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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 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? There is a popular belief about stock market investing – don’t try to time it, instead “dollar cost average.” No “No.” No question about it.

How to Create a Technology Based Company Internet Home Business For Moms Michael E Gerber Karen Leland: Bring Social Media Sanity To Your Small Business Every morning, I walk across the street from my townhouse and take a stroll by the San Francisco Bay. The paved pathway I amble down is a flurry of bike riders, power walkers, and locals taking their dogs out for a morning stretch. Earlier this week, I came across a springy King Charles spaniel happily chewing on a tennis ball, when he suddenly became aware of his owner filling up his water bowl at the drinking fountain. The dog -- who had previously been in a state of single focus bliss -- began to nervously shift his attention from the ball, to the bowl and back again. I know just how that dog feels. And so does any small business owner or entrepreneur, who is confronted with crafting a modern marketing strategy out of the vast array of choices presented by today's social media landscape. "I think small businesses are confused about what they should do and how they should do it," says Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot. Just what is that right way? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Business & Management | Articles, Experts & Forum 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. 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 One reason we like to share listings is that it’s a good place to discover other quality blogs, or remind yourself about ones you already know of. While you’re at it, you might also want to explore the rest of Wikio.

Guide for Small Businesses Maximizing Profitability with Theory of Constraints Chris Ducker | Virtual Assistants | Passive Income | Personal Branding | 4 Hour Work Week 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. My client loved what we had accomplished and asked whether he should do the same thing. My answer: “Maybe, maybe not. 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 May 5th, 2011

7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Give Up on the Dream | EntrepreneurHeat The way of the entrepreneur is fraught with danger. You’ve got to climb mountains of skepticism and cross chasms of underfunding, where beneath you the skeletons of ill-fated startups lie… and there’s only that thin rope of your own determination keeping you up there, alive. Nobody said being an entrepreneur was easy, but I bet some days you didn’t expect it would be quite so hard. [via Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog] Follow us @entrepreneurht – lists / @blackbolenay Tagged as: become an entrepreneur, business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, game, money, small-business Follow us @entrepreneurht - lists / @sectorheat

Get Your Business to Work! | Helping Entrepreneurs & Contractors Get Their Business to Work 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.

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