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I’ve just been reading some of the excellent marketing posts appearing on the 360 Results blog. Useful RSS feeds like this one get added straight into my Google Reader account…well sometimes. A RSS feed by the way is a list of all blog posts on a website. By subscribing to the RSS feed the news from [...]

This morning during breakfast my youngest daughter and I were discussing flags on the back of a conversation about the countries competing in the 2010 Fifa World Cup. I asked, “What are flags useful for?”, and she replied, “For the Queen’s Birthday” “Parades” “Sticking on the moon to say it’s yours” “Your planet” I then [...]

The Fine Art of Small Talk Debra Fine. Hyperion 2005, Hardcover, 224 pages, $7.15 Initiating a conversation with other people can be difficult as most of us are so worried about what the other person will think of us that we decide it’s better to say nothing than to expose our flaws. This topic is [...]

The Enigma of the Knights Templar Marilyn Hopkins. The Disinformation Company 2007, Hardcover, 144 pages, $6.19 The Knights Templar are an organisation shrouded in myth and controversy. Having gained recent popularity in the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code, it is interesting to hear something of the real story behind them as told in [...]

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The Organic Trade Association have created a great piece of marketing to get their message across. Grocery Store Wars is a Star Wars parody that takes healthy food right to the couch potatoes. The laughing will be good for you even if you miss the healthy message.

Straight from the “how dumb do they think their customers are file”, I saw this on a sign in the window of my local McDonalds. It’s an advertisement for thier soft-serve ice-creams. After all this time, still only 30c50c After all this time there seems to have been a price increase and a new-price sticker [...]

A student recently wrote a letter to my local paper seeking advice on motivation. My life is at a turning point; I’ve finished VCE [Year 12] and am now faced with the question of what I want to do with my life…I’m interested to find out what people do to get, and stay, motivated. I [...]

Email productivity

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Marc has posted a great idea for email productivity. It uses mnemonics in the subject line to mark what response is required from a message, eg. “NRN – Whatever subject” to designate No Reply Needed. I often get a lot of emails with a replied comment or a ‘thanks’ when I didn’t need or want [...]

This post is part of a broader effort by me to define who, and what, I am as a coach. The list that follows is the first cut of the 20+ things that I can do for potential coaching clients. It took about 20 minutes to write (with 2+ years of background thinking in my [...]