jeff marmins: misc. musings.

I like lists.  And, I love Keith Ferrazzi and his book Never Eat Alone.  Yesterday’s post on the Never East Alone Blog by Ian Yberra has the following with a link to good descriptions of the first five or so on Kai Chang’s Blog: "How many essential people in your life? My friend Kai Chang [...]

I had a fun and exciting interview with Andy Forbes about entrepreneurship, vision, passion and more at www.theandyforbesfiles.com/.  Please have a listen – it’s available via podcast as well as an mp3 download. It was fun to do and I hope I get to do it again.  Andy is an entrepreneur and currently engaged in [...]

I am a long time, true blue Harvey Mackay fan.  I just read a great post of Keith Ferrazzi’s at http://tinyurl.com/d9k8g  that is the most poignant modern day version of Mr Mackay’s advice.  Mr. Mackay taught me to be a master of the short note.  A skill I still think is invaluable.  How many hand [...]

Lots of Info out there.  How do you deal with it?  Updates and news bulletins in your email, weblogs, online seminars, continued education, news-feeds, and now pod-casts.  I try and batch by subject and research area, starting with those things that relate to my primary client list and family first.  Anything after that varies by [...]

How do people that don’t follow up stay in business?  Have you ever wondered why someone that you’re doing business with can wait so long to return a phone call, an email, thank you for a referral (or not thank you at all – whoops!).  Easy to do AND easy not to do – but [...]

Have you ever sat in a restaurant, visited a store or stayed at a hotel and thought, "boy could I do this better!"  Hmmm…well, perhaps it’s just me but my experiences with customer service have made me say this very thing under my breath quite a bit lately. My family stayed at a cabin on [...]

I originally posted this years ago.  I’ve since learned that the 7Ps have been around for a long time, and repeated often.  The Air Force, the Boy Scouts and countless project oriented companies use this as a constant mantra. I had the pleasure of attending a Microsoft Live Meeting this week entitled “Relationships For Revenue [...]