When I was in High School, my friends wanted to be doctors and lawyers. I wanted to be a headhunter.
It was then that I bought the domain name, jobplacement.com. Since then I’ve sold it for enough to travel Europe for a month.
I just stumbled on a service called PickyDomains. They have an interesting pitch:
“Looking for a cool domain name, but can’t think of one yourself? Think all the good domains are already taken? You’ll love PickyDomains.Com
Here is how it works. You deposit $50 and give us your specifications. Our contributors start submitting their domain name suggestions. When you see that perfect domain, you just register it. If none of our suggestions worked for you – you just get your money back.”
This past week, I sat down with my friend David Leaver, founder of Opus Partners, a consulting firm that work with clients to strengthen their sales, HR on-boarding and business strategy.
I learn a great deal from him every time we meet. Ever the coach, David is the type of person who has so much passion and enthusiasm for what he does that his enthusiasm is contagious.
There are hundreds of motivational sales coaches and speakers out there, but David Leaver takes the next step and helps companies create a detailed and actionable sales process to follow up on leads and grow your business.
Back when I ran the Bank of America Youth Entrepreneur Program, David volunteered his time to share his experience with the thousands of young people attending its annual expo.
If your sales team needs a Red Bull– give David Leaver a call.
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us - the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.” Joseph Campbell
Presentation Zen has a fabulous post on speeches and powerpoint.
Many meetings are killed with death by powerpoint. and Garr hits it right on the head when he writes:
In the case of many leadership speeches, for example, we want to see the man (or woman) and be informed and inspired by their words and perhaps even moved by their presence. Images on a screen? Perhaps. But in many of the great speeches of our time the images are painted with the speaker’s words. Bullet point slides? You’ve got to be kidding. To illustrate the point of just how absurd bullets can sometimes be, imagine how much “different” (i.e., totally ineffective) it would have been if you listened to Obama’s now famous “Yes We Can” speech against a backdrop of really bad PowerPoint slides. If bad slides can take some of the impact off even this kind of speech, imagine what wordy slides could do to your ability to connect with an audience.
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