Articles by Tripp Braden

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Making Your Goals Count

Making Your Goals Count by Jim Rohn (Excerpted from Week 7 of the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan – S.M.A.R.T. Goals by Jim Rohn) As we enter into this New Year we all tend to have a heightened sense of the opportunities and possibilities that 2007 can bring. The need…


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The Ball is Forever in Your Court. Don’t Drop it.

Author Keith F. Luscher I don’t know if I have been writing a bit too much lately on the subject of making calls, but when it comes to our own challenges in overcoming CALL RELUCTANCE, part of me feels like it just cannot get too much attention. There is a…


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The Power of Questions

What are you doing right now? Are you happy doing it? Is this what you wanted to do today? Had you thought about what you wanted to accomplish today? Are these questions you’ve asked yourself? Are you aware of the questions you ask yourself through the course of the day,…


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Come Blow Your Horn

I blame my mother. I know everyone blames their mother for just about everything, but in this instance, I really do blame my mother. My mother always said I shouldn’t toot my own horn. She said I shouldn’t brag, it made people think I was arrogant. Luckily, I didn’t listen…


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The Time to Plan Your Future is Now

As the year winds to a close, I suppose it’s natural to look back on the previous months and ask yourself if you accomplished all that you wanted to. Are you happy with the way things have turned out? Did you accomplish your goals in your career and home life?…


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Man Gives Right Arm to Meet with Prospect

Author Keith F. Luscher Phil Reese, vice president of Small Business Payroll Services, LLC in Columbus, Ohio had a problem not unlike what many of you may be facing. “For a number of years,” Phil says, “we did very well driving new business purely on referrals. But as the economy…


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Newsletter Marketing – Frequency Trumps Everything

by Jim Palmer – the Newsletter Guru If you’ve been reading my blog (http://www.thenewsletterguru.com) for a while, you’ve heard me say that how often you send a customer newsletter is the most important thing. It is more important than its style, color, size, name, or anything else you can think…


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Turbo-Charged Testimonials

We’re in Washington DC this week but have had several interesting conversations with clients about how they can use testimonials to build trust with clients faster. My friend Keith shared his thoughts last month on how we might use the power of video to turbocharge testimonials. I thought I would…


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Your 5-Step Cycle for Endless Internet Sales! Part 2

I just finished attending the Glazer-Kennedy Information Marketing Summit in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland. This is the second half of a two-part article by Ali Brown on how to boost your sales using a standardized process. Part one covered the first two steps. Part two covers the last three steps. Your…


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Your 5-Step Cycle for Endless Internet Sales! Part 1

This week I’m attending the Glazer-Kennedy Information Marketing Summit in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland. While I’ll be in sessions learning more about the latest in marketing, I’ll post a two-part article by Ali Brown on how to boost your sales using a standardized process. Part one covers the first two steps….