How To Better Reach CEOs or CFOs

Aug122009

You don’t create a blog or a web site or participate in social networking or whatever and hope your clients will come – especially your CEOs or CFOs. Most consultants are making this mistake over and over and are still waiting for the phone to ring! You drive the value to your customers and prospects by creating amazing products and services, publishing great stuff, shamelessly promoting it, and leveraging every component of marketing gravity you can and guided by your...

Investment in Life Balance

Aug112009

BMW has just delivered my new transportation vehicle – the BMW 650i. It sure explains why they named it “The Ultimate Driving Machine.” The drive is fabulous, the computerized system is amazing and driving with the top down, music playing through the awesome sound system is a stupendous experience. Talk with you soon while I am probably blogging and tweeting from the road. Life is good.

How Secure Is Your Site? A horror Story.

Aug42009

Last Thursday I received an urgent email and a voice mail from a consultant and speaker, who is also a colleague of mine whose identity I will keep anonymous who is not my client and is not hosted on our server. She reported to me that her web site was infected (see slide below) which presents a serious risk to all visitors arriving to her site. Upon further investigation, not only did we find out that her own site contains...

How to Become Successful

Aug22009

How does one become successful and what does it have to do with blogging and online surfing? Well, let me share this brief story with you. I’ve been monitoring a bit of the online chatter on some of the social networking sites for an article I am working on. Although I find the bulk majority of posts to be utterly ridiculous, boring and a complete waste of time, the one that caught my attention the other day was from an...

Ideas for Writing

Aug22009

Many writers I meet (self included) share with me that they often look for ideas for writing and especially when faced with writer’s block. Recently, I published this article: I think I’ll invent something new – What are the best ways of developing new ideas? where I explored the best ways and places to generate creative and innovative ideas. It also occurred to me that one of the best sources for generating new ideas is actually during my conversations with...

Chad Barr Interviews Patricia Fripp

Jul292009

Listen to this great podcast where Chad interviews award-winning speaker, executive speech coach, sales trainer and author, Miss Patrica Fripp and listen to them discuss: How to use speaking to promote your business and market yourself as a speaker Effective web strategies and how Fripp leverages the Internet to grow her business Her famous brother Robert Fripp And much more Click below for podcast to start © Chad Barr 2009. All rights reserved.

Testing Errors From the Best of Us

Jul272009

In an article I wrote some time ago, To infinity & beyond – Nine practical techniques to take your web site to the next level, I emphasized the importance of effectively testing your web site. This means that you need to test your site not only when you are ready to launch it for the first time but also when you make frequent changes to it. Let me show an example: You may already know that when typing a web...

New Site – www.Platinum-Performance.com

Jul252009

Since we are on the topic of new web sites, here is one I have yet to announce on my blog which is due its proper recognition. Angie Katselianos is the President of Platinum Performance International, located in Milan, Italy. She helps her clients establish the strategies and skills they need to succeed. Click on the image below to visit the Web site:

New Site – www.MorganCross.co.uk

Jul252009

Some time a go we were thrilled to launch the new web site for my good friend and colleague, Stuart Cross, of Morgan Cross Consulting, located in Newark, England. Stuart has been helping world-class companies find new ways to drive substantial, profitable growth. In just two years he has attracted market-leading clients including Alliance Boots, Avon and PricewaterhouseCoopers and his work as a consultant, speaker and coach has taken him to six countries across Europe as well as North America....

Technology, Miracle And All That Jazz Or Hora

Jul242009

On a recent vacation trip to Israel I realized prior to boarding the plane, and to my horror, that I forgot the power cord for my MacBookPro laptop. You all know how ornery I get if I don’t get my daily access to my Mac. I quickly used my iPhone to email my friend Dov Gordon in Jerusalem asking him to make the connections necessary to see where I may get such cord. Upon landing eleven hours later, fully rested...