Dear readers, I have not forgotten about you, but with our European Regional Meeting fast approaching, I’ve been concentrating on those details and not on my blogging.  However, I have been reading some excellent posts from colleagues recently, which I wanted to share with you.  So grab a cup of coffee and take a read!

Over at Nancy Myrland’s Myrland Marketing, she’s been talking about some important messages:

• In "Sales is Not a Dirty Word," Nancy reminds us to be our "client’s advisor, their mentor, their solution to a problem, and sometimes even their friend." 
   
• In "You Are Who You Are. I Am Who I Am," she addresses a lot of the recent bashing we’ve seen by blog commenters and people on Twitter and encourages us all to embrace each other’s differences with a little respect – great message.

At the Legal Watercooler, Heather Morse has been using Mad Men to teach some valuable lessons about legal marketing – even if you’re not a Mad Men viewer (which I’m not, but I love a series that connects television with business), her posts offer great points:

• In "Mad Men, Lawyers, and Legal Marketing," Heather advises lawyers that it’s "YOUR job to turn YOUR success into new BUSINESS," just as senior partner Bertram Cooper from Mad Men tells Don Draper "Turning creative success into business is your work."  
   
• In "Mad Men, Lawyers, and Client Relations," she points out that we’re all a personality type and "By better understanding how we personally process and receive information, and by learning how to identify how others do the same, we best communicate and work with one another."

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