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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR SPEAKER… A salvo of ideas for you to consider by Geoff Ramm

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR SPEAKER… A salvo of ideas for you to consider by Geoff Ramm

25/01/2018 | Professional Speaking News

1. Social Media: To create a buzz in advance of your event, ask your speaker to regularly send out promotional tweets, instragram pics or linkedin and facebook updates. 2. Pre Event Video: To help boost bookings or to enthuse internal team members, simply ask the speaker to produce a short 90 second video of who they are, what they’ll ...

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You Can't Build Relationships While Sat at Your Desk by Andy Lopata

You Can't Build Relationships While Sat at Your Desk by Andy Lopata

04/01/2018 | Professional Speaking News

A client recently briefed me ahead of a forthcoming event to a group of recent graduates. I was told that many graduate employees over recent years have spurned face-to-face networking events and conferences, seeing such events as a waste of time because they could build the necessary relationships online.  There is no doubt that the proliferation of online networks and their rapid gro...

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Service over Sales - The Telephone Assassin's Approach

Service over Sales - The Telephone Assassin's Approach

08/12/2017 | Professional Speaking News

How important is telephone etiquette to your sales calls? Anthony Stears AKA The Telephone Assassin has one mission - to get businesses talking again. In a world led by digital technology the art of conversation and building relationships verbally is eroded daily by the ever-increasing numbers of text messages and emails. When business relationships are increasingly important to...

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8 Things to Consider Before Sending a Connection Request on LinkedIn by Andy Lopata

8 Things to Consider Before Sending a Connection Request on LinkedIn by Andy Lopata

22/11/2017 | Professional Speaking News

There are different schools of thought on how to approach connecting on LinkedIn. Do you connect with as many people as possible? After all, surely a wide network gives you access to more people. Or are strong relationships the key factor for you, developing a network made up only of people you know, like and trust? I certainly have my own preferences but whatever you decide, it...

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Communication - By being a Zoo Keeper

Communication - By being a Zoo Keeper

19/10/2017 | Professional Speaking News

There are no difficult customers - there are just different customers. When communicating to your team, your staff, your family and your customers your job is to understand their style and needs as quickly as possible. Thus the role of the zoo keeper is paramount. So what do I mean? You will meet many different people in your life and whilst there are thousands o...

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Intrapreneurship and How to Make it Work in Your Business

Intrapreneurship and How to Make it Work in Your Business

30/08/2017 | Professional Speaking News

We are in a time where customer expectation is high. Where consumers are always looking for a product or service that understands their needs and provides for them as efficiently as possible. How do you correlate what you are offering with what the current market is wanting? It is a common concept to adapt your business to suit the needs of customers, however from a management level, th...

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Sport vs Business

Sport vs Business

03/08/2017 | Professional Speaking News

Can the business industry learn from sport? Merisha Stevenson, BBC Non-Executive Director recently wrote an article on boxer Anthony Joshua's Life Lessons which I really think we can learn from, in life and business. Life is uncertain. Business is uncertain. Winning a fight to become heav...

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Top 10 Traits of Successful People - by Nigel Risner

Top 10 Traits of Successful People - by Nigel Risner

19/04/2016 | Professional Speaking News

Nigel Risner, author and television presenter tells all. “We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie … and then disappear. Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives. These examples do not inspire me! My focus and f...

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Marketing Master Strikes Back with OMG II

Marketing Master Strikes Back with OMG II

18/12/2015 | Professional Speaking News

If our business landscape was the Galaxy, if Lord Sugar was the Sith Lord and Richard Branson was Yoda then Geoff Ramm would truly be our Jedi Knight of Marketing and Customer Service. The second installment of Observational Marketing Greats "OMG Strikes Back" has hit the online bookshelves recently and it is packed with Marketing genius.   Inside this little book of match...

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Find the Superhero in YOU!...

Find the Superhero in YOU!...

30/11/2015 | Professional Speaking News

Brand new and EXCLUSIVE to Achievers Speakers, Jamie McDonald cycled 14,000 miles from Bangkok to Gloucester, then broke the world record for continuous static cycling (over 11 days!!) and then ran 5,000 miles across Canada - the only person ever to do this unaided! He did all this for charity, raising over a quarter of a million pounds in the process...

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Discover the G A P in Your Customer Service You Never Knew Existed!

Discover the G A P in Your Customer Service You Never Knew Existed!

14/10/2015 | Professional Speaking News

BRAND NEW SHOW REEL ON CELEBRITY CUSTOMER SERVICE Geoff Ramm is by far one of USB UK's most popular speakers. Aside from the accolades, hugely positive client testimonials, social media posts and book reviews, the acid test for us is that every event we book Geoff for we get a re-booking or referral for another one. So, what's all the fuss about? Firstly, Geoff speaks on Custom...

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SUMO is 10!

SUMO is 10!

10/10/2015 | Professional Speaking News

After being rejected by thirteen publishers, and told it had a shelf-life of 18 months, we are absolutely thrilled to announce the 10th Anniversary edition of SUMO (Shut Up Move On) by one of our favourite motivational and inspirational business speakers, Paul McGee. We all long for succes...

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