Like this article? PLEASE +1 it! Evan Signature
Evan Carmichael Top Header about About Home Profiles articles Tools forums inspirational quotes About facebook Twitter YouTube Blog

hi folks Tagged Articles



What Business Are You In?
What business are you in? “The car business” would probably be your normal answer. I would invite you look deeper into that question.

Other hi folks Related Articles

Posting relevant comments on blogs is networking
I happen to think that many small business folks would find networking on the web as valuable as networking at, say, the next Chamber event. There are many ways to do networking on the web but I happen to think one of the easiest is to participate in blogs you enjoy by frequently posting relevant content. Blog comment posting is very much like standing around chatting with a group of folks at a networking event (except you don’t have to balance the Swedish meatball plate on your wine glass.)
Taxing eBay Part Deux
Several folks argued that just because their little eBay hobby generated a little cash, that didn’t make it a full blown business. It seems they consider the income from their little hobby to be financial manna from Heaven and thereby not taxable by earthly tax collectors. I’ve always been amused by folks who try to impress me with talk about their “little side business” but when the subject turns to taxes they suddenly refer to it as “my little hobby.”
We Can’t Understand Customers
I often hear sales, marketing, and change management folks talking about ‘understanding the customer.’ But what, exactly, does that mean? On the face of it, it’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s vital to ‘understand the customer.’ But it’s not so simple as just ‘understanding’ as there are so many facets to this. I must admit that when I hear folks using the term “understanding the customer’, it sounds to me as if they are seeking to ‘understand’ so they can sell or influence – using the act of understanding as part of a sales cycle.

Video Games…So Many Options, So Little Time
The fun and fantasy of the recent E3 conference was breathtaking. It's great to see gaming bouncing back and the console folks doing their darndest to breath new life into their systems -- especially since they haven't done a refresh design for way so many years, you begin to wonder... It was so cool because we were all ready to see the rebound. But wait a minute isn't it just like WarGames -- a lot of make believe along with some real world reality? Our house has the "standard" console(s). Our house has the "standard" HD TV set(s). Our house doesn't have any 3D content but then the game folks won't have theirs for "a few months." So what else is there? Right! The online gaming world is huge and getting even larger.

On The Road, Staying in Touch for Business, Pleasure
Sure the next couple of months are going to be hectic what with the holidays, Storage Visions, CES, the holidays. It's no wonder that the gift everyone expects to get in their stocking is portable. We just don't seem to have enough of being in touch with all of the bad news and folks we don't want to see. Already we see folks with a couple of smartphones, notebook, tablet, more tucked in their backpacks. The demand for devices and content just keeps growing. As long as it's portable though we'll just ride on!
WOM…It’s An Art, It’s Science, It’s Theirs
If you went to/read about SXSW (check Wikipedia) you saw that folks were doing everything for word of mouth (WOM) buzz. They'll do it all the time, every time. Big secret though? Those folks don't have one iota of control over WOM! Nope that belongs to the people we're feeding the messages to. You know "them." Problem is they can turn on you in a heartbeat and gawd it ain't pretty. When that happens it's damage control and you try to save the vital parts...that's when you call the PR folks to blame...not us, them! It can be "managed if you know how to prepare, what to do, when to do it...and you have blind faith!!!!

Artists, Music, Audiences Change Labels Find it Tough
eems like half the shows on TV are about rising musicians/singers. But ask the MPAA (music folks) and their industry is breathing its last chest rattling breath. Quit humming around the house. Stop listeing to music on your iPhone, iPod, car/home radio because you're only prolonging the inevitable. How dumb can folks think you are because player sales -- all types -- are up like gangbusters. Pandora and other services are rolling in money. Our problem Ensure the musicians get their fair share. The MPA? Labels? Sorry folks those days are gone...you're right!!!!

Cyberworld …Guess We’ll Have to Get Secure with Insecurity
Every time you turn around there's a new report about someone losing a bunch of folks personal data or hackers defacing your stuff or a new, better online bait-and-switch. Cybercriminals are making impressive gains. At least when you hear folks talk at the two leading security conferences in Las Vegas - DefCon and Black Hat. - you wonder if CyberInnocence will ever exist...again It used to be pale folks with bad hair and bad skin attending to learn the latest "tricks" of the trade. This year it looked like a corporate/governmental recruiting activity with the security folks saying what they were doing -- needed to do to protect organizational/individual information and the hackers/hacktivists "voicing" their concern over privacy invasion and freedom of the Internet. All we have to d
It’s Not About the Personal Device, It’s About the Personal Content
People are climbing all over each other to get a "new" smartphone. Folks can't get enough of using their iPad/tablet. Wife loves her Kindle ereader. We can't wait for the new Ultrabooks. Big screen TV sales are...flat. What's wrong with this picture? Some folks say the phones/tablets are killing the PC...wrong. Computers are changing. So are our many screens. In a few years - let's say 20 years - you won't be carrying around a computer or a tablet or a phone...no need. The computer will just be wherever you are. The screen? Same. Your content/stuff? Ditto. Privacy? Oh yeah, how's that workin for you??

Content … Big, Beautiful, Ready to Sail
You know the environmentalist tale about a butterfly in the rain forest affecting.. Same is true of overwatering in Thailand affecting PC manufacturers, users around the globe. The Big 3 HD folks are slowly bouncing back (give em 3 quarters) but it made lots of folks think even harder about systems with solid state memory (SSDs). We all knew they were faster, lighter, cooler running, easier on batteries. Now the new Win ultrabooks and Mac Air are looking even better because what the heck you don't need all that big storage to take with you and the prices are looking pretty darn good. For the rest of your stuff...use the cloud. Us? We "need" the storage so you go right ahead and leave us behind.

Featured Article

Bottom Footer



Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!
Name:
Email:
Popular Articles

Let's Skip the Offshore Horror Stories

International Employment Background Checks

Emotional Intelligence in Business
Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.