Archive for February 2006
Bid on Guy Kawasaki Mentoring Sessions
Entrepreneur: Want to get mentored by a world-famous business leader? The “Get in Their Shoes” campaign by the International Mentoring Network Organization (IMNO) is offering auctions for a 30-minute phone mentoring session from a slew of leaders from all sectors: Business, politics, entertainment and more. You also get a pair of their shoes, so you [...]
Carnival of Entrepreneurship #1
The first Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up on About.com’s Entrepreneurs Blog.
David Hardy: Glenn Reynold’s book, An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, was up to #38 on Amazon for a time (even tho it won’t be released for another few weeks), and has been getting excellent reviews. The theme is essentially that [...]
Wired: Financial bubbles get a bum rap. People focus on the sob stories (think of the grandmothers who invested in Pets.com) and the tales of financial chicanery (think WorldCom). But bubbles – those sudden, excessive, and seemingly irrational investment stampedes – aren’t all bad. Sure, they tend to follow a painful cycle of boom, bust, [...]
VCs’ Tips for Winning The Support of Investors
Ian Patrick Sobieski, managing director at Band of Angels, in Startup Journal: When raising money clear and well thought out communication with investors is critical. Good communication involves a careful balance between being sure the reader or listener is informed and intrigued, but not so much that they become confused and miss the salient point. [...]
Internet Business Mastery Podcast
Episode #8 of the Internet Business Mastery podcast is online.
Advertisers Say Google Ads Work Best
Marketing Vox: Most marketers – 71 percent – think Google search ads are effective, compared with 62 percent saying so about Yahoo and 49 percent about MSN, reports MediaPost, citing a survey by Outsell. Advertisers who thought Google performed best were the ones with the smallest marketing budgets: Those who said Google ads were “extremely” [...]
Guy Kawasaski: The art of recruiting is the purest form of evangelism because you’re not simply asking people to try your product, buy your product, or partner with you. Instead, you are asking them to bet their lives on your organization. via Startup Fever.
Small-Town Shops Bulk Up on the Web
NY Times: Almost every significant American economic era is apparent in this neat-as-a-pin city on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Its agrarian heritage is reflected in the farms lying at the city’s edge, and a beer-malting plant at the center of town. The maritime and industrial eras are represented by a coal-fired ferry that [...]
The Super Bowl Creates Unique Business Opportunities
Startup Nation: But what I really find fascinating is the way that entrepreneurs rise to the occasion of an event like the Super Bowl and literally birth unique business opportunities. Sure there are the merchandise vendors and ticket scalpers and parking opportunists, but have you ever noticed how creative entrepreneurs get?. We all notice the [...]
Last week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: Field Producer, Mark Twist, introduces Doug and Dave to Peter the man behind sea jerky, this week on Only in Maine… Judy the author of Caviar Dreams looks to the Brain Brew Crew for advice on how to market her book to readers… Eric in Cincinnati, Ohio [...]
Seth Godin: Most businesses don’t fail dramatically. They do it slowly. … Organizations fail slowly. They often succeed fast, though. That’s where the remarkable comes in. So, if I had to summarize it: You take a big step up… by being bold. But you avoid a slow death by getting every little thing right. Photo [...]
Writing a Book is Just One Step
Gladys Edmunds: Readers often write to me about publishing a book, as if the idea of publishing a book is the ultimate goal. Actually, it is not nor should it be the end goal of an expert. Perhaps you are not ready to hear this, but a published book in today’s world is like having [...]
10 Diversionary Tactics That Keep You From Selling
Work At Home Business Opportunities Weblog: 10 Diversionary Tactics That Keep You From Selling.
