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Planning for conference attendance – #Hashtags to Handshakes

Published on September 12, 2011 by Marquis in events, guest bloggers, Networking, other sites

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The article below was submitted by my friend Mike “Ambassador” Bruny, who is a successful life coach and speaker on a range of topics including networking, motivation, and diversity. He has a passion for helping people to make the most of their interactions with new people and, as a part of that, he thought the following piece would be useful for the readers of this blog.

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Title: Planning for conference attendance – #Hashtags to Handshakes
Author: Mike “Ambassador” Bruny

September 1st is the unofficial end of summer. School has started, vacations are ending and there is a feeling … Read the rest

Milkshakes & Product Failures: A Lesson on Segmentation

Published on May 9, 2011 by Marquis in Business, Business concepts, guest bloggers, interesting articles, Marketing, other blogs, other sites, strategy

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Recently, my friend Eric Sforza, who some of you may remember from my video interview of him, reached out to share an article that he thought would be interesting to my readers. Eric studies a range of business topics, but one of his biggest areas of focus is at the intersection of customer orientation and strategy. In this article, he analyzes a case study of how customer segmentation helped to drive sales of milkshakes and shows how a lighthearted topic can lead to useful business insights.

If you enjoy the guest article below, please check out Eric’s blog at … Read the rest

Future of Business: Left & Right Brain Thinking

Published on January 24, 2011 by Marquis in Business, Conversations, guest bloggers

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Earlier this month, I interviewed Eric Sforza, a Connecticut-based Innovation Strategy and Branding Consultant, to gain his insights about business and strategy (Click here to see the interview video) and, afterward, he approached me with an offer to write a guest post to follow-up on his comments from the interview. Based on his personal blog, I knew that he’d deliver something good and I was excited to accept his offer. That guest article is below.

If you enjoy the guest article below, please check out Eric’s blog at http://esforza.wordpress.com. Thanks again to Eric for his contribution.

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Inspirational True Stories – Perseverance Triumphs Initial Failure

Published on December 13, 2010 by Marquis in Business, guest bloggers, interesting articles, other sites, professional advice, Uncategorized

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A couple of months ago, I started to become interested in the wide range of journeys that people had taken in their careers, particularly in the business world. I’m sure that we’ve all heard that there is a “right way” to be successful in business and I find it cool when people don’t go the “right way” and still do well. In response to this interest, I posted a few entries about some of the non-standard paths that well-known people had taken and received some good feedback on those postings.

After that, this notion continued to dwell in my mind … Read the rest

Maintaining Health and Safety Standards: Not Just About Compliance

Published on July 4, 2010 by Marquis in Business, corporate compliance, global impact, guest bloggers, interesting articles, other blogs, other sites

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Hey, everyone. I hope all of you in the U.S. are enjoying the 4th of July weekend. As for me, I’m in the middle of a relaxing trip to the great state of VA to visit my family and it’s nice to be back here after several months of being away. Also, it’s been nice to sit around my mom’s house and just crash for the weekend after having spent the previous few days in the U.K. at some meetings for work. In fact, I’d planned to post this entry earlier this past week, but was pretty swamped while I… Read the rest

A Precarious Undertaking: The Business of Transferring Business Smarts to Public Office

Published on June 24, 2010 by Marquis in Business, Corporate executives, guest bloggers, interesting articles, other sites, politics

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What’s going on, folk. I’m doing something a little different in this entry and am using it to explore a topic that I don’t touch very often on here…politics. I won’t be the one analyzing the topic though…I’ll leave that to a special invited guest. The article below was written by a guest writer named Alvina Lopez, who approached me a few days ago about contributing an entry to the site. Her own website is focused on online education, but she’s written really strong articles on a range of topics. So, I knew that we could really have some fun… Read the rest

Testimonial and advice on approaching the MBA application process from a guest blogger

Published on May 23, 2010 by Marquis in Business School, guest bloggers, mba, my peoples, other blogs, re-applicants, software engineer

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For today’s entry, I’ve asked my friend Deepak Panigrahy to write a guest blog post to share his testimonial about the MBA application process and offer some advice to folks looking toward an MBA in the future.

The story of how I know Deepak is pretty funny…I first connected with him when he emailed me a couple of years ago with questions about getting into business school with a background in Software Engineering. I gave him a response to his email and figured that would be it…until I got another email…and another…and another. At first, I was surprised by the … Read the rest

25 CEOs You Should Follow On Twitter

Published on May 11, 2010 by Marquis in Business, Corporate executives, guest bloggers, interesting articles, other blogs, other sites

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I don’t know about you guys, but I am SO FAR BEHIND when it comes to fully leveraging the power of social networking tools for establishing a personal brand for business. Sure, I’ve got profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn, but I mainly use those to connect with my friends. I have a Twitter account, but I barely use it for anything other than getting the word out about new entries that I post on my website. And, I’m just now getting turned onto the whole FourSquare craze, which is sad because my man Tristan is their VP of Business Development… Read the rest