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Inception 4D: Bringing Ideas to Life

Great writers can sum profound realities in a few words... "Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo "If you can conceive it, then you can achieve it..." - Napoleon Hill But say essentially the same ideas in 4 dimensions: 1 text, 2 sound, 3 visual and 4 a moving, memorable storyline, it becomes really powerful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy09m76bvBgThe author/designer of this video claims it took him 50 hours to create this 1 min kinetic typograhy but I say it was worth it... There is

Dropbox and Slideshark

Gone are the days of sharing files thru email, USB sticks or yahoogroups.      Have our marketing files when we need it. Anywhere! Anytime!Instead of drag and drop. Instead of cut and paste. Dropbox and Slideshark!I want to share 25 marketing files with you. Let’s try the modern way-@Dropbox. Sign up for free! http://db.tt/83zruUphCreate a dropbox account. Download the program. Install. Then get your reward of 25 marketing files (there will be a lag time though as I need to add you to the shared folder.)Once you have a dropbox

How To Be Happy @ Work and @ Home

"How To Be Happy At Work and At Home" is based on this article http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/how-to-be-happy-at-work.html Then, the ideas were re-engineered and shared with our Sales Team: How To Be Happy At Work and At Home View more PowerPoint from Remigio Joseph DeUngria But these ideas work for everyone, everytime!

In Search Of Tipping Points for 2012

Earlier today, I was listening to Malcolm Gladwell's audiobook, Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference. Coming smack right into the new year, I couldn;t help but try to personalize what tipping points can be in my life for 2012 and beyond.For a tennis match, this could be the pivotal single point during 3 gruelling hours of playing where the ball just grazes the line, whereas half an inch more it would have been out. Remember Novak Djokovic's go-for-broke-I-don't-care-if-lose forehand stroke at match point vs. Roger Federer in the

Play by the Score

A famous football coach once said, “In my 20 years of coaching, I never lost a single game- I just ran out of time.” (If we had more time, we’d be able to catch up, or the opposing team would get tired or commit mistakes; Nevertheless, it does not count since the rules say how much time we have in the game.) More often than not, time is a rule that everyone needs to contend with in the many games of life. But time is not the only rule. Each game

Reinvention: Questions and Answers

While driving 2 hours to work and listening to the audio CD, “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life, the Best of Your Life” by Brian Tracy, two anecdotes stood out: These 3 Predictions by Harvard University in 1952 remain true till this day:1. In any industry, more changes will happen in the next year than ever before.2. In any industry, more competition will happen than ever before3. For any industry, more opportunities will come out this year but these will be different from that of last year. Albert Einstein, lecturing

Positive Contamination Marketing of Events

Every single event or experience can " positively contaminate" thousands of others with little effort and with long lasting effect. Here are 4 examples of "event" shouts that remain long after the events are over. Now, that's efficient marketing!  The first 2 liinks were the samples I showed to the students to use as benchmark while the last 2 were the result of students trumping their teacher.Made by the teacher as a sample for the students http://agsbmarketing.web.officelive.com/MarketingForum.aspx/ http://www.contaminationmarketing.com/ Made by students outdoing their teacherhttp://boost2010.webs.com/ http://asmph2010media.wordpress.com/video-gallery/ It's a real treat

21 Secrets of Effective Communications

Steve Jobs has been unofficially proclaimed by many business experts as 1 of the best presentors in this tech-savy age. In the video, here is what I got as tips for my next board presentation...1. Set the theme2. Outline3. Demonstrate enthusiasm4. Wow your audience5. Sell an experience6. Make numbers meaningful; use analogies7. Paint a picture; Make it visual8. Give a show9. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse! In 2011, the value of Steve Jobs' communication effectiveness was valued at $6 billion which pushed Apple as the world's most valuable