New Site - www.AriesTech.com

July 2nd, 2009

I am delighted to announce the launch of the new site of Aries Technology Group, located in Knoxville, TN. Positioned as a software, technology and consulting firm, Aries Technology helps create wealth for their customers. John Shaver, president and founder, is a strong believer in achieving effective business results and his customers’ testimonials are a powerful indication of such.

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Testimonial from Dr. Alan Weiss

July 1st, 2009

Below is a powerful video testimonial I’ve been fortunate to get from Alan Weiss, which is something you should consider doing with your clients.

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Chad Barr Interviews Dr. Pat Lynch

June 30th, 2009

In this podcast, Internet strategy guru Chad Barr interviews Dr. Pat Lynch, the president of Business Alignment Strategies, Inc. In this interview we cover topics including appreciative inquiry, the biggest obstacles executives face, things the best companies do well, accountability, and Team in Training, the fundraising arm of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

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and now also on iTunes

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Blog Anywhere Anytime

June 27th, 2009

If you have an iPhone and a blog I recommend you purchase the BlogPress app from iTunes. It is a great application which will enable you to post directly to your blog from your iPhone. So now there should be no excuses for you or for me to post such interesting threads which I am doing from my iPhone right now. The landscape keyboard and cut, copy and paste which I use for my signature below are awesome additions as well.

And attaching photos is a piece of cake. Even my dog Noodles agrees since you can see him wagging his tail.

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What’s In a Name?

June 27th, 2009

My wife and I just went to Moxie which is one of our favorite restaurants in the area. We noticed a new item on the menu, the Mediterranean Sea Bass which was highly recommended by our waiter. It was an outstanding dish we both agreed. When chatting with the waiter and commenting on his superb recommendation he said: “You know, when we had it on the menu as the Bronzini Fish, we could not sell any. So we’ve changed the name to the Mediterranean Sea Bass and we can’t keep enough in stock.”

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What’s Your Website Saying About You?

June 26th, 2009

The power of the internet is that it is ubiquitous – which can be a good thing if you are maximizing what your website says about you and your business. Does yours reflect Walking your Talk and Talking your Walk?

Often times during my seminars I ask for volunteers to allow me to demonstrate their sites effectiveness. Most cringe and avoid any eye contact with me. You can almost read them silently say: “please, not my site.” In fact, that may be just the reason why many become our clients since they know that they need to invest in getting their talk and walk in sync.

Your Walk is who you are, what you do, how you do it, why you do it and so forth. It is the action you convey. By being aware of what messages you are sending through your actions, you can adjust them in order to align them so that what you do also tells your customers how your products and services meet and/or exceed their needs and wants.

Your Talk is what you say, the language, that connects you and your customers with what you can do for them. One of the most powerful ways to talk about your business today is through your website so that it says what it needs to say and how it needs to say it. The quality of your website speaks volumes about your business through your powerful language, audio, video and visual messages. Another and probably even more powerful ways of talking about your business, is to let your customers do that through testimonials and commentary.

Here are a few tips to help you analyze both Your Walk and Your Talk online and offline. Go through each of the tips and individually consider Your Walk; and then repeat it with analyzing Your Talk. Make a list of action steps you can take to get them in sync so that your online and offline walk as well as your online and offline talk are synchronized through and through.

  1. Is your value proposition (VP), which defines how your clients are better off by virtue of working with you, prominently displayed on your home page? What sections of your site demonstrate and prove your value proposition? If your VP talks about dramatic growth of your clients, you should incorporate testimonials and articles demonstrating and explaining such growth for you and your clients.

  2. What is your vision and mission statement and how does your site substantiate them? A client investing six-figure investment with us shared with me that he felt we have similar philosophy. When I asked him to articulate further he said that it was based on similar vision and mission statements that he read on our web site.

  3. Are you using effective language to increase credibility through your clients’ list, testimonials, case studies, client results and your intellectual property and expertise? Do your articles show examples and how-to tips based on successful track record with your clients?

  4. Who is your audience and what is your market and what are the products and services that may greatly benefit them? Are you constantly adding new such products and services and receiving happy clients’ testimonials that are displayed on your site?

By refining and aligning what your website is saying about you and your business, not only will you eliminate the cringe, but you may find that you are finally proud for the whole world to see it.

© Chad Barr 2009. All rights reserved.

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I’ve Been Away for Quite Some Time. I’m Back

June 26th, 2009

This is one of my favorite lines from the fabulous movie Awakenings, featuring Robert De Niro. And I am glad to report that although and thankfully for a different reason but I am back. The past several months have been very exciting for me personally and for our organization with many outstanding clients’ projects and personal growth projects, but more on that later on. In the mean time, thank you for tuning in and here comes my next post.

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High Holidays - Music Selection (16 - 19)

October 10th, 2008

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icon for podpress  Veal Kulam [2:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Sim Shalom [3:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Shema Koleinu [5:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Kee Anu Amecha [1:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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High Holidays - Music Selection (11 - 15)

October 10th, 2008

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icon for podpress  Yom Hadin [3:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Et G'zar [4:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Nekadesh [1:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Ata Berachtanu [0:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Retse [2:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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High Holidays - Music Selection (6 - 10)

October 10th, 2008

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icon for podpress  Ruach Elohim [1:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Kol Nidrei [10:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Modim [1:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Shalom Rav (2) [1:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Yiyu Leratson [1:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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