Archive for October 20th, 2005
The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing
R. F. Parker, a reviewer on Amazon: The title of this book makes it sound like a white-paper or a report, but it is really 200+ pages of conceptual, well-written marketing advice. Each “step” is actually a high-level concept and each forms a different section of the book. Each “step” is then broken down into [...]
Do You Have an Entrepreneurial Mind?
Inc.: So just what makes an Inc. 500 CEO tick? To better understand the mind of the Inc. 500 CEO, strategy consultant Keith McFarland teamed up with Inc. magazine and administered the Test of Attentional and Interpersonal Style (TAIS) to nearly 250 leaders of Inc. companies. TAIS has been in use since the 1970s and [...]
More followup from Startup School: Coverage: Linux Journal, Michael Mandel, Chris Sacca, Harvard Crimson, Gabor Cselle, Part 1 and Part 2, Kevin Hale, Ben Atkin, J Aaron Farr, Ted Tagami, Frederick Giasson, [day] will, Daily Static, Keith Casey. Images: Kevin Shockey, Lou Huang, Miguel Menchu, Beau Hartshorne, Ted Tagami, Branimir Dolicki. There are links to [...]
Paul Graham’s Startup School Recap
Weblog reader Keith Casey, who originally signed up because of a post he read here, has made a report on his experiences at Paul Graham’s Startup School. It sounds like he had an excellent time, and has loads of good advice to share. Here’s how he described Paul Graham’s presentation: Next, was the nearly infamous [...]
Anita has responded to today’s challenge from OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship with her own style of answer, and lists the top five websites that small businesses wouldn’t be able to live (as well) without. Two of my favorite from her list are: SCORE Biz Powerlinks – SCORE’s (Service Corp of Retired Executives) website is impressive. [...]
Rob has posted his own take on today’s question from OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship: First off is Skype. Talk free with anyone, anywhere. If you want to do business in another state, or even another country, you need Skype. I’ve talked with people in Europe and it work better than the telephone. Next on my [...]
What’s New & Essential For Small Business
Today’s question from OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship: There are a number of institutions that small business couldn’t live without–FedEx, Kinkos, Staples, Starbucks. What new functions are essential to small businesses today? Google? Ebay? What else? I recently experienced something that I’d long since forgotten: what it must have been like to do business before the [...]
Big Companies Are Not Entrepreneurial
Dr. Jeff Cornwall: “I decided several years ago that once a business goes public, things change enough that I no longer consider the business to be entrepreneurial any more. All of these companies were started as entrepreneurial ventures, but being a public company alters governance, corporate culture and management practices enough to make it a [...]
According to Darren Rowse, a Google Page Rank update is underway. I’m really excited about this update because this weblog is finally a PR7, and the other sites in my network (Español, MLM, Work at Home) are all PR5! While the update is underway, you can check your new PR with SEO Tools’ Future PageRank [...]
