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Here's a Business Week article...Meet the Antipreneurs:They’re against advertising, corporate America, and globalization. That’s good for business...that deserved a rant.
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Particularly in a down economy, it's not your selling techniques that matter -- it's what you know about a client's business that will open the door to a deal.
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"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." The quote is attributed to the Nobel prize winning physician Albert Szent-Györgyi.
How do you look at something different? One method I'd recommend is to "scamper." Yes,hopping around like a small animal or child *is* fun, that's not what
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With all the talk about blogging and social media lately, you'd think there was nothing left to do in the world of search engine optimization. But sometimes the best way to give your site a boost is to go back to basics. Whether it's a refresher or your first shot at optimizing your site, here's a trip down content revitalization lane.
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As personalized search and universal search continue shaking up an industry that used to be dominated by "top ten results," more and more small businesses are learning the value of focusing on the keyword long tail. While there's no doubting the value of bringing in highly targeted traffic, many companies still don't quite get how to target th
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From article: Remember in high school or college the couple that seemed to have a never-ending, on again, off again dating relationship? One week they’re on, the next week they’re off. The next week they’re on, the following week they’re off.
Well, in speaking with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners, I’ve found that many hav
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More women are on social networks and on average have slightly more “friends” than do men, even though men tend to be more focused on acquiring “friends” than building relationships with them, according to a Rapleaf study of 30.74 million social networkers.
Rapleaf examined the number of friends that men and women have on Bebo, Facebook, Frien
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From the page: "Before I get started solving a new problem I take the time to get my thoughts organized, prioritize concerns, and help formulate an attack plan.
How do I organize my thoughts? I use a Mind Map. "
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I thought this was a great video on the importance have providing more than one offer when selling and negotiating.
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If you haven't noticed, some blogs are a lot stricter with their comment policies than others.
I have recently advocated using blog comments as a way of promoting your site, but not in a form that is in any way spammy. The best way to get traffic from blog comments is to link your name to your site. This will give them the opportunity to see
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Though fashion still accounts for 41% of the total teen budget, total teen spending in the category declined nearly 20% year over year, pointing to a “discretionary recession,” according to the 15th semi-annual “Taking Stock With Teens” study by Piper Jaffray.
Compared with last year’s study, young men spent 15% less on discretionary items (fa
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Jeff Bezos recently highlighted, Animoto, a great self-service video creation site.
As a former TV commercial director and still photographer I can relate to what Jeff is saying -- in the old days it took dozens of hours in an expensive post-production studio to create even the simplest video from collections of stills. Animoto can do it in a
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Picture this: you get to work on time (because you’ve followed a well-thought-out morning routine!), you have fresh coffee just the way you like it, your computer is completely booted up and ready to get some work done, and you look over to see your neatly stacked pile of projects for the day…already prioritized because you’ve mastered your paper
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Great brands operate at a higher level.
They don't change the essence of who they are as the business changes. That's backward and that's why companies fail. Instead, they make sure that they direct how the business changes so that it fits with the brand, from the new lines they bring in, to the employees they hire, to the competing compa
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