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Ten Ideas for Corporate RSS Feeds

» by November 26th, 2005 at 8:14 pm » Comments (0)

Here are 10 ideas for corporate RSS feeds to (mainly) external audiences. Most of these reasons are good ones for deploying RSS internally as well as part of your employee communications, knowledge management, content management, and other systems. This is on the CEO Bloggers Club Site. Click HERE for the 10 RSS ideas.



Bootstrapping: The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success

» by November 24th, 2005 at 3:20 pm » Comments (0)

How do you launch a successful high-tech business? If you ask the typical MBA, they’ll give the same answer. Write a comprehensive in-depth business plan, take it to investors to secure a healthy initial round of funding, recruit the heaviest heavyweights you can, and start the PR machine cranking. But, of course, they’d be completely [...]



What Does Your marketing Say About Your Competitors?

» by November 23rd, 2005 at 9:52 am » Comments (0)

Politicians do it all the time. Think about the hundreds of millions of dollars spent in the last few presidential campaigns on smear tactics. What a waste. The polls show that it really turns people off – yet our “highly intelligent” leaders can’t avoid doing it. What if a candidate took a couple hundred million [...]



How to Compute a Reasonable Royalty Rate

» by November 22nd, 2005 at 3:25 pm » Comments (0)

“Among the most frequently asked questions I get from start-up companies is: How much should I pay for licensing in a technology?…While most companies seem to use a valuation method I like to call “pulling a number out of the air,” there are three primary methods used by licensing professionals to assess the value of [...]



The Single Best Measure of A Business

» by November 16th, 2005 at 7:17 pm » Comments (0)

A great post by Jack Yoest from this weeks Carnival of the Capitalists hosted by Jeff Cornwall. Prostitutes and consultants have been labeled as not being too particular about clients. Your Business Blogger may be the exception. As consultant, that is. There are many ways to evaluate and predict the success of an enterprise. But [...]



Mind Your Own Business…

» by November 12th, 2005 at 8:29 am » Comments (1)

Check out this new site where you can find the links to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality. Created by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Junior Achievement, this site walks you through five easy steps of business ownership – whether you’ve just had a brainstorm for your first business venture or you’ve been at [...]



Does Your Company Need More Buzz?

» by November 11th, 2005 at 6:28 pm » Comments (1)

Need to create ‘word of mouth’ buzz for your company? Then you need to check out this site and service. Buzzoodle is Buzz Marketing and Word of Mouth Marketing with a twist. Instead of creating word of mouth and buzz with people who have just found out about your product or service, Buzzoodle helps you [...]



When Entrepreneurs Call It Quits

» by November 11th, 2005 at 2:10 pm » Comments (0)

Paul Orfalea opened up his first Kinko’s copy shop in Santa Barbara next to a hamburger stand in 1970, when he was 22 years old. More than two decades later, Kinko’s had outlets around the world and was named one of the best places to work by FORTUNE magazine three years in a row. Orfalea [...]



Conversation: Recurring Revenue Streams – How to Create Them

» by November 10th, 2005 at 7:40 am » Comments (0)

On this Voice America, Small Business Trends radio broadcast Anita has as her special guest, Frank Griffith. Frank talks about recurring revenue streams — especially for service businesses: how to create them and how to profit from them. If you have a service business, one of the things you quickly realize is that you need [...]



Flying Solo…Looking for Support

» by November 10th, 2005 at 7:33 am » Comments (1)

Are you a business of one? Do you enjoy Flying Solo? Then this is a website you should check out as it is designed just for you! Flying Solo has been created for the fastest growing segment of the business community: the solo business owner. Within the site, aspiring and actual soloists will find an [...]