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How a $15 bet won a client for life! (Video)
In this video, Bob Gray shares his experience with a vendor who offered to save him a $15 delivery charge if he could say a long word backwards. This skill is one for which he is in the Guinness Book of Records. The vendor’s personalized approach, including visiting Bob’s website and tailoring the email, made…
Mental Fitness Over 50: How to Keep Your Memory Sharp
Memory Tips for us ‘Older’ Professionals Recently, I had the privilege of speaking at an event filled with many experienced ‘older’ professionals, like myself, who’ve spent decades building their careers and accumulating a wealth of knowledge. As with every presentation I give, as I finished, several attendees approached me with questions and concerns about Alzheimer’s…
Better memory better sales (VIDEO)
Better memory better sales. How often have you attended a networking event and you bump into someone you’ve met before and you cannot remember a thing about them? Imagine the impact you could have on your business and your sales if you could walk into a networking event and recall the names of everyone…
Digital Amnesia
Bob’s latest Keynote Presentation: Digital Amnesia How Technology is Stealing Your Brain…and how to steal it back! Digital Amnesia: The experience of forgetting something important because you trust a connected device! Since we’ve been able to place more memory power in the palm of our hand than was used to land a man on the…
A Quick Math Problem
Our brains lie to us Your brain doesn’t always tell you the truth, it often lies to you. Answer this problem quickly. A coffee and a cookie together cost $1.10. The coffee cost $1 more than the cookie. How much does the coffee cost? Most people say $1, which is wrong. The coffee costs $1.05…
Client Customization
Client Customization Memory Demo Here I show a customized ending to a keynote for my Australian client. One of my biggest challenges when I keynote is convincing the audience that I do NOT have an innate ability to remember things, it is not a ‘natural’ ability…it is an application of systems that ANYONE can learn,…
Customer Service: How Speaking Backwards Saved me $15
This unexpected customer service took me by surprise. After delivering a recent keynote presentation, I decided to send the client a gift basket to say thanks. I looked up a company in Ottawa and chose a gift. The next day I received an email with my invoice and this note attached: Dear Bob, Thank you for your order….
The 10% Brain Myth
Do we use only 10% of our Brain? Ask the average person what percentage of our brain we use and the majority will say 10%, very few will say we use 100%, which would be the correct answer. Imaging methods have shown that even simple tasks produce activity throughout the whole brain. So where did…
What You Need To Know About Brain Games
Do They Help With Dementia? What you need to know about Brain Games is quite disheartening. A popular Brain Training company was fined $2M in 2016 for deceptive advertising, claiming amongst other things that their Brain Games could help stave off memory loss, Dementia and even Alzheimer’s. But it turns out they have…
Ever had the odd Senior Moment?
Forget about it! For those of us in our 50’s or older, here’s a question. When you were in high school or university and you forgot something, did you ever say, ‘Oh dear, another university senior moment’? Of course you didn’t, you probably just brushed it off without as much as a second thought….