I will be speaking at the Chicago ENG/Executive Networking Group meeting on Thursday, May 12. I have spoken to this group many times and it is a favorite venue for me. (See www.engchgo.org for meeting details). ENG is the premier senior executive networking group in the country. I hope to see you there if you can attend.

This should help a bit if you are having trouble creating breakthrough letters to influence your CEO and headhunter prospects. (If you are not having trouble--If you already know everything you need to know about letter writing, for example--you are already a professional copywriter and I cannot teach you anything about wordsmithing. But, wait a minute--I AM a copywriter. I've written hundreds of these letters over the past thirty years and they give ME plenty of trouble. PLENTY. Maybe we should trade places. Or, you should teach me. Or, maybe I don't know what I'm writing about).

(Why should you believe me about any of this? This is not an abstraction for me--Hundreds of executives have paid me several $millions over the past thirty years to write breakthrough letters for them. Want to see some of those letters and what worked? Keep reading and I'll have a suggestion on how you can do that).

And, don't look back. A little panic will surely help. Network even a little harder--Your next position is surely only a telephone call away, right? If your networking isn't working, you're not running fast enough.

Every once in a while, the talk show hosts come up with something that is so persuasive it's worth passing along. In case you missed it, Neal Boortz had a great idea today--