Marketing Consultant Dan Grandstaff recently spoke to Triangle Business Leaders on How to Sell Without Selling. He offered these tips:

What are the areas of our businesses that could potentially suffer from a “snow day” effect … events that could delay or stop revenue for a period of time? Maybe these are events that happen so rarely that it doesn’t make sense to have a full contingency plan in place. Maybe it’s something that you could never expect, such as an abrupt change in your industry or sudden legal or PR changes involving your product or service.

Well, I actually did it. I lived up to my promise last month to launch a newsletter for Triangle Business Leaders, the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Cary Chapter of the Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle. The January edition is four pages packed with marketing and business building advice, and it contains important information about our new location.

A high school football team from Arkansas is turning long-held beliefs about football strategy upside down. They never punt. This unconventional strategy can be applied to your business, too.