Tom Ruwitch
Recommended ViewingSpeaking with Confidence and Selling with Authority My friend Jane M. Powers is a public speaking master who knows how to sell from stage. I learn valuable business-building strategies and tactics every time I hear her speak and talk to her. Here’s a great interview she did with SalesPOP! — a digital magazine that…
Hereās the sad tale of a trivia master I knew back in college. His name was Noah Lott Doolittle. When we played the game Trivial Pursuit, Noah always won. What is the scientific name for a rabbit’s tail? Noah knew. (Scut) Before Hollywood, which New Jersey town was a center for the motion picture industry?…
A few months ago, I was working on a new version of a 60-minute storytelling presentation. I was tinkering and tweaking, adding and adjusting. I wanted to make it ājust right,ā and that was holding me back. My friend Susan, who was helping me with the presentation, had seen enough. Gently but firmly, she said,…
A new thing today… A quick-hit video with Michael DeLon and me. I was in a meeting with Michael yesterday afternoon, and he said something really smart. I planned to write an email about it. But later yesterday, Michael and I decided to shoot a video about it. It’s all about how to build personal connections and rapport with prospects BEFORE…
Legend has it that in 1912 Dale āCarnageyā urged the Y.M.C.A in New York to pay him $2/night to teach public speaking to business peopleā¦ ā¦and the Y.M.C.A. told him to get lost. The Y had offered such courses before, and they always flopped. But he was ambitious, and he had a vision. So he…
Recommended Viewing4 (Stoic) Secrets To The Good Life Here’s anotherĀ great videoĀ from Ryan Holiday, author ofĀ “The Daily Stoic” and several other great books. Here’s the video description from Ryan’s YouTube channel: Virtue is one of those words that contains multitudes. If you think about it, being virtuous is not doing one thing all the time, or…
Yesterday, when I told you about Vance Morris and his DBOS 2022 Live Bootcamp (November 2-4 in Baltimore), I forgot to mention three critical things: DBOS stands for “The Definitive Business Operating System.” The system Vance will share at the event is the same one he has implemented for his own business. This system transformed…
Last week, my friend Vance Morris told me about all the great stuff that will happen at his upcoming business-building bootcamp, and then he dropped this bombshell: āIām getting away from being the āDisney Guy.āā Holy Richter-scale, Batman. That shook my world. Vance Morris is a former Disney executive who is the worldās leading authority…
I read an article this morning in one of those big-time business magazines about āhow to create an unforgettable origin story.ā It was kinda forgettable. It contained lots of dos and donātsā¦ ā¦be honestā¦ ā¦donāt just list a chronology of eventsā¦ ā¦include specific detailsā¦ ā¦describe a vivid momentā¦ ā¦and so on, and so forth. But…
A self-proclaimed ārespectfulā reader reacts to yesterdayās email about Bill Russell and dominating presenceā¦. āThis one was a bit self-serving – donāt you think?ā Hereās what I thinkā¦ Oh no! The jig is up.Iāve been exposed.My evil scheme is foiled. Oh waitā¦ ā¦check thatā¦ Thatās not what MEthinks. Thatās what HE thinks.Ā Turns out he…