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This week’s reflection point: Over the past several years I have helped my clients create thousands of pieces of powerful content. From articles and process diagrams, to audio and video recordings and numerous products to name a few. Today, I’d like to focus on the elements of creating effective audio recordings or podcasts. Here they are: Message -Select a topic that is of great interest to your clients to help them increase and accelerate their success. Structure – Keep...
Continue Reading >>This week’s reflection point: I was recently reflecting on what is the one key thing I need to do in order to make this become another great year. Here is the initial list I came up with: Take more risks. Delegate all that’s possible. Increase discipline. Schedule more strategic breaks and thinking time. Identify and implement what it means to work smarter than harder. Recognize key insights and integrate into my content creation, life and business. Create, label and use...
Continue Reading >>During a recent discussion with one of my clients he said: “You know Chad, I get so energized each time I talk with you.” This made me realize that the key objectives when having discussions with our clients are: Deliver strong helpful value. Quickly resolve challenges. Energize them and excite them with new ideas to impact their success. Help them take action and start the next step. What other ideas do you find helpful to energize your clients? Would love...
Continue Reading >>I am excited to announce the launch of the new web presence for KSP Technology, a Saskatchewan-based company that helps clients leverage technology to meet their goals. They implement innovative technological solutions to help their clients gain competitive advantage and sleep well at night. Great company and great people: © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.
Continue Reading >>This week’s reflection point: Here are some ideas on how to improve the quality of our lives and businesses and make sure we stay on top of our game: Abundance thinking is about creating the life that constantly amazes you where you appreciate and cherish every moment. It’s about learning what to remove such as worries, negative thinking, excess baggage and even some people. It is also about knowing you always have the control to create more business or ideas even when you...
Continue Reading >>Here are some you may want to consider and exploit: Improving and accelerating innovation. Leveraging mobile devices to deliver smart content and answers to your clients’ challenges. Making technology more intuitive. Transforming your brand to be associated as a luxury brand. Fighting cyber crime and creating Internet security. Creating provocative content as a major client attraction spokes. © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.
Continue Reading >>This week’s reflection point: As many of you know, early in my career I was a professional musician; playing, composing, entertaining and teaching guitar lessons. It was a surprise to me to learn that some of the world’s best compositions from some of the greatest musicians and artists took only minutes to create. Picasso often bragged of his quick drawing skills. I’ve come to realize that the same applies to creating outstanding content. The best creation can take just a...
Continue Reading >>We just launched the new web presence for Kris Putnam-Walkerly, expert and leader in philanthropic program design, implementation, evaluation and communication. She helps high-profile national foundations, corporate philanthropies, and nonprofits from coast to coast, as well as smaller regional or local foundations that want to achieve big impact. Check out one of our favorite creations, showcasing Kris’s amazing ideas and impact: © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.
Continue Reading >>Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: Several years ago, when designing the logo for my company, I requested the feedback of my trusted support group and found that some like black and some like white. Some like modern and others prefer conservative style....
Continue Reading >>When presenting or facilitating to a group, here are some idea to improve their experience and the value they receive: Ask them to share their top issues and concerns that they would like to resolve by the time the session is adjourn. Share you wisdom, experiences and best practices and substantiate with examples. Engage in exercises that allow them to accelerate their learning. Provoke them. Ask them for their top take-aways and call to actions as you get ready to...
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