Yesterday was Veteran’s Day. One of those holidays that most people don’t celebrate, it just means the bank and Post Office are closed. And that is so wrong, to me. As far as I’m concerned, Veteran’s Day is one of the most important days of the year. Politicians are fond…
Continue Reading....Author: Tripp Braden
Tripp Braden partners with entrepreneurs and senior executives on their high engagement C-Suite communication and content marketing strategies.
He believes client education is the best way of building trust and long term sustainable growth.
His consulting practice focuses on second stage entrepreneurs, technology organizations, and senior level business executives. Tripp partners with clients to develop high impact C-Suite communication and account based marketing strategies.
If you’re interested in learning more, contact Tripp at tbraden@marketleadership.net or send him an invite on LinkedIn. You can find Tripp's business growth blog at Market Leadership Journal.
The Qualities of Skillful Leadership
by Jim Rohn If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call…
Continue Reading....Sales Has a New Beginning-Demand Generation 2.0
by Axel Schultze So here is an interesting story of a security products company that is using social media – no, not in marketing – but in sales. Sales teams have always been the key connector to the customer base. But in the last few years sales got in trouble…
Continue Reading....Keeping a Journal- One of the Three Treasures to Leave Behind
by Jim Rohn (excerpts from “How to Keep a Journal” audio series by Jim Rohn) If you’re serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don’t trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across…
Continue Reading....If Selling, Listen to the Symptoms
by Ron White ‘Doc…I got this cough.’ ‘Is it a light cough?’ ‘No Doc it is a deep hacking cough like this….KUUH… KUUH’ ‘Okay, anything else?’ ‘Yeah, I got the shivers and this red bumpy rash.’ ‘Oh, well you have got the Jungle hemoglobin neuro-cardio virus. Take these pills for…
Continue Reading....I Will Miss Her Smile
My mother unexpectedly passed away this week, on the eve of her 79th birthday. My friends and associates who knew her know she battled much of her life with chronic depression and borderline personality disorder. For those who have family members or friends that fight these illnesses you understand how…
Continue Reading....Is Everyone in Your Business Market Driven?
I’m sure you get calls every day from people you don’t know about things you don’t need. What happens when a company invests their cash into marketing and advertising programs, but then doesn’t tell everyone on the team about the new programs? In the past, I ran marketing for a…
Continue Reading....If You’re Not Screwing Up, You’re Fired.
Most people in their jobs or client relationships worry about “getting fired” for making mistakes. Indeed, we all make them—and as Alan Mooney, a close friend and work colleague likes to put it: if we aren’t making mistakes, then something is wrong. In fact, he sums this policy up in…
Continue Reading....Why the Right Words Matter
As I was looking through my bookshelves for a particular reference, I came across my very first sales training book, How to Master the Art of Selling, by Tom Hopkins. I pulled it off the shelf and starting thumbing through it. I had gone to see Tom Hopkins speak and…
Continue Reading....I’m Not an Actor, but I play one on TV
Continuing on the topic of “state”—Are you in control of your state, or is your state in control of you? Successful people are masters of their states—and thus their resourcefulness at virtually any point in time. It is largely the cumulative condition of your thoughts and your physiology; your mind…
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