Hi everyone:

This is a partial list of the blogs and podcasts I read regularly. You may want to review these regularly to stay on top of trends, improve your sales activity, and focus your mind on what you’re doing.

These are all RSS feeds. Copy and paste them in your feed reader. (If you do not know what one is, just let me know.)

With all of this info – there is good and bad – take what you feel is most important for your profession.

Sales

http://feeds.feedburner.com/caskey

http://feeds.feedburner.com/JimLogan

http://www.crmmastery.com/weblog/rss.xml — he focuses on CRM, but it has good clips from other places on business development

http://feeds.feedburner.com/2-speed - some management items, but good sales thoughts

Sales / Marketing

http://decker.typepad.com/welcome/rss.xml

http://feeds.feedburner.com/guykawasaki/Gypm

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/atom.xml

Services

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavidMaistersPassionPeopleAndPrinciples — he wrote the book ‘The Trusted Advisor and has a podcast in a different RSS feed.

IT / online specific, but relevant to what’s going on:

http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/atom.xml

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch

Small business

http://iqcontent.syndicateiq.net/parsers/feedParser?feedId=220&uuid=d7b34d6a856abb9405ad6c4358fed462/index.xml

Podcasts – all can be found through iTunes or on their individual web sites.

The Advanced Selling podcast - http://www.billcaskey.com/the_advanced_selling_podcast/index.html (yes, the picture looks cheesy, but the show is good)

The Cold Calling Podcast – subscribe at http://coldcallingpodcast.com/

The Sales Roundup Podcast - http://www.salesroundup.com/

The Great Salesperson podcast - http://www.parisse.com/podcasts/index.shtml

Let me know of more you use.

As I’m flying to St Louis today reading Bruce Scheier’ “Beyond Fear”, I’m struck by something so obvious that I feel stupid.

We all fill out forms online. Many of the forms require some sort of security verification in the event of a lost password. For instance, your Mother’s Maiden name is frequently used.

I imagine many people use their mother’s real maiden name. Why? Because we are asked to and because its easy for us to remember. The former is likely the main reason and subconscious.

We do not have to use real information when filling out these forms.

Don’t be a sheep.

Google now has a patent search.

Business Business books of the year by BusinessWeek and Amazon.

For the philosophers…The Nietzsche Family Circus … a must see

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