Sometimes I stumble across an interesting article that works for Vistage and TEC Chairs, Speakers, Trusted Advisers, and Members. This might be one of those articles. Is Blogging for everyone? Could your business, consulting, speaking, services, and products benefit from launching a blog? This a little bit of a “devil’s advocate” post. Everyone is jumping [...]
Tag Archive for ‘business blogging’ 
Is Fear Holding You Back From Business Blogging?
Have you launched a corporate blog yet? What’s holding you back? We have a saying in our basketball program based on one of the most popular quotes ever issued by a coach: “You’ll miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” How many shots (opportunities) are you missing because you’re afraid to shoot (start blogging)? [...]
Is the Issue of Delayed Gratification Important in Success vs. Failure?
Vistage Chair Mark Taylor, put forth the interesting idea that perhaps success or failure is determined by delayed gratification. Here are a few of the comments Mark made in his blog post: In this six minute TED talk, Joachim de Posada, author of Don’t Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in [...]
Can Social Media Help You Improve Relationship Marketing?
Patti Stafford writing on the Blogging Tips website talked about how social media can improve relationship marketing. However, she made an important observation that you have to connect personally with your audience. Sending “form” emails and broadcasting where you had lunch on Twitter is NOT relationship marketing. Social Media can provide a great platform to [...]
Has Selling Become Too Complex With New Technology?
The idea that selling has become very complex is an issue that has preyed on my grey matter for the last few years. Are we buried in a convolution of minutia? Has selling become more complex or is it just the environment?
How Do You Stand Out in a Crowded Field?
How can you stand out in a crowded sea of other leadership or experts in your field? How can you establish your brand as unique? How do you differentiate yourself to the point where CEOs and executives look forward to your postings since they are so different from all the other generic stuff that everyone [...]
What are those little buttons at the bottom of each Post?
At the bottom of each blog post are a series of little icons that enable you to share various blog posts that you’ve found particularly useful. Brad, our expert guest bloggers, and I all appreciate your sharing our content with other folks in the Vistage Community when you read something you thought worthy of sharing. [...]
Vistage vs. TEC Language
How should we refer to the worldwide community of Chairs, Members, Speakers, Staff, and Trusted Advisors? I recognize that many of the readers of our blogs, members of our LinkedIn Discussion Groups, and followers on Facebook and Twitter are from the worldwide community, ranging from Hong Kong to Vancouver. In most of the US, we [...]
Are You A Vistage Blogger
Calling all Vistage Bloggers Are you a Vistage Blogger that would like to be featured in our Vistage Leadership Community Portal. We have assembled a listing of all the known Vistage Bloggers (Chairs, Members, Speakers, and Trusted Advisors). We’ve tried our best through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to identify all those in the Vistage Community [...]
Welcome to the Vistage Leadership Community Blog for Best Practices
Welcome to the Vistage Leadership Community Portal Welcome to our first blog post for the Vistage Leadership Community Blog on how to LEVERAGE the success of your people to build an exceptional organization. We’ll explore subjects including leadership, management, hiring and retaining top talent, sales management, culture and employee satisfaction/engagement. In addition, we’ll also take [...]
