this social event because I am not [read more]
I’ve had two recent experiences that motivated me to share my thoughts with you on the importance of seating in networking and in business. You may know this already, but bear with me as I refresh you on the strategy of physical positioning. It is important that you are both seen and heard at networking [read more]
“What makes you unique makes you successful,” says William Arruda, the personal branding guru. I agree with him, and so does my professional colleague Loretta Peters of Competitive Edge Branding. I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a workshop with Loretta last week at the JETS/Schmoozers job group in West Hartford, CT. Our topic was Building [read more]
Receiving negative criticism can become a significant emotional event if you don’t learn how to cope with it. I have a few criticism scars that remain with me years after the injury to my ego. I can laugh about (some of) them now. It’s interesting to reflect on how my response to them at the [read more]
