Impression Engineers

I welcomed Mick Quinn to Beyond Lip Service. Listen in to this interesting interview. I think I uttered the phrase, I didn’t know that tell me more a half dozen times…  What a great talk. So many insights into why we do what we do. The "I" in "I am thinking" ego and how so many can become stuck in that separation.  Mick’s new book "The Uncommon Path" offer clarity and challenges us to be bold. Right up Beyond Lip Service’s alley! Be Bold is part of our tagline… When I wrote "Life’s Short Live Passionately,"...

With all the day-to-day stuff that bombards us and the unrelentless media blitz on the “crisis” it is easy to lose sight of why we are doing what we are doing…. Some days I just wonder who opened the clown-cage? Seems everybody just wants to quash my passion— Gosh, it is all tooooooo easy to lose motivation. When that happens, I notice I prefer to clean house… I know that sounds silly, but sometimes having my conscious mind focus on something else, like cleaning, allows my unconscious mind to solve problems, re-energize and re-set my "GO" button. Yesterday,...

  Beyond Lip Service welcomes “Talk Radio Advocate” Francine Silverman! As a lifelong New Yorker she honed her writing skills as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. She authored two travel guidebooks, Catskills Alive (2000 and 2003) and Long Island Alive (2003), both published by Hunter Publishing. In 2003, Silverman started Book Promotion Newsletter for authors of all genres. http://www.bookpromotionnewsletter.com. The ezine spawned Book Marketing from A-Z (Infinity Publishing 2005), containing the best marketing strategies of 325 subscribers. The 400-page paperback is...

Have you ever checked caller-id and cringed?  Remember, you are in control. Even in today’s economy, a checkbook and pulse do not a client make…. You do get to choose who you work with. “Everybody and Anybody” are not target markets.  There are people that energize and inspire us and those that don’t. Why risk your reputation and sanity working for someone that you cannot do your best work with. So how can you tell before you start work? Ask to see the potential red flags Develop a screening process. Ask open-ended questions. Open-ended questions...

Beyond Lip Service welcomed Trish Lambert on Tuesday June 9th.   “It’s all about freedom—no excuses!” That’s the tagline of Success in Sweatpants. One of the programs that Trish offers is called “Winning with Elance,” and is for freelancers, or as she likes to call them, “commercial creatives.” Trish has been offering her marketing services on Elance since 2004 and has earned over $100k through the jobs she has won there. Her results have led to her standing as a Premiere Provider and a member of Elance’s Customer Council,...