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- Emails That Paid Off – with Metaphors (0)
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- From Manager to Leader – with a Metaphor (0)
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- Agree With This Metaphor? (0)
- How Successful Presenters Really Think (0)
- Baseball: Life’s Best Metaphor (0)
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- Olympic Hopeful with Strong Metaphor for Winning (0)
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- Profit by Praising–with Metaphors! (1)
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- Provocative vs. Pushy (0)
- Turn Cement to Jelly! (0)
- Which of These Matches Your Metaphor for Love? (0)
- Show Them Your “Love” (0)
- Alliteration Sells (0)
- Good Times/Bad Times…Metaphors for ALL Times (0)
- Stay Ahead of the Curve: Best New Sales Resources for 2021 (0)
- (Metaphorical) Food for Thought (0)
- Save a Life, Save a Sale – Same Smart Strategy (0)
- Simple Metaphors for High Stakes Situations (0)
- 11 Creative Ways to Price During Covid (0)
- Sales “Treat” for Halloween (0)
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- “Frame” How Clients See, Think, & Act (0)
- Three Sales Lessons from Harris-Spence Debate (0)
- Notorious RBG: Make What You Say Pay! (0)
- From Employee to Entrepreneur – with Metaphors (0)
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- Networking Tip in a Time of Pandemic (0)
- Stories Sell in Politics — & in Business (0)
- What’s in a Name? Everything. (0)
- Best Discovery/Probing Question Ever (0)
- How to Add Impact to Numbers (0)
- 4 Steps to Your “Bottom-Line” Metaphor (0)
- New Source for Creating Engaging Presentations (0)
- How Not to “Speechify” (0)
- One Word Changed His Sales Results (0)
- 7 Tips for a Winning Webinar (0)
- Addenda to May Metaphor Minute (0)
- Choose Wisely, Metaphorically Speaking (0)
- Thinking Creatively to Save & Grow Your Business (0)
- Communicating with Metaphors in Critical Times (0)
- 5 Tips for Staying Top of Mind During Covid-19 (0)
- 7 Sites: Great Advice Working in Crazy Times (0)
- Follow Churchill, Lincoln, Reagan Strategy in Sales Crises (0)
- Virus, Markets, & Metaphors (0)
- What is Your Presentation “Umbrella?” (0)
- Does Your Marketing Work Like a Dog? (0)
- Can I Have Your Attention Please? (0)
- Still the Most Important Sales Skill (0)
- Have You Ever…? (0)
- Start the New Year Off Right (0)
- What’s Your Greeting Worth? (0)
- Tips for Tact–from a “Ghost” (0)
- Where Go Your Toes, So Go Your Eyes (0)
- How is a kiss at the end of a date like a close on a sales call? (0)
- Get Them at “Hello” (0)
- Words Matter – More Than Ever! (0)
- Halloween Sales Treat (0)
- When Clients Rush You with a Problem… (0)
- TearDown or Fixer-Upper? (0)
- Tip for Dealing with Price Pressure (0)
- Visual Aid or Visual Attack? (0)
- Deliver Tough Love Metaphorically (0)
- Why Don’t They Just Say “No?” (0)
- If It Looks Like A Duck…Is It? (0)
- A (Dangerously) Overlooked Discovery Question (0)
- Who’s Who in the (Sales) Zoo? (0)
- Set Your Trap, Metaphorically Speaking (0)
- A Picture is Worth… (0)
- Monologues are for Comedians – Not Presenters! (0)
- When is Closing a Close? Are You Sure? (0)
- Waffle Words Won’t Win Business (0)
- How One Memory Led to High Pay-off Metaphor (0)
- What Works at Wimbledon Works in Sales (0)
- Snappy Metaphor Best Line in Dem Debate (0)
- “You Don’t Have to Be James Bond” (0)
- Simon & Garfunkel Were Right (About Selling) (0)
- Easy Tip for Turning Presentations Into Conversations (0)
- Change Foe to Friend (0)
- No Empathy? No Sale! (0)
- Take a Tip from Picasso to Deal with Price Objections (0)
- What Would You Be on Time’s 100 Most Influential List? (0)
- A Metaphor That Keeps on Giving (0)
- 4 Tips to Avoid Presentation “Robo-Delivery” (0)
- Don’t Let Mental Trash Ruin Your Presentations (0)
- Three Key Discovery Questions (0)
- Remember the Priceless Factor (0)
- How to Handle (Dull) Company Mandated Presentations (0)
- Are You Smarter Than Jeff Bezos? (0)
- Words, Walls, Wins (0)
- Simple Way to Overcome Awkward Requests (0)
- When Curiosity Doesn’t “Kill the Cat” (0)
- Hooked! Metaphors & Social Media (0)
- Best New Biz Book for 2019 Success (0)
- A Simple Way to Stand Out (0)
- “Jumble” Your Sales (0)
- Model What You Sell (0)
- Lincoln, FDR, & You (0)
- Do You Speak Too Quickly? (0)
- What’s Your Story? (0)
- False Familiarity or Valid Value? (0)
- Agenda: Power Tool When Used Properly (0)
- What to Present When There is So Much to Tell (0)
- Do What Waiters Do & Close Business Faster (0)
- Symptom or Cause? (0)
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- “Like” is a Four Letter Word That Kills Presentations (0)
- Avoid Unintended Consequences in Presenting (0)
- Time for a Presentation Check Up? (0)
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- How Do You Rate on These 3 Scales? (0)
- Alliteration Allure (0)
- When a Gift Becomes a Gaffe (0)
- Handling Price Objections & NFL-Trump Controversy (0)
- What Does ___ Mean to Your Listeners? (0)
- Chump or Champion? (0)
- A Tale of Two Sales: Avoid Buyer’s Remorse (0)
- Megyn Kelly Failure = Lesson for Sales (0)
- When You Are in the “Hot Seat” (0)
- What To Do When You Are Losing Them! (0)
- Hold That Presentation! (0)
- Trump, Tom Selleck & You (0)
- “Gotcha” is Dumb Biz Strategy (0)
- What’s Really “New?” (0)
- Overcome Rigid Resistence (0)
- Stand & Command (0)
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- Words Matter: The Election (0)
- Why You Should Never “Present” (0)
- Avoid “Dead Blank Walls” Presenting (0)
- How Would You Score with Frank Luntz? (0)
- 3 Lessons from Presidential Debate (0)
- Hemingway, Please. Not Joyce. (0)
- 3 Ways to Stay on Top of Your Presentation Game (0)
- Are You a “Tough” Sales Cookie? (0)
- Copy Olympians to Control Jitters (0)
- 7 Tips for Presentation “Gold” (0)
- Prop Trumps Trump: Tip for Presenters (0)
- Do You Model What You Sell? (0)
- 5 Tips to Stop Interrupting Others (0)
- Layer Cake Your Way to Faster Presentation Planning (0)
- When Insults Were Insults! (0)
- Better Than a Rabbit’s Foot? Presentation Rituals (0)
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- The Simplest Way to Win Business (1)
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- How to Deal with Presentation Saboteurs (0)
- Time for a Passion Sales Rally? (0)
- The Pope Gets It. Do You? (0)
- Don’t Drown in Your Own Presentation! (0)
- Right Product? Wrong Pitch? (0)
- What Do a Girl Scout & CEOs Have in Common? (0)
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- How to Destroy a Presentation at the Very End (0)
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- What Your July 4th Greeting to Others Reveals About You (0)
- Conversational Leadership: Do You Have It? (0)
- 100% of Successful People Do This. Do You? (0)
- Don’t Make This Mistake When “Just Explaining” (0)
- If You Were on Time’s 100 Most Influential People List (0)
- ABT Trumps ABC in Presenting (0)
- NEW! INFOGRAPHIC: METAPHOR – SHORTCUT TO “YES!” (0)
- How are Your “Herding Cats” skills? (0)
- Do You Have a Million Dollar Story Like Mitch? (0)
- How to Stand Out on a Panel (0)
- Killer Intros (0)
- Use the News to Engage (0)
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- Stark Choices Sell (0)
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- “Shortcut” to Selling Great Ideas (0)
- To Be A Pro, Watch the Pros (0)
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- Words Not Needed (0)
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- Visual Aid or Visual Assault? (0)
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- Make Your Sales “Dance & Sing” (0)
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- It’s ALL Story–& Always Was (0)
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- Monologues are for Comedians–Not Presenters (0)
- How to Use Quirky Facts to Increase Presentation Success (0)
- Control the Buyer/Seller Vibe (0)
- Variety Keeps Attention (0)
- Present Research That Sticks (0)
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- Return the Wolf to Your Sale (0)
- My Valentine’s Gift to Presenters (0)
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- Are You Sending Mixed Messages? (0)
- Presentation Zing is Just a News Story Away (0)
- Putting on the Ritz (0)
- The Best Holiday Networking Question Ever (0)
- The Simplest Way to Present Value vs. Cost (0)
- Never Let This Ruin Your Presentation (0)
- Reminder Worth Spreading (0)
- What Media’s Mincemeat of Obamacare Can Teach Presenters (0)
- Listening: The Other Half of Presenting (0)
- Is the Confidence Factor Killing or Winning Your Sale? (0)
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- Presentation “Brain Candy” (0)
- The Winning Presentation Forumla (0)
- Virtual Algebra to Simplify Complexity (0)
- Are You Missing an Agenda Strategy? (0)
- When High Touch Trumps High Tech (0)
- 5 Ways to Get Rid of Presentation Killers (0)
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- Improve The Impact of Your Body Talk (0)
- 3 Tips for Dealing with Strangers in Presentations (0)
- Essence of Presentation Success (0)
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- “How Am I Doing?” Ed Koch (0)
- Two Presentation Tips from Obama’s Inaugural (0)
- Persuade or Convince? (0)
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- Passion & Prep Win for Romney (0)
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