How to Leverage an Honorary and Voluntary Position

Jan242014

Quite a few of my clients and colleagues accept honorary and voluntary positions with various organizations and associations. Here is how to best leverage such positions: Focus on delivering genuine value for the association and its members. Contribute to their newsletter each time it’s sent out and provide them with helpful improvement ideas. Create and facilitate breakfast meetings and invite experts to present. Launch a series of webinars or tele-seminars with guest experts. Create relationships with strategic members. Contact members...

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 55 What’s Your Story? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 55

Jan222014

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: I grew up in Israel and became an entrepreneur at the age of 12. My passion for playing guitar and music was strong even at that young age. Growing up listening to and studying classical rock and...

New Web Presence – www.CasemoreAndCo.com

Jan222014

I am excited to announce the launch of the new web presence we have created for Shawn Casemore, President & Founder of Casemore & Co. Incorporated. Together (my amazing team and I) with Shawn we have worked diligently to create his strategy, this wow looking site, and the outstanding content you will discover throughout the site. Check it out: Here is what Shawn had to say about us: © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.

Attracting Consumer and Corporate Buyers Through Your Web Presence

Jan212014

Does your web presence represent a major buying potential for consumer and corporate buyers and impact your revenues? Absolutely. Just look at the many global successful thought leaders and the ways they effectively leverage their web presence to grow their business. I have suggested for several years that most corporations are loaded with consumers inside the organization. Many can easily target these consumers through their web offerings. I could easily suggest that everything we do impacts and affects our credibility...

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 54 What Do You Do? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 54

Jan152014

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: If I were to ask you: “what do you do?” how would you answer the question? If you answer this quickly, effectively and with great confidence, you may wish to skip reading the rest of this post....

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 53 Falling In Love Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 53

Jan82014

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: I’ve been saying for years that when it comes to my business the lines of demarcation between work and pleasure are quite blurry. I love my work because it is fun and enjoyable and doesn’t seem like...

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 52 Happy New Year Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 52

Jan12014

This week’s reflection point: It was one year ago that I launched this weekly newsletter. 52 times I have written my stories and ideas about strategies for life and business success. If each one of you only took one key idea from any of my newsletters, you have made a significant step towards increased success this past year. Consequently, if you start making small changes to help your clients and do so consistently over time, like water cutting stone, the...

Time to Reflect

Dec312013

I like this time a year when one year comes to a close and the other is about the begin. It’s as the world goes into slow-motion, people (most) are friendlier and there is a great sense of renewal. One of my favorite activities is that of reflection where I get to review the previous year and take note of what has worked well and what has not. However, I’ve come to realize that yearly reflections for just the sake...

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 51 Joy To The World Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 51

Dec252013

This week’s reflection point: Red is the color of the season. I saw it in the red overheated faces of costumed Santas greeting shoppers in Orlando last week. I see it here, back home, in the red faced Santas shivering in the frigid Cleveland temperatures. In thousands of locations across the nation are the countless volunteers from the Salvation Army ringing their bells with beaming faces beckoning us to help fill their dangling red buckets to help those less fortunate...

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 50 The New Roads To You! Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 50

Dec182013

This week’s reflection point: A common question I am asked all the time is how to increase the traffic to the site. Here are my recommendations: Publish great content regularly and in a variety of formats. The longer you do this (longevity) the better exposure your site and content would have. Blog often on fresh and relevant topics that are of help to your clients. When people find your content valuable that will share with others which will cause your...