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Does What Goes Around Come Around?
2008-02-18 14:50:00 My mother always used to say to me ?What goes around comes around?. As a young boy she would say that to me every time I felt used by a friend or taken advantage of by someone. The older I got the more I witnessed how true this was and we truly do reap what ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Consulting , Strategy
Are The Rules of Business Changing?
2008-02-15 14:52:00 Business leaders collect data and subsequently when confronted with the aggregate analysis the typical reaction is to create organizational change aimed at improving the negative results highlighted in the data. The subsequent change initiatives consume internal resources, already overloaded with work, and typically involve outside consultants who make their living trying to help organizations gain ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Consulting , Strategy
Is The Cluetrain leaving The Station?
2008-02-14 11:25:00 In the old days when the conductor of the train was ready to leave a station the whistle blew and he shouted ?All Aboard!?.Yesterdays presentation at the SAP Anniversary session of The Cluetrain ignited the blogosphere with conversational rivers that will likely swell for weeks. Doc Searls presentation ripped open minds and made ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Strategy , Human Resources
Cluetrain Perspectives: Right or Wrong?
2008-02-14 00:32:00 Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, did a anniversary presentation at the SAP offices in New York City today and his comments were summed up by Charlene Li on a blog post at Social Media Today that is worth sharing. Charlene writes : ?Doc Searls started talking about ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Consulting , Strategy
Are We Headed For Chaos?
2008-02-13 13:03:00 02 13th, 2008 An average commuter will drive 60 miles a day which equates to $21,098 in cost a year per person commuting. This cost continues to rise as the cost of fuel goes up.The average worker spends in excess of 50 hours a week away from home. As ... More About: Business , Management , Consulting , Strategy , Networking
How Does ?Free? Impact Your Business?
2008-02-10 21:16:00 The internet is free. The tools are free. Content is free. Social networks are free and users have gained the freedom of expression and connectivity without constraint for free.The only factors of user and producer cost is time, attention and trust.The ?free? model doesn?t fit well with traditional business models and mindsets. People have ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Consulting , Strategy
Things You Wish You Could Say At Work
2008-02-08 14:39:00 1. Ahhh… I see the f–k-up fairy has visited us again… 2. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce. 3. How about never? Is never good for you? 4. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. 5. I’m really easy to get along with once you ... More About: Work , Things
What Does Free Earn: GoDaddy Go Figure
2008-02-08 12:09:00 The perplexing question for businesses is ?how can we make money using the social web?? Most view the social web as a playground, a place where people connect, converse and businesses view the economic game as purely one of advertising. For years businesses have continuously tried to develop metrics to measure their return on advertising ... More About: Business , Management , Free , Leadership , Earn
The state of business
2008-02-06 18:19:00 The website GreenBiz and its editors embarked on a journey to solve a mystery. Using data on a slew of indicators comprising the GreenBiz Index, part of the inaugural “State of Green Business 2008″ report was released last week. See www.greenbiz.com to download the report. The conclusion: Environmental performance overall in the U.S. is ... More About: The State
Sustainable English and the Communication-friendly Environment
2008-02-03 11:23:00 Featured post by Terry Kaufman from YourEnglish Success! One day I went to HSBC to interview my customers and their non-native English speaking colleagues. I wanted to understand their communication case better and get greater insight into Anglophone and non-Anglophone interactions. During one interview, I was amazed at how eloquently one individual, Mr. Boyer, clearly expressed the ... More About: Business , Environment , Communication , Training
How Good is Your Social Marker
2008-01-26 15:36:00 The social web is creating a reversal in the process of managing customers. People learn from people and subsequently are avoiding influence from institutions rather the conversations of people, one to one to millions, have become the power of influence.These conversations are creating ?social markers? on brands. ?Social markers? is a term created ... More About: Marketing , Business , Blogroll , Public Relations
Fire Them Up! 7 Simple Secrets to Inspire Colleagues, Customers, and Client
2008-01-23 13:26:00 Whether your the boss, a manager, or employee, you spend the majority of your life at work. You might as well be motivated so you can enjoy that time. A book called Fire Them Up! by Carmine Gallo will do just that! We have all seen workplaces where it was dreadful to come in ... More About: Business , Customers , Secrets , Simple
Work vs Prison
2008-01-19 02:40:00 IN PRISON… you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell. AT WORK… you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle. IN PRISON… you get three meals a day. AT WORK… you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it. IN PRISON… you get time off for good ... More About: Work , Prison
#1 Form of Business Communication - Email
2008-01-17 05:11:00 It’s a surprise to me how many companies have websites these days. From the companies that run their business out of their home office, the hundreds of thousands of small businesses, all the way up to large corporations…they all have a website and utilize email for communicating with clients, vendors, and other employees within ... More About: Business , Communication , Email , Strategy , Form
Creating your mission statement for success
2008-01-16 11:45:00 When you first start a new company, it is vitally important that you set up your mission statement. This is a statement that gives your company purpose. What are you starting this new company for? What do you want it to accomplish? What is the driving force behind this organization? The reason ... More About: Business , Management , Strategy , Leadership , Success
Is It Markets, Methods and Movements?
2008-01-13 11:50:00 Businesses are shaped and built around markets, existing or created. Whether the proposition is a product or service, for a business to survive it has to have a market that wants or needs its product or service.Business follows different methods to build and deliver to the masses. Creating ... More About: Marketing , Business , Public Relations , Management , Strategy
Are We Programmed for Dependence or Independence?
2008-01-05 14:50:00 Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com The great historian George Santana once said ?Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.?The history of social movements have demonstrated the human desire for independence while the ?portals of power? have always tried to make people dependent on the power structures. More and ... More About: Marketing , Security , Business , Management , Networking
Competency Models for Superior Employees
2008-01-05 01:28:00 In business, you want to have the best employees working for you. If your team is made up of high quality people who have the skills and traits to succeed, your company will grow faster, quicker, and easier. It’s those times that you have key employees holding your company back from this growth. I’m ... More About: Business , Models , Management , Human Resources , Employees
Thank you and Happy New Year!
2008-01-04 01:48:00 Now that we’ve entered into 2008, I hope most of you have written down your business and personal goals that you want to accomplish this year. I just got done reviewing the goals I set in early 2007 last week and I was happy with the things I’ve been able complete (and of course there’s still ... More About: Business , New Year , Happy , Happy New Year , Year
Are Businesses Afflicted with C.P.A.?
2008-01-03 20:35:00 Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com ?You?ll have ten minutes to explain the virtual world of social networks.? That was the instructions from a global corporation who asked us to dial into the proverbial Monday morning executive meeting and discuss social networks.So how does one educate business executives about the value of conversational relationships ... More About: Business , Management , Strategy , Networking , Human Resources
How to go ?green?
2008-01-02 17:35:00 Featured post by Lara Valentine from Green Habits Today’s Alert Headline from CSR-Wire read “CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007:Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize helps validate business case for addressing climate crisis”. The story highlights a report by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors that released a “Carbon Beta” study that gives strong evidence ... More About: Business
Are We headed for a Train Wreck?
2008-01-02 15:33:00 Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com Today?s social networks are ?train cars? of conversations.People connect to people they perceive as ?headed in the same direction they desire to pursue?. The subsequent conversations reflect common threads of interest. The different train tracks represent different conversations, different platforms, different affinities and different transactions. We?ll define a transaction as ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Strategy , Networking
Will 2008 be the Year of Social Commerce?
2008-01-01 18:10:00 Many of the conversations in 2007 were about whether social networks will become centric to conducting commerce, B2B, B2C and P2P.While social networks continue to grow exponentially the next growth curve will be driven by the holy grail of economics?, social commerce. Social commerce may actually become the dominant development in 2008 and subsequently ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Consulting
What is the Impact of Cascading Conversations?
2007-12-31 11:33:00 Based on the ebb and flow of the social web in 2007 this new year promises to bring more disruption facilitated by the cascading conversations of individuals, one to one to millions. We are likely to experience significant adoption of the social web by businesses representing every market segment and industry. The force that fuels ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Strategy , Networking
10 Points for Business Transformation
2007-12-31 00:21:00 There is an old saying, ?if you stay in this world you will never learn another one.?Learning the dynamics, the art and the science of the new world created by the social web is one of the foremost challenges for businesses. Current business theories are correct in their own world, but the problem is that ... More About: Marketing , Business , Management , Strategy , Networking
Dividing Factors: People vs. Businesses
2007-12-30 22:46:00 Social Tools are changing the way business gets done.IBM, Toyota, even Wells-Fargo Bank, have invested serious money in Second Life and are using blogs to engage customers, people; many corporations are building their own social networks to serve employees and to create commerce amongst customers; major law firms encourage their employees to blog; wikis are ... More About: Marketing , Business , People , Strategy , Human Resources
A nice reminder on why you SHOULD ALWAYS backup your website
2007-12-19 02:07:00 Okay, after a lot of kicking and screaming today I got my website back up. I lost my entire database in my blog section and the last backup I had was a couple of months ago. This is a good reminder that you should backup your database regularly. I’m going to start ... More About: Business , Website , Backup , Nice , Reminder
Happy Birthday! Birthday parties at work.
2007-12-14 18:00:00 Businesses that truly value their employees create special occasions to celebrate. Birthday s are always a good time to bring together your employees and celebrate one specific employee and have some fun. I’m writing about this today because it’s my birthday, today! Unfortunately, I work from home so their won’t be any celebrations, but I ... More About: Business , Work , Parties , Happy
American Psycho: Business Card Scene
2007-12-10 18:36:00 Make sure your business cards make an impression! An article called “Designing Impressive Business Card s” tells you how to create your own impressive business card. The most important aspect of the article is “If you want people to KEEP your card, you must give them a reason not to throw it away…for example ... More About: Psycho , Networking , American
How outdoor lighting improves your business
More articles from this author:2007-12-10 02:30:00 There are many companies that are in the business of entertaining others. These can be from clubs and bars to cocktail parties and weddings. Most of these businesses run in the late afternoon and early evening because that is when these types of events happen. To many of these types of companies do not ... More About: Business , Lighting , Outdoor , Prove , Sine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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