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By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Tips and Topics on Starting a Conversation And Establish Report With Any New Contact or Prospect

Charlie Cook said it right: whether you are in the elevator or on the phone, the way you start the conversation will determine whether or not it will continue. So many times we face the uncomfortable situation of meeting with a recently established contact and we just don’t know what to say. In fact, opening a conversation requires a set of skills if you want to leave an everlasting impression that will make the other one eager to come to you every time he/she will meet you.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

5 Ways To Get Someone Who Doesn’t Know You To feel Comfortable Talking

You have about ten seconds before a person decides, subconsciously, whether they like you or not. Also, the image or impression someone has of you the first time the person meets you will last the next seven time the person will come to meet you. All that to show how important and delicate it can be to start and connect with a new contact. Whether you are in business, jou alism, politics, or unemployed, it comes a time you need to solicit the service of attention of someone.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

4,320 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

The Power Behind Names

Names! Names! Names! Names are important. Whether for you personal, social, or professional life, names get you in. I first learned about the importance of names back in 2004 when I first started working with the Southweste Company as an independent sales dealer. Our sales talk was sewed around dropping names that our prospects could connect to. Today, when I propose my services as Relationship Strategist for individuals and corporates, when I meet with friends and make new friends, when I ask for business referrals, I can still notice how important names are.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

4,142 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Make Yourself Unforgettable

If you know me, then you will know one of my irrefutable truth: once you’ve been introduced to me then you will remember me forever. I start noticing that strength of mine when I was still in college and was partying a lot. For some reason, at any party, or event that I was attending, if there was one person that I’ve been introduced to, then that person would come with a big smile and would give me a charming friendly hug with “MAX-MARC” highly pronounced and a distinguished smiley face.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

4,039 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

How To Enthuse a Sales Team That Is Not Paid On Commission

What is the best way to motivate a sales team without them relying on commission as the reason to unleash the best in them???

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

2,547 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

How To Keep a Clean Facebook Image

I was talking with my fiancee yesterday and she was sharing a story of one of her friends whose image has diminished because of her activities and the quality of status updates she puts on her Facebook page. After the sharing, we then realized the impact Facebook can have in people's lives when it comes to image and reputation. Yes, Facebook is great at helping people connect with friends, friends of friends, and even unknown persons. Yes , Facebook allows to share with your network just about anything you feel like posting.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

2,530 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

I've Learned it From The Life of Jesus

Here is my bet: take any area of your life that you deeply want to flip straight back up, I guarantee you, you can get the solution looking at the inspiring life of God’s Son: Jesus-christ.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

2,476 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Transform Your Image at Work

Some people were born with the golden spoon and fortunately never had to work truly hard to transform their image. For the majority however, it’s not the case. One has to work hard on his job and also on the image he/she reflects. It can be at work, at home, with friends. How do you manage your reputation? What image do people of you? How to transform your image? Folks, this is Max, your Relationship Strategist, and this post is about Reputation Management.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

2,464 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Achieve More By Getting More NOs

Since the childhood we've come to believe that NO means we have to stop. We tend to believe that NO means failure. We came to believe that No is synonym of limit. how true is that? What is NO was nothing but the real doorway to success? Once he found the magic formula, Thomas Edison said: "I haven't failed. I've identified 10,000 ways this doesn't work." The Southweste top producer Dustin Hillis as another refraiming saying SW SW SW N meaning: Some Will, Some Won't, So What? NEXT.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

2,210 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

How I Boosted My Confidence Level Through Public Speaking

The following post is a request of a Linkedin friend of mine who will be teaching a class this week at her church in which she will be introducing some church members to the basics of public speaking through a program sponsored by Toastmasters International. She wanted to have my personal experiences in regarding to growing your confidence through improved public speaking. Here is my story.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

2,196 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Prepare For Success

Success doesn’t just happen. It’s envisioned, it’s prepared, it’s measured, and it’s managed. On this post I share two important points you need to be aware of in order to succeed. I was just watching the game 7 of the NBA final 2010 and Kobe Bryant the MVP was saying at the interview on ESPN that the reason behind his average performance during the first period is due to the over pressure he puts on himself. He wanted to win so bad that he was about to miss it. What kind of emotions we need to watch and how to deal with each one?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,615 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Building Lifelong Customers and Friends Relationships

In the past, to succeed in business, salespeople had to work 80% of their time prospecting new market and only 20% of their time working on their relationship management. Today, it’s all different. To succeed in business, to create more life opportunities, you need to work mainly at creating, developing, and managing your relationships. Forget about the vendor etiquette you once heard it’s good to post on the front head, now, in today competitive market, you have to be the partner, the friend.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,555 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Can I Choose My Friends?

Hello friends, bloggers, facebookers, twitters…no matter how you came across this article, I am glad you made it here and hope that you will share the post because RELATIONSHIP MATTERS. Last night I was inspired enough to write this quote I came up with on my facebook page: “In relationship, do not ask what someone can do for you, but what you can do for the person. It is not how you can be served, but how you can serve. Not what you can benefit, but what they can benefit from you.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,539 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Stop Being a Networking Dork

When I decided to enter the niche of Relationships Coaching, my main goal was to just in lighting up individuals and corporates on the way they handle their business relationships.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,514 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

The 7 Top Notch Professions to Connect With to Grow Your Network

Folks, people is everything. The people you are connected to, the organizations and meetings you attend, all that matters when you have a burning desire to grow your network. In this world of challenge, competition, employment crisis, and unsecured job, it’s more than ever important for everyone, individuals and companies, to work on developing trustful and solid connections.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,458 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Between Work And Home, What Is The Best Work Environment For Productivity?

How many times on average you spend at work per week? Most people will probably say something between 40 hours to 50 hours or even 60 hours as for the elite average. Now let me ask you this, when you come back from work, how many hours do you take out of your family time to finish an unfinished work that was meant to be finished at work? On this post, I am not going to judge whether or not it's ok to bring work at home, but I will light up on some of the reasons why working at home in contrast to the typical workplace will work better for everyone.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,409 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Is There Any Recipe For Success Other Than That?

I’ve been working in sales for 7 years and embraced the professional coaching industry for 2 years now. In those two fields just like in many other professional fields and in life in general, people try to be successful. I mean, who wouldn’t like to have a successful career, a successful marriage, in short… a successful living. So, I’ve asked myself three questions: 1- What does it mean to be successful? In other words, is there a standard definition of success or is success defined according to any one of us?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,404 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

What Is The #1 Real Tool To Stop Procrastinating?

I am reading for the second time this wonderful best selling book from Napoleon Hill published in 1937 and entitled: “Think and Grow Rich.” (the book is available at Cheap’Shop, the Act2be.com online store of ONLY self-improvement materials). In the chapter 8 of this original version, Napoleon Hill talks about the mastery of PROCRASTINATION and he said: “Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure disclosed the fact that LACK OF DECISION was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of FAILURE.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,364 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Leadership in Relationships…What is This About?

The last two weeks, I received at my place at North Easton,MA (USA) about 150 people for the celebration of my wedding to the most amazing person God blessed me to be with: My wife, Dr. Vanessa Estelle Fossouo. There were people everywhere, some people I haven’t heard of for more than 10 years, friends from high school, from college, for previous workplace… Other than my friends, lot of my wife’s friends were also there. One week after the wedding there are few names that seem to be unforgettable.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,335 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

What Makes You The Biggest Loser?

I was watching the NBC show last night called “The biggest Loser” and that’s how I got inspired by this new topic: “What Makes You The Biggest Loser?” What actually fascinated me a lot was not only the high expectations the trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper had for their teams but also how demanding they were with their teams to have results. After only couple of weeks, people already lost 20 lbs, 30 lbs, even 40 lbs. Matter of fact, one has lost more than 11 lbs last week.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,333 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Building Intimacy With Your Network

If you want to create a really dynamite network, you have to really follow through when you say, “I’d like to get to know you.” From my previous post (Make Yourself Unforgettable) I’ve shared the idea stating that each person we meet up with or get introduce to represent a doorway to opportunity. However, enjoying the benefits of being connected to someone has some requirements. You need to be intimate. The more intimate the better the chances to receive what you ask.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,311 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

Network Like a King

Networking is great, fun, and yet not easy. Before I study Relationships and the pillars of professional networking, I used to think that networking with people was just about going to events and exchanging business cards with all people we meet there. However somehow, I found out that from the tens of people I gave my business card to, only two or three got back to me and did want to follow up do business with me. So I decided to dig into what made those two or three people to get back to me that I didn’t do with the rest of the people.

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,263 views

By Max-Marc FossouoRecently published1 topic

What Are We Doing That Makes Absolutely NO sense?

I came across the idea of this post as I was watching a seminar video from Tony Robbins in Act2be.com. Tony’s video was about why we do what we do. After watching it, I’ve questioned myself: what is that we do that makes absolutely so sense?

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

1,237 views

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