I just got back from a conference where we were encouraged to create new and different approaches to accomplish our goals.

One thing we learned is that to create a strong brand, it’s helpful to have your own unique word. Given my love of quotes and my love of coaching, I came up with the word quotching, which is simply coaching through the use of powerful and inspiring quotes.

I have registered the domain www.quotching.com and will be creating a site there.

Your Help Needed!

The Quotable Coach currently has over 600 subscribers, but I want to get these 30-second nuggets of inspiration and motivation out there for an even larger audience.

If you were me, what creative, innovate, or novel approaches would you use to bring these 250+ quotes (so far) to more people?

Please leave a comment below to let me know your ideas.

Recently, I was interviewed by Scott Foster from the Troy Chamber of Commerce (where I serve as a member of the Board of Directors).

In the video, you’ll find out:

• What my dream job would be … if I wasn’t a coach.
• What my favorite quote is, and what it means to me.
• How I started my first business at the age of eleven.
• Why I left a Fortune 500 company to become a coach, 19 years ago.

A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by Diane Cashin on her radio show, Creating Velocity in Your Life. We spoke about building quality relationships, and covered:

• Building relationships at events and using “preferral” meetings
• When to give business cards … and when not to
• Listening fully to others and allowing them to fully express themselves
• Social capital, and using a contact management system to help with this
• How best to use LinkedIn (and other social media) to maintain relationships

You can visit my Podcasts page to listen to the recording of my segment of the show.

At 7pm EST today, I’ll be a guest on Diane Cashin’s Radio Show “Creating Velocity in Your Life.” Cynthia de Lorenzie, CEO of Success in the City, and Gale Paige, a female veteran, will be guests also.

Join the four of us as we explore the power of developing your networking strategy to achieve your goals.

We will be discussing:

• Defining “relationships with a purpose”
• Making time to meet with your leaders, mentors and peers
• Leveraging your network for mutual benefit
• Becoming a thought leader by using the power of social networking

At 7pm EST today (Tuesday 9th October), you can:

• Join the discussion live by calling 347-989-8996
• Join us online here:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/creating-velocity-in-your-life/2012/10/09/creating-velocity-by-developing-relationships-with-a-purpose-1

Back in July, I announced that my project The Quotable Coach had passed the 50 quote mark.

Today, The Quotable Coach has reached the 100 quote milestone. Each Monday through Friday, over 300 people just like you receive:

• A quote, related to business or life
• A short commentary, to draw out a particular theme from the quote
• An exercise, to help you apply the quote to your own life

A week after being sent out by email, the quotes are published on The Quotable Coach website. Why not take a look at some of them now?

If you enjoy reading them, consider signing up to receive quotes by email (in the website’s sidebar) so that you get future quotes directly into your mailbox. That way, you can easily save them, print them, and share them with others.

If you weren’t able to listen to my interview with Doug Gfeller live last week, on OC Talk Radio, you haven’t missed out.

Doug has posted a recording of the interview on his Podbean site, This Week on The Coaching Perspective.

We discussed:

• My project The Quotable Coach
• How I customize my coaching programs for different client groups
• Why I give away so much material (through The Quotable Coach and my workbooks)

Click here to find out more, and to listen to the recording.

Later today, I’ll be interviewed by Doug Gfeller of OC Talk Radio about The Quotable Coach. You can listen in here at OC Talk Radio, 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific.

If you haven’t heard about my project The Quotable Coach before, you may want to take a look at the website and join the mailing list. Make sure you listen live today, to hear all about it too.

If you’re a coach yourself, you’ll definitely want to listen in. I’ll also be talking with Doug about my business practices: how I customize my coaching programs for a variety of client groups, and why I give away so much material (including the quotes, and my workbooks).

Here’s the link again, so that you can listen in today at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific:

OC Talk Radio

I am delighted to announce that my new project The Quotable Coach is going very well. We’ve now sent out over 50 quotes by email – with many more in the pipeline.

When you join the email list (completely free), you’ll receive an email every weekday with:

• A quote, usually from a famous individual
• A short commentary, to draw out a particular theme from the quote
• An exercise to help you apply the quote to your own life

Each email is designed to take under a minute to read. The emails arrive at 7.30am Eastern time, so that you can start off your day with a few moments of quiet thought and reflection.

A week after being sent out by email, the quotes are published on The Quotable Coach website: why not browse through them now? If you like what you see, you can join the email list instantly by entering your details in the sidebar of the site.

Click the play button to listen to me speaking about my newest project, The Quotable Coach. This is an excerpt from my recent appearance on The Coaching Show with host Christopher McAuliffe. The audio lasts 1.35 minutes. If you prefer, you can read the transcript below instead.

Christopher: Let’s talk about a new project you’ve got going, called The Quotable Coach.

Barry: Well, that’s a pet project of mine. I actually purchased the domains TheQuotableCoach.com and QuotableCoach.com three years ago, because I intended to write the great American novel. Unfortunately my busy schedule prevented me from really digging in, but for the better part of the last 8 – 10 years, I have collected quotes and I probably have 5,000 to 10,000 of them.

I consider them brilliant pearls of wisdom. I love to read them because they’re quick nuggets – and I think that’s the way people are getting information these days, in little bite-sized chunks. I like to savor them, think about them, and go a little deeper.

So my thought was, maybe I could take some of the best and brightest minds of today and yesterday and critique and dig into some of those quotes in a way that might be relevant and useable today, and give the reader an exercise to take that idea and that concept into their life. That’s what I’ve been doing. TheQuotableCoach.com just went up this past week and I’ll be trying to get something up there every single day, Monday through Friday.

Christopher: Great. And you’re not just giving us the quote – which is useful in itself – but also a little anecdote, a place to look, something like that.

Barry: Exactly.

If you’d like to receive a daily quote (with a short commentary and exercise to help you dig in) then you sign up for free emails by putting your email address in the sidebar at The Quotable Coach.

All three of my workbooks are now available in .mobi and .epub form (for your Kindle, iPad, or other e-reader device or tablet) as well as .pdf.

The three workbooks are:

Masterful Relationships

This workbook teaches you how to:

• Listen actively – so that you get the most from conversations, and make other people feel valued
• Lead and coach others – help your employees to grow and achieve their full potential
• Gain trust – from your clients, colleagues, and new contacts

Masterful Networking

This workbook teaches you how to:

• Prepare effectively for networking events, so that you can make the most of your time there
• Make the most of your new contacts by following up after a conversation
• Improve your networking habits and make networking a key part of your business

Time Management Strategies and Tactics

This workbook teaches you how to:

• Work with your natural rhythm, not against it, and improve your energy levels
• Deal with calls and meetings – elements that often interrupt your day
• Keep up your motivation and maintain your enthusiasm and energy for your work

To download these free workbooks, just enter your first name and email address in the sidebar to the right. You’ll also receive new workbooks that I produce, as soon as they become available.