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Exposing "Free" Offers in Business

Of course they're going to try to sell you something! I'm going off to a Publishing seminar downtown Toronto, in a few hours and I'm curious to see what I can glean from it. As a newly-published Children's book author , I'm hoping to find subscribers for my list to show off my snazzy audiobook digital  flyer  to! Well, getting some good, honest  reviews  for my new puppy cartoon Prissy Little Chloe: Time of the Year, would be sweet of course! Networking is one thing. A lot of these "free" seminars that happen at hotels, aren't free. The hotel has to pay the speakers, really mostly out of the attendees pockets - as a lot of them decide to stay for the duration of the conference. Brilliant. I won't be one. Not because I don't love a weekend getaway, but because hotels for me, are a last resort - unless, I'm staying you know, at a resort. I can sleep better in those beds, anyway. With any sort of training, especially a pa...

Setting Goals - Ask Yourself These Few Questions

“All progress depends on the unreasonable man[/woman]." (Tweet me) - George Bernard Shaw  Alright I don't have my tweetable quotes links up and running yet, must be because I don't have a Twitter account, (yet.) So, you're going to have to old-fashioned copy and paste for now! Going back to the quote, "unreasonable" doesn't mean criminal or crazy, just not acquiescent - don't blindly follow anyone or anything, question until you fully understand. Then bend the rules a bit! That's what creativity is. Here's an example (and actually one of my favorite marketing campaigns) "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them - because they change...