Promod Sharma

website: marketingactuary.com
This blog helps advisors improve by sharing ideas, insights and best practices.

Here are some posts:

The Latest

1. Five Presentation Tips from live Bruce Springsteen (April 8, 2009)
2. Lessons from "Networking with Millionaires" by Thomas J Stanley (Mar 31, 2009)
3. Tax Worries for Small Business Owners in Canada (Mar 24, 2009)
4. Nicholas Boothman: Creating Your 10 Second Commercial (Mar 18, 2009)
5. Why Twitter (Finally) Makes Sense For Building Your Business (Mar 11, 2009)
6. Create Your Web Presence: Three Easy Steps For Advisors (Mar 3, 2009)
7. Advisor Oversights: What Impression Does Your Washroom Create? (Feb 24, 2009)
8. Three Internet Marketing Lessons from Paul Tobey That Work Offline (Feb 19, 2009)
9. The "Tangled Web of Weirdness": Squawking About Life Insurance (Feb 10, 2009)
10. Google Alerts: Track What Matters To You (Feb 4, 2009)
11. Why Do Brian Tracy and Stephen Covey use Overhead Transparencies? (Jan 26, 2008)
12. Observations From The Toronto Franchise Show (Jan 19, 2009)
13. Your 10 Favourite Posts of 2008 (Jan 6, 2009)
14. Move Beyond "Tell Them Thrice" (Dec 22, 2008)
15. Marketing With Video: Learn From An Amateur (Dec 15, 2008)
16. Creativity vs Control: Beating Your Larger Competitors (Dec 10, 2008)
17. Mastering The Five Relationship Styles (Aug 19, 2008)
18. Eventbrite: How To Organize Events Like Harvard University and IBM (July 29, 2008)
19. The Six Most Influential Word Groups (July 22, 2008)
20. Why You Need A Weak Link To Give Excellent Service (July 15, 2008)

Marketing

1. Lessons from "Networking with Millionaires" by Thomas J Stanley
2. Tax Worries for Small Business Owners in Canada
3. Nicholas Boothman: Creating Your 10 Second Commercial
4. Why Twitter (Finally) Makes Sense For Building Your Business
5. Create Your Web Presence: Three Easy Steps For Advisors
6. How Can Your Clients Find You?
7. Creativity vs Control: Beating Your Larger Competitors
8. 1-800: Working In Multiple Cities and Provinces
9. Get Foundin Linkedin To Keep Growin
10. Why You Need A Weak Link To Give Excellent Service
11. Three Internet Marketing Lessons from Paul Tobey That Work Offline (Feb 19, 2009)
12. Eventbrite: How To Organize Events Like Harvard University and IBM
13. Can We Tell Who Buys What?
14. Mastering The Five Relationship Styles
15. Observations From The Toronto Franchise Show
16. Advisor Oversights: What Impression Does Your Washroom Create?
17. Marketing With Video: Learn From An Amateur

Presentations

1. Five Presentation Tips from live Bruce Springsteen
2. Five Presentation Tips from Steve Jobs
3. Why Do Brian Tracy and Stephen Covey use Overhead Transparencies?
4. Move Beyond "Tell Them Thrice"
5. Murphy's Laws vs Six Presentations In A Row
6. Three Permanent Fears For Presenters
7. 4:35am --- A Day In The Life
8. Three Communication Tips: Jokes, Length, Offense

Improving Yourself

1. Zig Ziglar's Inspire Podcast: Motivating Messages
2. CALU 2008 - Sharing The Wisdom
3. 2008 Goals for Advisors

Productivity

1. Google Alerts: Track What Matters To You
2. Talking > Typing: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9
3. The Email Avalanche: Five Tips for Survival

Influence

1. Universal Principle of Influence #1: Reciprocity
2. Universal Principle of Influence #2: Scarcity
3. Universal Principle of Influence #3: Authority
4. Universal Principle of Influence #4: Consistency
5. Universal Principle of Influence #5: Consensus
6. Universal Principle of Influence #6: Liking
7. The Six Most Influential Word Groups

General

1. Your 10 Favourite Posts of 2008
2. Three Lessons From My Third Year In The Field
3. Audi, BMW, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz: Three Lessons From The Salespeople
4. The Car Purchase: Recovering From Bad Service
5. Who's Reading: The Top Posts of 2008 Q1
6. Who's Reading: The Top 5 Posts of 2007
7. Patterns: 14 Snow Plows and 122 Science Projects
8. A Better Email Notification Service For You

Insurance

1. The "Tangled Web of Weirdness": Squawking About Life Insurance