be more memorable

Use these to “encode” memories better (and remember more)

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved:  We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.”  ~Friedrich Nietzsche   Lately I have been reading books on how the mind works and more specifically: how we learn things, how we develop and encode memories and thoughts. How would you like [...]

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Video Marketing WITHOUT being in front of the camera

“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.” ~ Gandhi In your opinion, can you an entrepreneur, salesperson or executive use Video Marketing to promote her company, get more clients and make more money WITHOUT ever being in front of the camera? Most would say NO. Today I’m going to [...]

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present ideas

How to Effectively Present Your Ideas

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. ~ Joey Skaggs When it comes to public speaking and presentation skills training, there are 4 areas [...]

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influence-people

What a Pick Up Artist Can Teach You about Business

“It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce” ~Voltaire   I’m planning a trip to Brazil in a few weeks so I called one of my buddies down there to see if I could influence him into picking me up from the airport, make some plans with him and to [...]

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influence vs reach

What is the difference between “Reach and Influence”?

 What is the difference between “Reach and Influence”? That is one question that I ask audiences when doing presentations about influence. In this quick post you will learn this critical distinction between reach and influence, and what to do in order to leverage this concept to get more clients… I define reach as how many [...]

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how-to-be-happy

How To “Install” the Happiness Habit

I have written extensively in the past about how our reflection of “self” impacts our daily actions and therefore is a significant driver for our current results. Our self-image and our habits tend to be significantly correlated. Change one and you automatically change the other. In his book, “psycho-cybernetics” Dr. Maltz gives a great metaphorical [...]

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get-more-done

5 Ways to Get More Done

Set Goals for the Month: I’m not going to tell you to set goals. At this point in your life you should know the power of this and hopefully you have already finished them. (I’m going to assume you have) Having goals will guide you on what you should be spending your time on and [...]

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the power of declaration

Mission Possible. This will make your dreams come true..

As we say goodbye to 2011 and welcome 2012, I’m sure you have big hopes, goals and dreams for the future. I know I do. Since day one Roberto and I have had a dream of making InfluenceOlogy an international brand. 3 years ago I made this declaration and the last time I looked, we [...]

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how to create urgency

The Top 1% In YOUR Industry Is Doing THIS….Are YOU?

Create Urgency ..in many cases this “lack of urgency” is what stops us from maximizing our potential or even achieving our outcomes in business and life… In this quick video, you will learn 3 quick points about “acting with urgency” so that your 2012 turns out to be the way you want it.

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2012 marketing predictions

2012 Predictions

Ok, it’s that time of year. It’s time to make my predictions for 2012. Though, I think the biggest and most radical changes are going to occur in the Geo – political arena and specifically in the open sore sector called “banking”– with a mass exodus of American wealth to foreign countries and investments and [...]

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