Marty’s Musings
Blogging patience is a virtue
Here's something I want to address before I get into anything else: Building your blog will take patience and steady work. I've seen far too many business people start a blog and a couple of weeks later, decide to scrap it because "it doesn't seem to be working."...
Blogging
A blog is truly an amazing tool to help you build your business, but one of the keys to blogging success is to make it look like you're NOT building your business. You can have a blog that lists just your specials and has all kinds of product pitches and it may help...
A good and proper sign off
Every email you send should have a signature in it. • Personal emails. • Business emails. • Marketing emails you send through your autoresponder service.* And no, I'm not talking about "signing" your name. The good folks over at Webopedia tell us that an e-mail...
September is for Self-Improvement
My first exposure to the self-improvement world was way back (waaaay back) when I graduated from high school and was given the “I Dare You Award.” The award came with a book of self-improvement advice. I still have that book. If I had really taken everything to heart...
September is Self-Improvement Month
My first exposure to the self-improvement world was way back (waaaay back) when I graduated from high school and was given the “I Dare You Award.” The award came with a book of self-improvement advice. I still have that book. If I had really taken everything to heart...
The Big Gmail Freakout
Right now my inbox is flooded with emails from marketing folks I follow who are all in near hysteria over the new Tabbed Gmail Inbox Interface. (I bet your inbox is full, too.) Good grief! You’d think the world was coming to an end. Or at the least, the email...
Clicking!
Most people I know really hate going to networking events. And I must admit, I've had some bizzaro networking experiences at times myself. For instance.... Not long ago I was at a networking mixer and was getting a glass of wine. (I just love events where there's...
Put page numbers on your docs
So, once again, I send something to my printer only to come back into the office to find dozens of pages all over the floor. Grrrr! But double-Grrrrr! when I find that there are no page numbers on this document that I just printed! It was somebody's irresistible free...
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
In a word: Everything. Love is the secret ingredient to my business. And I’ve been carrying on a love affair with my clients for years! And finally. FINALLY. This message of “love your clients and they’ll love you back” is finally taking hold. At first, I didn’t pay...
What are you reading right now?
There never seems to be enough time to read all the good stuff that I want to, and too often, I have two or three (or more, Yikes!) books going at one time. I read a lot of stuff that’s inspirational and good for me, and in my off hours, I love a good trashy novel. Or...