Internet Home Business For Moms SpencerJohnson.com 10 Steps From Idea To Business : Lifestyle Building a startup doesn't come with an instruction manual. That's why David Ronick created this startup road map. June 09, 2011 Some of the most important things in life don’t come with instruction manuals: homes, spouses, kids and startups are a few. 1. Pick an idea that fits your passions, goals, strengths, resources and tolerance for risk. 2. Evaluate the opportunity like an investor would—in an objective, thorough, analytical way. 3. Find people who know the market, the business model, the competitors and predecessors—people who have been there, done that, and can help you understand what works and what doesn’t in the real world. 4. Make any necessary changes to your business plan, product, and go-to-market strategy. 5. When you envision the product or service you ultimately want to offer, it probably has a slick design and a full set of features. 6. It’s tempting to wait until your product is “perfect” to start selling it. 7. 8. 9. 10. Read this article at: Inc.com.
How to Create a Technology Based Company Brad Sugars' Free Business ebooks- Business ebooks Easy Ways to Improve Your Results with Twitter If you’re feeling overwhelmed by Twitter, following are some tips to improve engagement with your audience. Twitter news feeds move quickly when you’re following a lot of people. Get in the habit of scheduling posts on Twitter. Share new content on Twitter as often as possible. Leave room for others to retweet your posts. Follow those who follow you. Respond to those who reach out to you or share your content. Retweet often. Fall in love with Twitter.
Business Blog Rankings From Wikio – Sneak Peek! On the 5th of every month, Wikio.com publishes its updated ranking of blogs, in various categories, including business blogs. This month they gave us a sneak peek at the new rankings for the Business Blog category. For blog rankings, Wikio takes into account the number of tweets and the weight and number of other sites linking to the blogs, among other things. As a result, Wikio generates an up-to-date blog ranking and the Wikio Blog Ranking makes it a place to find blogs to scope out. Thanks to you, dear readers, we were delighted to see that Small Business Trends experienced a nice leap forward in the Wikio Rankings for business blogs and now stands in the top 15 business blogs. Below you will find an early “sneak peek” preview of the very latest list of Wikio’s Top Business Blog Rankings, that is coming out officially tomorrow (May 5, 2011): Ranking from Wikio While you’re at it, you might also want to explore the rest of Wikio.
Blog growth, balance & street smarts | Fastgrowth Advisors - Business Advisors It worked for them. Will it work for me? April 17th, 2012 During a recent meeting, I was asked about an early viral video campaign I developed way back in 2006. Marketing discussions should never start with execution. Street Fighting Strategy January 11th, 2012 [excerpt from our ebook, The 13 Deadly Sins of Marketing] On the mean streets of marketing, where thugs lurk in every alley and aisle, your choices are few. What’s Your Innovation Sweet Spot? January 9th, 2012 It is fashionable among innovation writers to scorn Sustaining Innovation (what this blog calls Organic Growth) – the kind of incremental product changes that allow ads to scream “New! We have argued that the only rational innovation strategy is to balance effort behind both organic sustaining growth and disruptive innovation. What Seth Godin Got Right – and What It Means for Management May 9th, 2011 “The easier it is to quantify, the less it’s worth.” - Seth Godin, Linchpin But Is It Innovation? May 5th, 2011 May 2nd, 2011 We disagree.
Perceptions, Biases, & Stereotypes: Accepting Differences in Thinking in Business & Life Whether or not we like to admit it, we all view the world through the lens of our personal biases and stereotypes. It’s an unavoidable fact of human nature. If you accept it and go with it, you’ll only gain- both in business and in life. Lately, I have come across several provocative articles on the topic of perceptions and stereotypes. Here are a few of the notable ones: Business World Perceptions, Mis-Perceptions and Judging Books by Their Covers: The Curious Case of Dolph Lundgren! In the business world, everything revolves around the perceptions, values, and biases of your customers, employees, and business partners. Today, being in touch with these attitudes is all the more important as businesses big and small are pushing the geographical boundaries aside to operate in the global marketplace with multicultural, multinational teams, and as the world in general becomes increasingly interconnected. The truth is that our perceptions, biases and stereotypes have a purpose.
Blog Speaking Speed Have you ever been talking with someone and they speak so slllooowwwlllyyy, that you want to shake them? Or, have you ever been talking with someone who speaks so quickly that you want to shake them even more? The reason is that we feel the most comfortable with people who are the most like us. […] Read more The Key To Persuading Others It’s about passion. First, They Got To Like You I don’t care what you sell or how amazing your offer is; If I don’t like you, I’m not buying. The New Entrepreneurship Way Entrepreneurship has changed forever. How To Use Color In Your Business Looks matter. How To Determine What You Are Passionate About When you have passion for something it will get you over every brick wall, help you weather every storm, and even when you’ve been knocked down for the hundredth time, compel you to get back up and try again. Why You Can’t Motivate An Employee I get it. When Is The Best Time To Start A New Business? No “No.” For audience members, typical is boring.