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What does writing a book tell clients, prospects, and potential employers about you?

Writing a book remains the best way to drive business and build your personal brand, establishing you as an expert in your field. But why? Here are a 7 major conclusions about you that your clients, co-workers, customers, prospects, and potential employers are likely to draw from your book: You know your topic. A published [...]

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2010 06 17 rogerparker Comments (0)

Reflections: What Makes an Expert Different?

Individuals and subject area experts interested in establishing thought leadership through a published book might enjoy checking out Conor Neills’ recent blog post, What Makes an Expert Different? This is one of the most concise and useful discussions of the elements of expert status I’ve ever seen. Conor Neills is professor at IESE Business School [...]

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2010 04 09 rogerparker Marketing Comments (0)

Just because you get paid the big bucks, doesn’t mean you can’t ask for help…

4 point discussed in this post: 1) Spend a couple hours getting to know your contacts better, 2) Get help with your speeches, 3) Be able to say that you lived a life that was full and engaged, 4) Make sure you be a parent, write a book and plant a tree…

2009 02 28 Happy About Comments (1)

The Three Rules of Business

Practice these rules and life will be made that much simpler…

2008 12 20 Happy About Comments (0)

TiEcon, the best networking event of the year

The Indus Entrepreneur organization (TiE), throws an annual event with 3,600 participants. The best part about the event are the CEOs that only make it out to network once a year. Of the 60 business cards I gathered over a day and a half, 5 were from CEOs of companies in the $10-20m range where [...]

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2008 05 20 Happy About Comments (0)

Take the time to mentor

Today was the first day of two when I went into a middle school classroom to share some lessons about life. What a great way to impress our youth (I hope) and a great way to reinforce the values I want to live by myself. The program is called “Choices” and there’s prepared content that [...]

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2008 05 07 Happy About Comments (0)