Independence Day is here, and now we are looking down the barrel of the second half of 2022. It’s halftime if you will; and a perfect time to take a few minutes to look at where we’ve been and where we’re headed!

In a college football game, the coaches take the 15 minutes at halftime to formulate the next 30 minutes of play and so should you.

Alaska-based UnCruise has rolled out the list of itineraries its nine adventure ships will sail from now through spring 2023—and shared with TRO some of the behind-the-scenes changes being instituted to support them.

The roster of 7- to 14-night cruises covers eight destinations in the United States, Latin America, Mexico, and the Galapagos Islands. New for 2022 is the “Wild, Woolly and WOW” seven-night adventure itinerary in the Alaska outback, “which includes hikes, trekking, kayaking and wandering in our guides’ (and CEOs’s) favorite remote locations only accessible by small boat,” marketing director Liz Galloway…

Sales today, regardless of your industry, is more competitive as ever. The old style of selling simply doesn't work today. Buyers, customers, and clients are too smart… too street savvy… too educated to fall for any textbook trick from some fast-talking salesperson “with the “gift of gab.”

On the other hand, people still have needs and will continue to buy goods and services at an unprecedented rate. So, what is one to do if the future of their business relies on finding and serving new customers. Should we learn how to "up-sell?” Overcome objections? Close sales with a vengeance? No, to all three. The answer may be as simple as your first kindergarten lesson in getting along with others. Become more likeable.

This lesson was driven home…