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Seth On Tribes

Jeffrey Summers — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:10:53 +0000

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-04

Jeffrey Summers — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:59:59 +0000

@problogger Didn’t Seth want to get rid of resumes? #

Thank You

Jeffrey Summers — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:12:08 +0000

Thanks to; every client who allowed me to help them make 2008 a banner year. everyone who read, agreed, argued and contributed to all of our forums and the ideas behind them. Ben, Kevin, Lu, David and Joe for all your help, support and hard work. Bill and Roy for your inspiration, perspiration and friendship. Alan for being my Coach, [...]

2008 In Review

Jeffrey Summers — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:55:49 +0000

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Jeffrey Summers — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:09:58 +0000

Hopefully you realize on this day in which we celebrate the birth of Jesus, that your response to the situations you find yourself in determines only your degree of success - not your level of failure. You truly must believe that you never lose if you take something from each encounter and use it to [...]

On How Happiness And Money Are Related

Jeffrey Summers — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:20:27 +0000

Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces. Dan’s talk also will help you understand a few pricing strategies I have been trying to [...]

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

Jeffrey Summers — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:26:42 +0000

Strategic Thinking for Tomorrow’s Restaurant Business Operators Today

Jeffrey Summers — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:18:43 +0000

We can disagree about when things started to go wrong, but the one thing we can all agree on is that the way you perceive and think about your business, needs to change if you are to either start, or continue to build success long term. The days of “you build it and they will [...]

RCS Goes Mobile

Jeffrey Summers — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:12:24 +0000

Now all you have to do if you’re on the go and still want to keep up with RCS blogposts, just point your PDA or cell phone’s browser to your favorite category feed and you can read every post, get motivated, get energized, get informed and just generally be smarter than all of your friends! To [...]

Finding Great Talent

Jeffrey Summers — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:20:04 +0000

Finding great talent is itself a great talent. And over the course of working with literally hundreds of clients in the past year, it became very clear to me that I had realized an even greater need to help operators find great talent. So I have launched a new service at RCS to do just [...]

5.75 Questions You’ve Been Avoiding

Jeffrey Summers — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:49:25 +0000

Don’t Forget To Have Fun!

Jeffrey Summers — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:39:21 +0000

My Favorite YouTube Christmas Video

Jeffrey Summers — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:38:23 +0000

Driving Guest Loyalty In An Economic Downturn

Jeffrey Summers — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:08:03 +0000

Yeah, yeah, another article about the same stuff to do in a down economy. Not really. I’m as fed up with them as you are - trust me, probably a lot more since they really don’t address anything that really matters. But this time I was reading, “The Importance of the Customer Experience in a [...]

Reader’s Questions

Jeffrey Summers — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:47:14 +0000

QUESTION: Our company has opened frozen and read to eat meat products in various parts of the town. Please advice how to increase the sales, we are doing local store marketing by distributing menu flyer in the shopping mall and to the surrounding area. We have ace quality products……………I am training my staff to upsell……………..how [...]

Is Restaurant Marketing Broken?

Jeffrey Summers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:11:59 +0000

A colleague asked this question in one of our forums recently and it has been haunting me ever since. So I must get this out. Is restaurant marketing broken? - Yes What exactly is it that’s broken? 1. The understanding of what works and what doesn’t work for restaurants. Retail strategies do not work. Most of everything I [...]

More Effective Restaurant Marketing

Jeffrey Summers — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:55:07 +0000

Yes there is a silver lining to every cloud! Everyone is cutting back on their advertising (most think falsely that advertising is marketing). Because there is a lack of advertisers, the cost of advertising, across all channels, is rapidly falling. If you have a marketing message that is relevant (something more than the next, great value deal!) there [...]

Happy Thanksgiving To All

Jeffrey Summers — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:27:25 +0000

Roy W. MacNaughton

Jeffrey Summers — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:44:40 +0000

My friend Roy MacNaughton passed away suddenly over the weekend. Roy truly was “Really Cool People”. He has been my grounding force since we became friends years ago. We wrote together, talked together, laughed together, argued together and generally shared our lives, both offline and online. I am a better person for having met and [...]

Lowest Common Denominator Thinking

Jeffrey Summers — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:26:02 +0000

Well I tried. I gave it my best shot. I joined several industry social websites over the last year, not in any overt effort to make more money ( I don’t do the hard sell) but rather to try and insert a deeper and more intellectually honest way of thinking about the business. It has been, [...]