Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2009

What matters in 2010? Seth Godin , marketing guru and thought leader, did a cool project where he brought together more than seventy “big thinkers&# to write the ebook What Matters Now.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I decided that rather than use an off the shelf presentation that I’d crowdsource the topic for my video from comments submitted via the blog. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It's not – Unless the request infringes upon our values, moral or ethical standards using no as a response is just intellectually lazy, avoidance or ego centric – imho [link] mikemyatt So Dan, tell me how you really feel All kidding aside, you and I are definitely on the same page here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As for you Sir, your thoughts more closely resemble a blog post than a comment…brilliant. Cheers, William [link] mikemyatt Hi William: I agree with your comment about Mark. He is a truly gifted leader and thinker. Thanks for taking the time to expand upon the thoughts expressed above. Your insights are spot-on.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 17, 2010

This year of 2010 has been a revelation to me as to the ins and outs of Social Media. I take it as a marketing given that a business should be utilizing internet Social Media opportunities if – and this is a big IF – that business has a desire to be known farther afield than its own geographical neighborhood. Not really.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In today’s blog post I’ll attempt to paint the portrait of the perfect leader… So, what traits would my perfect leader possess?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Offer your services for website design , IT Consulting , or Internet Marketing. Market your service to small businesses, and people with home offices. Tap into social media marketing or business networks to attract customers to your Web site. Everybody uses a computer, but few know much about it.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

It is a tremendous honor to be named to this list with other great blogs such as Seth’s Blog , Management Excellence , The Best Horse Sense (a personal favorite since I grew up on a ranch), Great Leadership , the Tom Peters Weblog and many other great leadership blogs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. How sad is this?

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With a lifetime of experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for sensing markets, synthesizing ideas and turning them into reality. What market problems are you discovering or need to understand? Think about it.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 19, 2010

See also: Seth’s Blog, where Seth writes daily on marketing, business, and other issues — sethgodin.typepad.com/? In this entertaining talk — Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them. Establish A Contract With Your Team. Unported License.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 15, 2010

This post was edited from a previous post by Chris Hugh on his blog. To visit their Facebook Group, click here. It’s a closed group, but admittance is immediate, so you can begin playing immediately. Chris is a Silicon Valley lawyer, author, crafter and amateur photographer. Visit Chris here. Thank you Chris! Unported License.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Learning , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | learn , opportunity , value , Mark Sanborn , design « Five championship strategies Book Review: Here Comes Everybody » Like Be the first to like this post. Thank you for commenting.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education, where recently she’s been researching different social work degree programs and blogging about student life. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Now this isn’t a Rich Gee blog post until I pose a tough questions to my readers: “What’s wrong with your life?&# P.S. As this year comes to a close, I want to say thank you so much for making my blog and my business an unbelievable success in 2010. It will probably change your life. Unported License.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2010

Trust is key to understanding your customers and your market. This focus has come primarily from reading The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. He discusses the concept of building a trust account, which is similar to a bank account. . To effectively work with development, sales and other teams in your organization you must gain their trust.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

According to Robin Sharma , the author of The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life , anyone can be a leader. According to Robin Sharma , the author of The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life , anyone can be a leader.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Client #1: Bored/Dying at current job – helped them move to running a full-time website/blog on a hot and growing area! Have you worked with clients in slumps? Absolutely! Making big bucks now. Establish A Contract With Your Team. When Is It Right To Question Authority At Work? Unported License.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

If my final score is who I want to be — a man or woman of integrity, of honesty, of virtue, of hard work, of ethics — then I can sustain setbacks and difficulties that come. This is the career record of Larry Gelwix, coach of the Highland High rugby team (Salt Lake City) for more than three decades.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit. A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 6, 2010

at 7:15 AM Most people forget that Customer Service is Marketing. I blog about the good and the bad customer service I get. Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Allen Edmonds , Clients , Customer Service , Customers , Satisfaction , Service { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Tim Trent 12.06.10 Universally that is phone companies!

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 10, 2010

They expect marketers to stop pitching things and start helping them understand how they can get what they need. Please see Product Marketing for Start-ups on the Product Management Pulse. They expect product managers to show them how their products can solve problems and help them succeed.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Anyway, your excellent blog article has given me much to think about, for I am in the midst of relocating my business. What if, instead, he had take his violin to the metro on a Friday evening or on a Saturday afternoon, when people were less hurried? No doubt, he would have had a much better reception. Establish A Contract With Your Team.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Many bloggers have featured the Lead on Purpose blog on their sites over the past three years; for this I am truly grateful. They featured Lead on Purpose among 20 blogs business management students will love. Online Marketing Degrees : Provides information to people who are seeking a college degree in Marketing.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

To enter for a chance to win (United States and Canada residents only): How to enter: 1) Become a member of FreeThrive.com [link] by December 17, 2010 2) Follow @monicadear and @freethrive on Twitter and let us know your username at FreeThrive.com That’s it! Contest ends at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on December 17, 2010.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

at 7:48 AM You have highlighted the point I make whenever I blog about Customer Service. Customer Service is a part of marketing. The closest I came was Prime Computer UK where, and only for expediency, Marketing was once a part of Customer Service. So few organisations have even considered this. Unported License.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Integrity is a “steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.&# It means you are true to your word in all you do and people can trust you because you do what you say. The word integrity has deep meaning and is often intermingled with words like honesty and truthfulness.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 8, 2010

Markets change quickly. You read blogs and follow thought-leaders on Twitter; you watch what they are talking about learn as much as you can. Great leaders are learners. They read voraciously. They write and teach what they learn. Learning is as much a part of their life as eating. . You have to be a learner.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

2 Responses davidburkus , on October 20, 2010 at 12:50 pm said: I’ve always thought we ought measure leaders by this: did they get to the goal or not? Reply Michael Ray Hopkin , on November 8, 2010 at 9:29 pm said: David, thanks for your comment. A bit binary I know, but I like its simplicity.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 5, 2011

And I write my daily blog (as I am doing right now). But you can’t argue that they have a compelling model that scared market leaders like McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts to mimic a lot of their offerings. Their staff is always polite, engaging, and sometimes even fun to interact with. What does this mean to you?

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I can’t say this enough (and I do frequently on this blog) — get out frequently and meet other colleagues to discuss business and marketplace issues. Who has the mojo in the company. Who doesn’t. I kept a file (at home) of what projects, people, and departments were doing. Don’t Partake In Gossip. Unported License.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 20, 2010

One the most effective ways to create value for your company is to become an expert at market sensing. To the extent you guide your company to create and sell the right products and services for your market, you will become the hero of your organization. What significance do you bring to the table?

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 4, 2010

This first Leadership Development Carnival in 2010 provides links to 50 posts — what Dan calls “the Best of 2009.&# The links include posts on topics such as building better leaders, measuring employee engagement and building corporate trust.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers need to provide direction for how a product should be built, and through your understanding of the market, give them assurance they are building the right product. Marketing: When most people hear the word ‘marketing,’ the duties of PR and marcom are how they usually interpret it.

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