After I ran a morning seminar in Cape Town last week, one of the attendees wrote the following in an email: “Thank you for an inspiring talk on Tuesday morning. I now realise that what I have to offer has so much more…
You’ve asked for it, so here it is: I will be running the next full day workshop on Friday 26th October 2012 at the Pretoria Work-based Learning Centre – 2 minutes walk from the Hatfield Gautrain Station! Only R995 per person, and it…
I’m sure that every now and again you receive an email, SMS or note from a client complimenting you on the great work that you have done, or on the good service you have given them. You may even be sitting in a…
Yesterday evening, I attended an event with one of my favourite speakers – Dr Dumisani Magadlela. He is a highly respected South African expert in the area of Ubuntu Intelligence and has touched many lives with his wisdom. Dumi’s simplest definition of Ubuntu…
I have a beautiful quotation printed on my business cards by a very wise woman, Peggy Tabor Millin. I want to be able to see it every day because I want to remind myself CONSTANTLY that every person that I meet, every person…
I’m a HUGE fan of using online directories as part of your online Search Engine Optimisation strategy and actively encourage my clients to look for appropriate online directories to list in. There are a number of great reasons for this: You can include…
I was privileged to meet with a gorgeous, dynamic businesswoman yesterday. She is doing everything right in terms of marketing her brand, and putting an inordinate amount of effort into the marketing of her company. She is in high profile consumer media (where the rest of us…
If there is one basic rule of marketing that I have seen proven to work repeatedly it is the rule about defining your niche. This can consist of two things: defining WHAT you do, and defining WHO you do it with. I’ll use…
Just as we were winding down for the December holidays, I sent a proposal through to a potential new client. In the preliminary meetings that we had had, much stress had been placed on the fact that this was a make-or-break period for…
The following is an article that I contributed to in www.Destinyman.com online ezine. The original can be found at: http://www.destinyman.com/article/top-5-networking-tips-2011-09-27 Being at the top in business is not always about what you know, it’s about who you know. The importance of networking According…