RISK. The future of streaming video – four predictions for 2013. Last week’s multi-year licensing agreement bombshell between Disney and Netflix was a capper to an already dynamic year for streaming media. Clearly we’re at an exciting crossroads, fueled by “make-ups and break-ups” that constantly reshape the industry. Given the activity of the last four quarters, here are a few things to look for in 2013. Globalization of professional content The act of taking premium content across borders to reach new audiences has proven to be a boon: It generates meaningful incremental digital dollars through subscription services; it legitimizes a content experience that previously had been dominated by online piracy; and it builds momentum for content and brand equity for the coming years.
Ironically, it is the home market that sometimes moves the slowest. Monetization via subscription Subscription will continue to be the dominant business model. What hasn’t changed is the demand for professionally produced content, which still costs just as much to create. Ten Ways Your Mind is Smacking You Around. Seriously. Feeling sad? Cheer up! Ugh. Check out meditation...that is the how. Bottom line: take time out to observe these thoughts and see them for what they are—just thoughts.
Meditation will quiet these thoughts—temporarily—and keep you "centered. " The thoughts will always be there because it is our biology, but with practice you will find quieting them will come easier because you will become desensitized to them, accepting them for what they are. Some will argue BS! Check out "One-Moment Meditation: How to Meditate in a Moment" to get started... Yeah, and putting it off only means that it takes longer when something seriously bothersome does come up.
To Achieve Career Goals, Stop Planning and Start Preparing. Taking your leadership from panicked to purposeful. When we’re confronted by sudden changes and limited resources, we often get hyperactive. We tend to go faster and faster and do more and more. But what’s needed to approach complexities is restraint. Are we stepping back enough? We should spend 15 to 20 percent of the time reflecting. The Pause Principle is looking at your challenges through reflection and synthesizing a path forward. In my book, I focus on three critical growth areas: personal leadership, generativity and fostering cultures of innovation.
What do you mean by generativity? At its core, generativity is the impulse of a leader to equip people in order for them to exceed the leader. How do the most effective leaders coach and grow their teams? Leadership is so much about motivation and inspiration. As a leader, you can spend so much time caring for the team that you forget about yourself. One of the real differences between good and great leaders is a level of self-awareness. Who are your leadership role models? Read more: When everyone has access to the same tools. Confusing lucky with good. EXPLORE. 12 Surprising Signs You Could Be an Entrepreneur. Almost every article ever written about entrepreneurship suggests that it's not for everyone. And yet the articles go on to list attributes that many successful people possess as the traits commonly associated with great entrepreneurs, such as a strong work ethic, persistence, persuasiveness and discipline.
For 25 years, I have studied entrepreneurs and discovered that what contributed to their incredible success was not what society typically considers assets. People like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Oprah Winfrey didn't achieve greatness by possessing the traits and following the narrow path recommended by management gurus. So, don't believe everything others say about you or how they label you. 1. 2. Related: 6 Tips for Staying Supercharged 3. 4. 5. 6.
Related: How to Stop Over Thinking and Get Things Done 7. 8. 9. Related: How to Harness Your Brain's Secret Efficiency 10. 11. 12. The author is an Entrepreneur contributor. The Importance of Helping Other People and More Top Tips. A roundup of the best tips of the week from Entrepreneur.com. If you want to achieve your goals, help others achieve theirs.
Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, who died Wednesday, did just that, reportedly traveling more than five million miles in his career and touching a quarter of a billion lives. Fortunately for us, he left behind a lot of sound advice. "You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want," Ziglar famously said. Form personal connections with customers. Find partners to grow your business. Don't let your annoyance with angry customers show. Set long-term goals to overcome adversity. Brian Patrick Eha is a freelance journalist and former assistant editor at Entrepreneur.com. 4 Ways to Build a Culture of Innovation at Your Startup. How to position your business for innovation may not be your top start-up question, but it should be. Giant brands like the tech-titan Google and the ad-powerhouse Ogilvy & Mather are shifting the way they conduct business -- and their experiences are providing valuable lessons for smaller ventures on how to grow.
Executives at these companies, as well as the branding agencies SapientNitroand Edge Collective, recently shared tips with businesses on how to keep ahead of the competition at a symposium in New York City called ExpandMyBrand. Here are four ways the execs suggest to foster innovation: Executives from Google, Ogilvy & Mather as well as SapientNitro offer up tips on creating more collaborative work environments to increase creativity. 1. Ogilvy’s RedWorks division, for instance, harnesses a global network of production and design teams who work in both traditional and digital media. 2. Yet he hasn’t given up. 3. 4. How do you spur innovation at your company? Your answer to this question, will tell you in advance how 2013 will look for your business! The opportunities in front of you today are amazing. You have the tools to: Get a targeted message in front of your ideal profile of client, in seconds, with their full permission.Create a blog, which will allow you to build a massively valuable community around your business, with limitless potential.Build and nurture a targeted network of wonderful people, who you can connect with daily through social networks.Develop a newsletter and grow an extraordinarily valuable reader community, which grows in value every single day.Increase the conversion rates of all your marketing and sales activities.Attract more word of mouth referrals in a week, than used to be possible in a year.
What are you going to do with it? The big question right now, is; what are you going to do with all that potential? The final weeks of 2012 offer you an amazing opportunity, to lay the foundations of what could be your best year ever in 2013. Cause and effect If you are ready to take control, I’ve got you covered. IMPORTANT: What you need to know about Skills and Strategy! If you want to see massively better results in your business and achieve more progress than ever before, you will find today’s post extremely useful. The Skills / Strategy challenge One of the reasons small business owners often work hard, for too little reward, is that they confuse skills with strategy. The difference was summed up brilliantly by Jim Rohn: Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy.
In my experience, when it comes to marketing, most small business owners score well on skills and poorly on strategy. Right skills, wrong strategy Unaware that their lack of an effective strategy is losing them a fortune, they carry on doing the right things, incorrectly. Some extremely common examples: Here’s the thing: Very, very few small business owners have an effective strategy for any of their marketing. Get strategic Einstein once said that insanity was repeating the same task, and expecting different results. Non-profits have a charter to be innovators. The biggest, best-funded non profits have an obligation to be leaders in innovation, but sometimes they hesitate.
One reason: "We're doing important work. Our funders count on us to be reasonable and cautious and proven, because the work we're doing is too important to risk failure. " One alternative: "We're doing important work. Our funders count on us to be daring and bold and brave, because the work we're doing is too important to play it safe. " The thing about most cause/welfare non-profits is that they haven't figured out how to solve the problem they're working on (yet). The magic of their status is that no one is expecting a check back, or a quarterly dividend.
Go fail. Anticipation vs. anxiety. EXECUTION. 12 Most Uplifting Words and Phrases to Keep Handy and Ready to Use. This post follows the one I wrote about the 12 most self-defeating phrases to toss out for good. If you’re going to banish the put-downs that creep into your head, it helps to have handy some productive, encouraging thoughts to use instead — things to tell yourself that help you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep on going. I’m going to call these suggestions the Stalwart’s Self-talk Script. 1. “We’re all learning” Give yourself a break when you make a mistake, especially when getting the hang of something. 2. My family has found a program that has given us incredible insight about, and support with, managing the ups and downs of raising a child with ADHD. 3.
When you tell yourself this, it’s like being both the athlete and the sports fan. 4. Strong. 5. We live in a society that expects quick results. 6. You almost certainly accomplish many, many things on most days. 7. Celebrate mini-achievements when you feel overwhelmed about a looming deadline. 8. 9. 10. Of course you are. Productivity Tips: How to Make Changes in Your Business, Career, or Health. If you're really not happy with some aspect of your life--your business, your career, your productivity, your health--the thought of making all the changes necessary to change your situation can seem overwhelming. You'll never finish... so what's the point of even starting? Sometimes all it takes is picking one thing, one small thing, and doing it.
Success is rarely overnight; success is the result of a series of small, incremental steps. So forget the long-term. Forget the end result or the exit strategy. Forget the rest of the list. Just pick one thing to do--one tangible, measurable, goal-oriented thing--and do it. While you can't overcome every problem right away, you can accomplish one thing. Here are some examples: 1. Spend 20 minutes a day making connections. Just make sure your 20 minutes are focused entirely on giving, not receiving. 2. Overcome your Pavlovian response to incoming email and commit to only taking glancing at your inbox three times; say at 8, noon, and 5. 3. 4. 5.
How to Be More Charismatic: 10 Tips. Some people instantly make us feel important. Some people instantly make us feel special. Some people light up a room just by walking in. We can't always define it, but some people have it: They're naturally charismatic. Unfortunately, natural charisma quickly loses its impact. Familiarity breeds, well, familiarity. But some people are remarkably charismatic: They build and maintain great relationships, consistently influence (in a good way) the people around them, consistently make people feel better about themselves--they're the kind of people everyone wants to be around...and wants to be.
Fortunately we can, because being remarkably charismatic isn't about our level of success or our presentation skills or how we dress or the image we project--it's about what we do. Here are the 10 habits of remarkably charismatic people: 1. Ask questions. That's all it takes to show the other person they're important. Then when you do speak, don't offer advice unless you're asked. Don't believe me? 2. 3. Recovery Slogans. Jim's Marketing Blog. By Jim Connolly There’s a lot of wisdom in this wonderful, old saying: It’s not what life throws at you that determines your results – it’s what you do with it that counts. The setting of your sail Jim Rohn used to talk about the importance of setting your sail correctly. The winds of change, both positive and negative, blow the same for everyone in your profession or industry.
A minority will set their sail correctly. Most will just carry on and hope things improve. Lucky? I was prompted to write about this today, as I am currently working with my clients on setting their sail, so they can go into 2013 with confidence. I spoke with a client of mine yesterday morning, who managed to increase her fees by around 350% and earn a bigger share of the marketplace, whilst her industry is in free-fall. Setting your sail or hoping things will improve? The way you set your sail as you prepare for 2013, will determine whether the economy works for you or against you. Read in browser »
Accepting small promises. CREATIVITY. Effortless. The Skills Most Leaders Don't Have. We've all heard about hard skills and soft skills. Those aren't the ones that trip up leaders. For too long, we’ve thought of “hard skills” and “soft skills” as mutually exclusive. Hard skills are supposed to provide the value, and soft skills supposed to be subordinate, inferior, and all about feelings. Some frameworks of leadership reinforce this myth by encouraging positioning leaders as above the group and magically removed from doubt and anxiety. In reality, there is nothing “soft” about the skills needed to relate to people well enough to lead them. True leadership involves both hard skills and harder skills. Here’s what I mean.
Defining Hard and Soft Skills “Hard skills” are often thought of as the occupational skills necessary to complete the tangible elements of a job. “Soft skills” can be seen as the behavioral ways in which people go about their occupational tasks. Hard skills can get the job done. Leadership’s Hard and Soft Skills Leadership’s Harder Skills 1. 2. 3. Eight Things Remarkably Successful People Do.
I'm fortunate to know a number of remarkably successful people. I've described how these people share a set of specific perspectives and beliefs. They also share a number of habits: 1. They don't create back-up plans. Back-up plans can help you sleep easier at night. You'll work a lot harder and a lot longer if your primary plan simply has to work because there is no other option. If somehow the worst does happen (and the "worst" is never as bad as you think) trust that you will find a way to rebound. 2.
You can be good with a little effort. But you can't be great--at anything--unless you put in an incredible amount of focused effort. Scratch the surface of any person with rare skills and you'll find a person who has put thousands of hours of effort into developing those skills. There are no shortcuts. So start doing the work now. 3. ...and they work a lot more. Forget the Sheryl Sandberg "I leave every day at 5:30" stories. Better yet, they want to put in lots of time. 4. 5. 7. 8. To fail. 8 Qualities of Fearless Entrepreneurs. Why Everyone Will Have To Become An Entrepreneur (Crowd Sourced Version.) The best way to get unstuck. Q&A with Robert C. Pozen, author of ‘Extreme Productivity’ I know what you should do. TEDxBloomington - Shawn Achor - "The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance"
Find Your Purpose: 5 Helpful Exercises - Adventure Sauce. DRIVEN. How to Work from Your Strengths. 5 Reasons People Fail (& What to Do Instead) The Power of Small Moments. The end of should. Forum Assists Would-be Entrepreneurs. Income Diversity for Uncertain Times. Would You Rather Spend Less or Earn More? Earning Extra Income: What Do You Know? 3 Things You Can Do From Home for Additional Income. Are You Living Out Your Dreams? "Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations," by Chris Berdik - Author Talk. Maintaining a Work-Life Balance: 5 Tips from Entrepreneurs.
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