Whatever you do, repeatedly and consistently over time gets linked to YOU. This can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing. The bad part of this is that you might be in a situation, right now, where you are being misunderstood by . . . Your prospects Your customers Your teammates … continue reading »
In order to embrace today’s post you have to know what a “SNIOP” is! According to Zig Ziglar, a SNIOP is a person who is Subject to the Negative Influence of Other People! Things like . . . Letting others rain on your parade or Steal your joy or Gun down your ideas and the … continue reading »
Back in 2010 I set a goal to start utilizing video in my “Castain 2.0” branding strategy and guess what? I completely wussed out! I put it off, blew it off and always had really good reasons for not getting to it. Bottom line . . . I was scared folks! I was scared of … continue reading »
You were just presented with a brand spankin new week . . . Now what? Will it be the same old, same old? Same old stuff . . . different day? Or will you take charge and consider changing things up a bit? In this week’s podcast, I’ll offer several tips to help you . … continue reading »
Of all the places for us to get a lesson . . . Our remote? Yep and I thought I’d change things up and offer you a valuable lesson via a quick, 2 minute video I shot . . . especially for you. Well sort of, especially for you and anyone who actually takes the … continue reading »
One of our Linkedin Group members posed an interesting question today. He was knee deep in an outbound call when a prospect randomly asked him a ridiculous question (that had nothing to do with what they were talking about) and then hung up on him before he could answer. It reminds me of one of my … continue reading »
Don’t do this: Don’t automatically respond with “how much higher?” or “where do we need to be on this?” Doing so relinquishes control, put’s you on the defensive, diminishes the value of your widget and as a bonus, you sound like everyone else! Put it into a context: Instead of defending your position, have the … continue reading »
Take a look on your social network of choice and you will see an endless sea of “stuff”. Most of it is just that . . . “stuff”. Meanwhile, we try to do our best to keep our network updated via our status updates and guess what . . . We fail to stand out! … continue reading »
I might have caught you red freakin handed . . . Knee deep in doing what you’ve always done and perhaps being the creature of habit we all default to. STOP! Do something different to move yourself closer to your goals! Try something different! Challenge your default routine! Be willing to BE DIFFERENT and create … continue reading »
There was a time when I didn’t believe in using headsets and in retrospect it was an “ego” thing. When I launched my business last year, I decided to lose the ego and suite up with proper phone gear. There are 3 reasons why I enjoy using a headset, let’s get the obvious one out of … continue reading »
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