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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
More provocative business thinking from the bestselling author of Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars As one of today?s most influential business thinkers, Seth Godin helps his army of fans stay focused, stay connected, and stay dissatisfied with the status quo, the ordinary, the boring. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired countless entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world.
Now, for the first time, Godin has collected the most provocative short pieces from his pioneering blog?ranked #70 by Feedster (out of millions published) in worldwide readership. This book also includes his most popular columns from Fast Company magazine, and several of the short e-books he has written in the last few years.
A sample:
? Bon Jovi And The Pirates
? Christmas Card Spam
? Clinging To Your Job Title?
? How Much Would You Pay to Be on Oprah?s Show?
? The Persistence of Really Bad Ideas
? The Seduction of "Good Enough"
? What Happens When It's All on Tape?
? Would You Buy Life Insurance at a Rock Concert?
Small is the New Big is a huge bowl of inspiration that you can gobble in one sitting or dip into at any time. As Godin writes in his introduction: "I guarantee that you'll find some ideas that don?t work for you. But I?m certain that you're smart enough to see the stuff you?ve always wanted to do, buried deep inside one of these riffs. And I?m betting that once inspired, you?ll actually make something happen."
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Monday, October 18, 2010
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Great Home Business Ideas And Reports
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
How To Tap Employee Idea-Power
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Getting Funded: It Takes More Than Just a Good Idea (videotape) [VHS]
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Four principles for building a Dynamic BusinessThursday, October 7, 2010
Discuss Small Business With The White House Today
Join me today at 2pm ET for a Tweetchat surrounding the live broadcast of OPENForum’s Q and A with Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Small business owners posed questions for Mills and OPENForum’s Scott Roen will moderate the discussion.
In light of the recent Small Business Jobs Bill, tight lending environment, and impending changes to how small businesses deal with health care, I thought it might be interesting to hang out with some other small business owners to chat live on Twitter during the event.
Here’s how you can join
1) Bookmark this page – http://openforum.com/whitehouse – and fire it up at 1pm CT today in a browser window.
2) Login or Join Tweetchat (free tool that facilitates this kind of thing) – enter #OPENLive as the hashtag and the join the conversation
(Yes, you will need to have two browser windows open and do a bit of multi-tasking, but you can do it!)
Here are two recent articles on the Jobs Bill that I found interesting.
FYI – I contribute to OPENForum as a blogger, but this discussion is not sponsored in any way by AMEX. I just thought it might be useful.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Trends That Will Shape Small Business Next Year
Last year about this time I wrote a post from OPENForum titled 5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2010 – I’m thinking I pretty much nailed them, which on the surface might seem easy because small business are often late to jump on trends. The tricky thing about understanding small business though is that when they do jump on a trend it’s often in ways that run counter to what the mainstream media reports.
Small business don’t care about a trend so they can get out in front of something, they care about things that seems obvious, practical and worth the scant bit of time they might be able to allocate to it. If you’re trying to sell to or understand small business, take a look a look at this year’s 5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2011.
Here’s a quick look at what they are, but you’ll have to go read the entire piece to get the full view from a small business vantage.
1) Social simply is
2) Mobile finally lands
3) O2O becomes strategy
4) Networked referral automation
5) Apps over Web
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Benefits Of Facebook And Twitter Marketing
Millions of people across the globe use social media networking sites every day. According to statistics discussed at the Social Media Summit 2010, Facebook alone claims that 50% of its active users log in to the website each day. While some people use the sites for connecting with friends, these days there is a growing trend for using such sites as marketing platforms. Many small and medium enterprises are promoting their business across the Web through these sites. A major benefit of brand promotion through these social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter is that as the sites have a large number of users, a business profile on those portals gets wide exposures. To reap the benefits of social media for generating traffic to your website/s, you need to create a business profile on the social media site you are registering to.
Two of the major social media networking sites are facebook and Twitter. To get success with Facebook and Twitter marketing, you need to add various software applications to the pages of your social media business profile. Make sure to choose the applications according to the functionalities that you want to incorporate in your profile to attract and engage potential customers. This strategy will increase the sticking time of the users to your page. This will also ensure that a maximum number of people are getting directed to your official pages.
So, you can see that with Facebook and Twitter marketing, it is remarkably easy to generate traffic for your business. A vital aspect of online marketing that people often forget is to create an attractive business profile, which should be completely filled with essential information. An incomplete profile may not be able to win the trust of people towards your business. You must also make sure that your official website contains relevant content and features to reflect your business intentions and reputation well.
Let us have a glance at the benefits that Facebook and Twitter marketing offers you:
Benefits of Facebook and Twitter marketing
* Two way communication between you and your target audience that helps to build a better mutual understanding.
* Allows people to engage and identify with your brand. Thus helps in effective brand promotion.
* You can build up a virtual personality. You can send and receive messages with your clients in a personal and friendly environment.
* Your competitors might also be doing Facebook and Twitter marketing. You can monitor their strategies and programs and can give them a tough competition.
These benefits are just like a few drops of water in an ocean.
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
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How To Stay Focused On What’s Important
Remember, Time is a greedy player who wins without cheating, every round! It’s the law. — The Clock – Charles Baudelaire
One of the biggest challenges small businesses face is time – there’s never enough to get it all done.
In fact, I often advise businesses to create and promote features that save time and make use more convenient over any other when marketing to small businesses.
As a business owner one of the things that robs you of your time is lack of focus. It is so easy to get distracted by the thing that is calling the loudest, no matter if it’s the thing you really need to do today.
If throughout the day you have a finite amount of time and an infinite list of things on your plate, then it’s crucial that you develop a habit of focusing on the most important things on that list on a consistent basis.
Here are my tips for staying focused and getting the right things done.
Refer to your list
I keep a list of high payoff activities at my ready so that when I’m faced with a choice of doing one thing over another, procrastinating or making busy work, I can refer to it and know that if I choose to focus on an action on that list, I’ll be doing what needs to be done.
For example, client work is big and so is writing a blog post, replying to some email or responding to a coworker’s request may not be.
You can even make a scoring system of high payoff activities, like marketing related actions, and aim to score so many points in a day.
Make focus a game
Multi-tasking may be seen as highly developed skill, but I’ve learned it will rob you of any focus and pretty much turn you into a passive aggressive bundle of stress. (Maybe I’m projecting a bit here, but that’s my take)
Once you start to practice single minded focus you’ll realize what a gift it is, but you need structure to do it effectively. There are some great theories on how to do this, including one called the Pomodoro Technique, but the basic concept is to get yourself a timer (I use Apimac timer on a Mac) and do laser focused work on one thing only for a set time period and then come up for air. I take five by doing something physical or playing a few licks on the guitar and then I dive in again on one thing.
I find that this game like approach allows me to get much more done and keeps me from straying off down the email distress alert rabbit hole.
Develop no compromise routines
Once you’ve developed your list of high payoff activities there are some routines you probably should adhere to in order to make sure you get certain high payoff activities done before you do anything else.
For instance, I’ve determined writing a blog post every morning is an important activity, so I pledge to do it before I check email in the morning and I find that I get it done more easily and don’t get distracted by that one negative email among the hundreds I got over night.
Get what you resist off the list
I’ve found making a list of action steps for the day and checking each off as I complete them is a great way to keep a daily plan and motivate me to complete the list. I’ve also found that some days that list has a few things I don’t really like to do (usually around accounting.) Since I don’t like to do them, I find it easier to leave them to last, but then they hang there all day like a big ball and chain.
Get the thing you like to do least done first and you’ll free up the creative energy to focus on the rest of the list.
Chunk big projects
Sometimes big projects, ones that require large inputs of time, can be hard to get started because they feel overwhelming.
Using the timing game listed above I’ll often dedicate some blocks of focus to a big project every day for a week and then find that by spending a little time each day, I’ve reduced the project to one final push. The key here is to keep a list of these big projects, break the list into some action steps, and then review it each day and add some steps to you daily plan.
Insulate yourself
If you work in an organization with more than one staff member you know that a big time robber is interruptions from other folks. Some interruptions can be important, but many are not. If you use the timing focus technique start training people that you can answer their questions, in person or by IM, during one of your breaks.
Alternatively, you might schedule blocks of time to meet with your team or collaborators for set periods to consistently cover action steps. The main thing here is to eliminate or minimize the unstructured focus breakers and sometimes that takes training, door locks, and in or out signs. You can also turn off IM, turn off email, and silence the phone.
Image credit: Robbert van der Steeg
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