Gone are the days when your website was a static electronic brochure for your practice. Your website is now a marketing and prospecting tool to attract new customers. People don’t decide to drive the freeways to go looking at advertising billboards — and people do not troll the internet looking to be sold to. People [...]
Courier-Mail Newspaper: Executive Wisdom Q&A May 2012
Here is the May 2012 edition of my Q&A column in the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper. Send your questions to ric@executivewisdom.com and we will ask the newspaper to publish your questions. We do not have editorial control and cannot guarantee that your particular question will be published.
Courier-Mail Newspaper: Executive Wisdom Q&A April 2012
Here is the April 2012 edition of my Q&A column in the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper. Send your questions to ric@executivewisdom.com and we will ask the newspaper to publish your questions. We do not have editorial control and cannot guarantee that your particular question will be published.
Courier-Mail Newspaper: Executive Wisdom Q&A March 2012
Here is the March 2012 edition of my Q&A column in the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper. Send your questions to ric@executivewisdom.com and we will ask the newspaper to publish your questions. We do not have editorial control and cannot guarantee that your particular question will be published.
Fearless Sales & Marketing Workshop – Jakarta
Fearless Sales & Marketing Workshop – Jakarta 27-28 August You’ve seen it. Some businesses seem to have a Midas touch where everything they touch turns to gold. Others constantly seem to struggle. If you have been curious about the very strategies that high-profit professionals employ, make certain you attend. This 2-day masterclass will help you [...]
Fearless Sales & Marketing Workshop – Kuala Lumpur
Fearless Sales & Marketing Workshop – Kuala Lumpur 17-18 September You’ve seen it. Some businesses seem to have a Midas touch where everything they touch turns to gold. Others constantly seem to struggle. If you have been curious about the very strategies that high-profit professionals employ, make certain you attend. This 2-day masterclass will help [...]
Who owns your LinkedIn contacts?
The contacts on your LinkedIn profile are more likely to belong to your employer than they are to you if those contacts are customers, employees, or vendors you did business with in your job.Richard Tyler, The Telegraph UK
A former employee of recruitment firm Hays has been ordered by the High Court to hand over business contacts built up on his personal page of the social networking site LinkedIn. The decision is one of the first to highlight the tension between businesses encouraging employees to use social networking websites for work but then [...]
Channel 9 offers $300,000 reward if you break the law
The family of a 14-year-old NSW boy facing drug charges in Bali has reportedly sold his story for a six-figure sum to the Nine Network.AAP
In 1908 the philanthropist Joseph Rowntree said the greatest threats to society’s moral fabric were poverty, drunkenness, the opium trade, ‘impurity’, gambling, war and slavery. Today, we observe that involvement in crime by younger and younger persons, violence, decline of the family structure, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, inequality and immigration are major concerns. Ethics, [...]
All Blacks Rugby World Cup 2011
Congratulations to New Zealand for not only winning the Webb Ellis Cup for the first time since 1987 but on hosting a very well organised event over the last two months.
Ric Willmot in Melbourne Oct 20 & 21
I’m speaking at the Convention Centre for CPA Australia Thursday and Friday this week. If you are so inclined, I’m happy to share some time with you between my presentations. Drop me a note if you will be in the area would like to catch up.
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