links for 2006-02-15

By Dane Carlson on February 15, 2006 in Ideas

• Dealhack Buyers Guide: Top Five Dell Shopping Tips
  Dell is a company that built its reputation in part by driving prices down, so it would be easy to assume that when you buy a Dell you are automatically getting the best deal. However, there is a fair amount of variability built into their merchandising m
  (tags: bizopblog dell buying computer deals)
• Facteon Blog: Four Tax Blog Picks from the Wall Street Journal
  (tags: bizopblog blogs taxes)
• David V. Lorenzo: Titles are Worthless
  “More than 80% of workers who feel they’re underpaid actually are not, according to a new survey of 13,592 people released by Salary.com. Instead, they are either overpaid, fairly paid or holding job titles that don’t match the work they do.
  (tags: bizopblog employees)
• Be Excellent™: Spend Time Wisely
  There are only 3,744 hours of free time each year where you can do whatever you want…
  (tags: bizopblog time)
• The Rewards of Running a Home Business
  Most articles on home business and start-ups focus on the strategies and tasks required to get a business up and running. Experts rush in to tell the entrepreneur how to avoid disaster. But sometimes the struggling entrepreneur needs to be boosted — and
  (tags: bizopblog business homeoffice workathome success)
• How To Work (If You Must) With Your Spouse
  Supposedly: Only 5% of couples can make all-in partnership work.
  (tags: bizopblog marriage business entrepreneurs)
• The Entrepreneurial Mind: Why We Should Love Small Business
  (tags: bizopblog valentinesday sba smallbusiness)
• Blogs to Riches – The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom — New York Magazine
  By all appearances, the blog boom is the most democratized revolution in media ever. Starting a blog is ridiculously cheap; indeed, blogging software and hosting can be had for free online. There are also easy-to-use ad services that, for a small fee, wil
  (tags: bizopblog blogging advertising publishing)
• Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing
  Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle
  (tags: bizopblog writing)
• The Occupational Adventure (sm): Don’t use your skills to decide your career path
  So often I see people ask, “What skills do I have,” and then use that laundry list to identify the potential careers they can pursue. I would suggest that that approach is backwards. A career that you technically have the skills to do may or may not be a
  (tags: career bizopblog skills education happiness)
• Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Stop Closing and Start Selling
  Many sales experts imply that unless we’re always working toward the close, we’re just one step away from professional meltdown. With most clients, though, you’ll have far more success if you let them buy from you, instead of trying to sell them som
  (tags: salespeople sales bizopblog business closing)
• Love and Small Business Go Together Like. . .
  “More than 4% of the population (U.S.) annually starts a new business – that’s more than the number of people getting married each year!*” -
  (tags: bizopblog smallbusiness businessmodels marriage startup)
• The Virtual Handshake Blog | » Download The Virtual Handshake for free
  Just as online dating has revolutionized the way singles connect, very similar technologies are revolutionizing the way that businesspeople close deals. We wrote The Virtual Handshake to show you how to sign new customers, meet new business partners, recr
  (tags: ebook handshake free bizopblog ideas marketing publishing)
• Blogs to Riches: Popularity and Traffic in the Blogosphere — Business Logs
  The premise of the article is that the rich keep getting richer, and in the blog world this translates to blogs with the highest traffic keep gaining more traffic, separating themselves from the B- & C-list blogs who fight tooth and nail to move out of th
  (tags: blogging blogs tips bizopblog money advertising)
• 10 Steps of Marketing With No Money — Then Sell Out
  In the late 80′s Your Business Blogger was part of a medical device start-up. With no money. We were launching new products, with new technology, teaching new surgical techniques, new medicine.
  (tags: tips marketing bizopblog)

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