Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

The new marketing world

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

I recently had the opportunity to listen to Seth Godin talk about blogging. While doing that, he introduced a new marketing paradigm.

According to Seth, there is a revolution underway in the entire field of marketing.

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Embrace the positive deviants

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I had the recent chance to spend time with Marshall Thurber, one of Bucky Fuller‘s students. Marshall is a is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker. I saw a little of this diversity of skill when he talked to us. Marshall owns a firm called The Positive Deviant Network.

Not exactly a mainstream thinker, but of course, that’s the point—his focus is on the outliers.

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The Trend is your friend

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

As secure as we may be with ourselves and our company things are changing all around us. We need to be tuned in and we need to stay tuned.

At Leriot, we preach to concept of Clarification—assessing and making sense. Earlier this year I listened with great interest to Rieva Lesonsky. After many years as editorial director at Entrepreneur magazine, she is the Small Business Expert at AllBusiness.

She offered some keen insights into following trends.

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Hello world!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Welcome to my blog. After a great deal of thinking and procrastination I have decided to launch my blog.

I have been directly involved with helping private businesses grow and prosper for the last twenty six years. During that time I have gained considerable experience and skill working with business owners and their teams as an investment banker, consultant, teacher, and trusted advisor. 

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