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Survival Tips for Road Warriors

by Dayna on November 3, 2010

For those of us who spend days, weeks, months on the road – standing in security lines, squeezing into too tiny airline seats, eating bad road food, trying to remember what color car we rented, what tonight’s hotel room number is and wondering how long the meeting will go on – I have some suggestions [...]

Customer Service Starts with a Smile

by Dayna on August 17, 2010

Never underestimate the power of the smile in customer service. Not that I encourage this but you can almost get away with a mediocre product, service, meal, anything – when it is served with a smile. My birthday request was simple this year, especially after renting a castle in England last year. All I asked [...]

How do I get a record deal, how do I get into the music business, how do I get a radio station to play my songs? I am always surprised how often I am still asked those questions, even though I have been out of music radio and the music business since my 14 year [...]

Failure is Not an Option

by Dayna on June 15, 2010

When is the last time you tried something new?  Something out of your comfort zone?  Something that might not work but you tried it anyway? I put a friend on the spot the other night at my husband’s retirement party – sort of blindsided her when I asked her to come up and join the [...]

Well Endowed Customer Service

by Dayna on June 6, 2010

Kill’em with kindness.  You get more flies with honey.  Engage the customer. All strange things to be thinking while sitting stage side in the Hustler Club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans but that’s how I think. The first five dancers to hit the main stage starred at a spot on the wall, never smiled [...]

As long as the work gets done, gets done in a timely manner, is quality work and keeps the ledgers on the profit side – do you care where your employees are or when they work?  If so, why? Despite the fact you really couldn’t call what I do “playing golf,”  it is what I [...]

Reposted from original Vollmer Voice post January 8, 2010 Stuff happens.  It just does.  And we all know how these things can really be blown out of proportion and drag on for days, months, sometimes even years.  (Hello Balloon Boy Dad.)  However, if you handle whatever mistake has happened correctly and quickly, the ‘event’ will [...]

2010 Rock Star Advice

by Dayna on January 4, 2010

Two columns caught my attention over the last couple of days. One from New York Times OpEd writer/rock star Bono.  “Ten for the Next Ten.” In his words, the list is “10 ideas that might make the next 10 years more interesting, healthy or civil. Some are trivial, some fundamental. They have little in common [...]

I’m Going Back to College – Hopefully!

by Dayna on December 4, 2009

So what do you do when Campus Activities Magazine names you a Hot Choice for speakers in their Nov/Dec 2009 issue?

Getting the Most from a Conference

by Dayna on October 6, 2009

Despite the travel hassles and the same food across the country at the lunch and/or dinner, a conference is still one of the best ways to keep up with your industry, network with like-minded individuals and form relationships and, open your mind to new ideas and new ways of doing things.