I just read an article on BNET on the Top 10 Lies Customers Tell Sales Reps. Let’s face it, customers sometimes lie to try to get a discount or not paying at all. I know I’ve been the victim of this in the past.. and in the present. I’m waiting for a company, that I won’t say the name, said 30 days checks are sent. 30 Days have passed and I still haven’t received my check and they aren’t answering emails. After reading this article I’m pretty psyched to call them on the phone. Read the list of lies..

LIE #10: “We don’t have the budget.”

How often it’s actually true: About 25 percent of the time.

Why they tell this lie: This is shorthand for “we have budget money assigned to other projects that are considered higher priority.”

Your best response: Through questioning and conversation, gather information about where money is currently being spent. Once you’ve discovered what’s funded and why, reposition your offering and the value it provides so that it becomes higher priority than the budget items that are currently funded.

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I just came back from a cruise I took with my lady on the Norwegian Sky, which I don’t recommend. Unfortunately we couldn’t get to the second island due to the fact that a man fell over-board. My condolences go out to his family. We tried to make the best of it and arrived to Nassau in the Bahamas. We mostly hung out at Atlantis in Paradise Island. Here’s only a few of the many pictures we took.

Stay tuned for the video, once I get it editted.

I recently attended a HubSpot webinar about the importance of Social Media with special guest Brent Leary (@brentleary) . He spoke about various social media websites but mainly kept coming back to Twitter. It’s no wonder since it’s recent fame and popularity. You can’t turn on the news without hearing about it. Anyways, here’s some services in which you can take Twitter to that next level:

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Email marketing is the most popular and one of the most effective forms of marketing used today. It is quick to deploy, offers immediate and highly measurable results, enables advanced customer segmentation and personalization and delivers a high return on investment. But achieving optimal results from your email marketing programs requires experience, planning and advanced technology. Planning and execution of successful email marketing programs can become quite complex at times, leaving you feeling like enlisting help from an expert on the subject.

Today I came across the Lyris Guru’s Guide 2008. Download it free.

One of the tracks which may be included in Rick Ross’ upcoming album has been leaked. Titled “Maybach Music Part 2“, the song is another take of “Maybach Music” that appeared in his second studio album “Trilla” (2008).

Download Rick Ross feat T-Pain Lil Wayne & Kanye West – Maybach Music 2 here.

It is no doubt that Twitter is the new ‘in‘ thing and every Tom, Dick, and Harry is online trying to follow people and get people to follow them just to let them all know where it is they’re at, what they’re doing, and what they think of it.

What people don’t understand, from a business stand point, that there’s  etiquette and therefore there are mistakes. Recession-Insurance.com features a post from Rodney Rumford about 7 markering mistake to avoid on Twitter that is really insightful. Check it out.