Eight years and 8 days ago today, I published my first blog article.

Sun Tzu was a 6th century BCE Chinese general, military strategist, and author of The Art of War.

You may remember that I strongly suggest that you comment on blogs. Here's an example of what can happen.

We saw The Wolf of Wall Street today. It's so hard not to write about that, but honestly, marketers and prudes should not see the movie because they won't get it and even salespeople won't get it if they aren't comfortable in their own skin. If you haven't seen it yet and you're not sure if you should, read Overcoming Distrust in Sales and the article on The American Hustle. Then go see The Wolf of Wall Street.

As you probably know, I'm out and about, but I don't look for speaking gigs. I look for interesting conversations in the blogosphere and chime in if so moved. I found several conversations this month. Enjoy!

And if you know someone that's looking for a big March, share the offer at the bottom of the page (or even the whole page?) with them.

I absolutely guaranty that you will think, "Rick is a sick puppy!" at the end of this post, but please don't miss the lesson and the resource.

What does your pipeline look like?

Last week, I read Kimberley Darling's article on the Hubspot blog. For some reason, as I read the opening paragraphs, I was reminded of a lesson from my mentor 35-ish years ago. Here's the story.