Another great meeting tonight for Sales & Marketing Executives. Our featured speaker was Justin Foster of Tricycle Brand Development. Justin spoke to us at length regarding the importance of branding, both personal and corporate, and also gave us the “ABC’s” of Social Media. Don’t pee in the pool is a good start (smile). Regarding his subject matter ….how ………….. fortuitous (smile).
Now, I took two full pages of notes from his talk so you are only going to get a few of the highlights to get you started. I might suggest you call on Justin to discuss your specific needs in depth. His logo links to his website as does his company name. There is a link on the side bar on this page…also to his site. Click on Justin’s name and go to, God forbid………..Facebook (smile). This creates a huge problem for me as I had pretty much put Facebook on the back burner as nothing more than “MySpace” for adults and now he tells me I should be on it. Oh well, another item on my ever increasing “to-do” list (smile). Here’s some excerpts from Justin’s talk: (more…)
Started my morning out with with three referrals on signs that could potentially mean about $20,000 in revenues. This really gets down to the core of networking. I split my time fairly evenly between the networking activities as it pertains to our group and the other half of my time to the sign bidness (smile). Better than 90% of my clients are either repeat business or referral. And, closing ratios are reflected in those types of relationships. 
Substitute the rice for a smoked baked potato, add some BBQ beans and macaroni salad, and………….me likey (smile). Just got back from the “Smoke Out” which is a monthly networking event that is put on by the folks over at 
