Archive for November 3rd, 2005
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: Keith in Austin, Texas seeks out Doug and Dave’s advice on the best way for his company, Spillover, to compete with traditional advertising… Troy with Lakeshore Home Loans in Cincinnati, Ohio asks our experts the best way to attract the high dollar sales…
Six Disciplines for Excellence
Sarah Bosch brings us a second review this week with a look at Gary Harpst’s Six Disciplines for Excellence: I recently read Six Disciplines for Excellence: Building Small Businesses That Learn, Lead and Last by Gary Harpst. Within the book, Harpst has created a business-building methodology utilizing six fundamental business disciplines that are specifically designed [...]
Steve Pavlina: One idea I learned from this episode is that you don’t have to pick the obvious strategy when going through life. Much of the world is designed around the expectation that you’ll choose the obvious strategy. For example, you’re expected to get a job and earn a salary from it. That’s what most [...]
How Work At Home Businesses Survived With The Power Out
Miami Herald: Many telecommuters found ways to stay connected after the storm. Those who couldn’t lost pay. When Hurricane Wilma blew the power out at Kelly List’s Coral Gables home, she realized she need to act fast. Like many who work from home, her income depended on it. List, who edits direct mailers for a [...]
Marcia Yudkin: Dr. Ellen Kenner, host of a syndicated talk show called The Rational Basis of Happiness, recently told me she follows “the three-foot rule,� which she learned from me in a workshop years ago in Providence, Rhode Island. Unable to remember any such rule, I asked her to teach it back to me. “When [...]
Net Startups Tell VCs: ‘We Don’t Need You’
Startup Journal: But some entrepreneurs believe the balance of power in Silicon Valley is shifting for at least a subset of Internet-focused start-ups. “There is magic in independence,” says Chris MacAskill, co-founder of online-photo site Smugmug Inc., which has no venture funding — and, according to Mr. MacAskill, doesn’t want any. Start-ups also are becoming [...]
