Business lunches and entertainment, socializing with clients, power lunch information and how-to

Is Breakfast the New Lunch?

Meeting someone for coffee or breakfast at eight o'clock in the morning is a wonderful way to accomplish your relationship-building goals while saving time and money.

Client Lunch as a Christmas Present?

What do you get the person who has everything? My recommendation is to take them to lunch or dinner. The best part of that, (though it is a wee bit selfish), is that you get to enjoy your friends or clients and a great meal, all in the name of Season's Greetings!

The $25,000 Lunch Blunder

Think your behavior at a business lunch doesn't matter? I just read a blog from Joel Comm about a consultant who just lost a $25,000 consulting gig because even though the consultant did the inviting, he failed to pick up the check.

Client Lunches: When You Just Don’t Have the TIME!

DEVOTE ONE DAY A WEEK to meetings "in the city," regardless of where you live. If you work from home, dedicate one day each week to being away from your desk. With the right planning and a smart phone, this can become your most productive day ever!

The POWER of the Platform: Speakers Help Through Motivation

Motivational Speakers and experts in Personal Development have come together once again in The Power of the Platform, an anthology from the Las Vegas Convention Speakers Bureau that features messages of motivation and inspiration from some of the world’s most outstanding speakers. I’m delighted to be a part of this book.

The first book, subtitled Speakers […]

Gitomer Endorses Mealtimes 4 Sales Success

If you are not taking your clients out to lunch, you are missing out on the VERY BEST opportunity to build relationships and close sales.