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7 Keys to Transforming Thought
We've all experienced the popular notion that "our thoughts shape our reality". When life is working well, it's easy to focus on thoughts that feel good and perpetuate success and happiness in our lives. However, what do you do when you are attached to thoughts that clearly don't serve you?

Lesson #1: Stick With It
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it,” said Ford.

Lesson #2: Connect with Your Customers
“To be a really successful entrepreneur, you must constantly strive to understand your customers. You must also appreciate them and care about their happiness, ” says Stewart. “There are no people more important to me in my business life than my customers.”

Lesson #1: Psych Yourself Up Not Out
“I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want,” says Omidyar. “I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.”

Lesson #3: Nice Guys Can Finish First
In creating eBay, Omidyar began with five basic values: “We believe people are basically good; we believe everyone has something to contribute; we believe that an honest, open environment can bring out the best in people; we recognize and respect everyone as a unique individual; we encourage you to treat others the way you want to be treated.”

Lesson #4: Work Together
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success,” said Ford. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

Lesson #3: When we see something that could be done better, we do it
“We’re innovative in many small ways,” says Newmark. “When we see something that could be done better, we do it. This is the notion of kaizen, the Japanese practice of continuous business process reengineering.”

Inventory and Risk
Google made some waves by expanding their PPA program. Here's the way I think about online ads:

What Do People Want Online?
It’s not what you think it is. Instead, it’s wanting to accomplish something.

Do Just One Thing Better Than Anyone
Beverly Sills, America’s best known opera soprano, died yesterday and I was struck by a quote she made during a past New York Times interview.

Marketing Your Marketing
Don’t limit your marketing merely to the media you’re using. Market it all over the place. Anything worth promoting is worth cross-promoting.

Follow-Up or Fall on Your Face

Guerrilla marketing preaches to the skies the importance of customer follow-up and prospect follow-up if you have even the vaguest notion of succeeding in business. Why do most businesses lose customers? Poor service? Nope. Poor quality? Nope. Well, then why? Apathy after the sale. Most businesses lose customers by ignoring them to death. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to apathy after the sale.

My Work is Play to Me
Amy said a really nice thing to me the other day. We were talking and she said “One of the things I really admire about you is that your work is play to you.”

Do Your Investors Use Your Product?
Brad Spirrison has a nice article in the Chicago Sun-Times titled Feedburner’s investors have its technology at their fingertips. Among other things, he highlights that three of the FeedBurner investors – me, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures, and Matt McCall at Portage Ventures are active bloggers that use FeedBurner’s services regularly.

The Two Worlds of Marketing
Once you have even the spark of a notion to market online, let that spark ignite thoughts of how you'll promote your site. Have the insight to know this means thinking imaginatively about two worlds.

The Way of the Guerrilla

The goals of the 21st century guerrilla entrepreneur: work that is satisfying, enough money to enjoy freedom from worry about it, health good enough to take for granted, a bonding with others where you give and receive love and support, fun that is not pursued but is in the essence of daily living and longevity to appreciate with wisdom that which you have achieved. WHAT IS A GUERRILLA ENTREPRENEUR?

Small Business Using Video
A few days ago I asked readers to tell me the best ways they've seen people using video in marketing...

Day in Life of a VC-Backed CEO
A day in the life of a VC-backed CEO, via PE Hub. Oh, ouch.

Should You Force Your Investors To Use Your Product?
I had the following exchange with the CEO of one of my investments the other day. Q (Brad): It’s strange to me that only a few of the investors / board members are using Product X. Any insights?

I Blog, I Tweet, But Why
Fred Wilson has a great post up today titled Can We Live In Public? If you go back in time to May 4, 2004 when I started blogging, you'll see that Fred was one of the key inspirations with his post Transparency to my question of To Blog or Not to Blog. At the time, my interest came from a very simple place.

What I Don’t Know
What we don’t know about our markets, our customers, our products, our business is where our lack of growth and outright failure resides. Of course, the rub is this - on our own, we don’t know what we don’t know and are powerless to do anything about it.

The Rhythms of My Life

I was in a board meeting yesterday with a company planning a major commercial release of their product “at the end of summer”. We managed to turn this into 8/31/09 at 11:59:59pm pacific time (since I don’t believe you can release something unless there is a time/date stamp associated with it.) As part of this discussion, we spent some time discussing the notion of a daily / weekly / monthly rhythm for both the CEO/CTO as well as the product team.

Is Your Purpose Patent Still Pending?

Lots of business owners sit around the office tinkering with the notion of that one great innovation to be patented on the road to riches. Well, I think we’ve all got a patent in us but, for many, that patent remains forever pending. The patent I’m referring to is the “purpose patent” – your personal connection to work the serves a deeper purpose. That patent doesn’t need approval from the USPTO, it only needs approval from you.

Caring shouldn't be so contrived.
With Valentines coming up it got me thinking.. do we realy need an official day to care?

The Brain That Changes Itself
Here’s a tip-read Norman Doidge’s book “The Brain That Changes Itself.” The author points out that an astonishing new science called neuro-plasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable.

How to hire a SEO for Guaranteed Top 10 Ranking Services
Site owners thinking of hiring SEO companies for performance based SEO services need to clearly define what a top 10 ranking guarantee is. The slightly modified version of an old saying is especially true here, what you hear is may not what you get.

Characteristics of the entrepreneurs
Dream a big dream, big dreams attract a lot of people!

More Reasons Your Site Sucks
Your creative director needs to look at creative elements Web design company individually when they are designed and the entire page once all the elements come together.

DO SOMETHING!
Lack of confidence throughout an organization immobilizes and discourages, diverting energy from important tasks and wasting time and resources. To create the burning desire to win leaders must mobilize and engage the organization.

ASK - A Magic Little Word For Every Online Entrepreneur Who Wants To Get Wealthy
Many people, including a fair percentage of Internet marketers, have issues with asking for help under the mistaken belief that it shows ignorance or incompetence on their part. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Equity Markets are a Farce!

What drives an investor to buy a stock? Is it the fundamentals? The technicals? A combination of the two? Well I’m not quite certain anymore. You can basically throw all of the textbook answers out the window when it comes to today’s equity markets. Why do I say that? Because I believe that the only thing that is driving this market is the notion that the government is going to bail out everyone and their brother.

Happiness at work, depends on you by Talyn McArthur
Happiness: From Defining to Solving the Problem

Delegation - What is the role of a Manager?
Are you reluctant to let go of tasks because you fear someone else will do them better? People that struggle to delegate often stock pile their knowledge. They aren’t good at sharing skills, as they like to feel that they are needed. Being successful does not mean being that best at everything, but knowing when to use the right people to help.

HOLDING ONTO YOUR IDENTITY IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
In my speaking engagements lately, I’ve been talking to people about how to separate emotion from their finances entirely, and especially how to let go of the negative emotions - shame, fear, anxiety, blame and stress - that often come with debt.

Don't Go To Work Alone
In this short faith based insight. David Oliver unpacks the reaility that we don't have to be empowered by our own strength as the only source. He shows how to tap into the Almighty's Willing Partnership

Making emotive connections
Many believe humans beings are rationally motivated creatures, and by virtue of the decisions we make, we are more often that not, logical and considered by nature.

How Telling Your Story Can Generate More Sales
The real heart of copywriting is your story.

A Look at Tribes, We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
I wasn't surprised that Godin rolled up his sleeves to examine the topic of tribes, community and the impact the Internet has had on connectivity.

The End of Casual Friday
Would the business world function better if people dressed more formally? And has the current financial crisis spelled the end of casual Friday? In time of trouble should people be more intent and serious about their decorum and demeanor on the job?

THE TABLE STAKES FOR GREAT LEADERSHIP
Learn the characteristics of truly great leaders.

What should my sales team expect from a successful Sales Coach?

Successful sales coaching requires patience, a good ear, curiosity and of course the ability to provide individual sales people or sales teams with the right information at the right time. These relationships empower the recipients with knowledge and the confidence to maneuver themselves toward the right outcomes. Wisdom is knowledge applied. Therefore the sales coach prefers not to impart his wisdom directly, instead coaching the sales people or sales team to find their wisdom through their own questioning, answering and experiences.

Is it Time to Rebuild Society?
"When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought." John Stuart Mill

Favorite Home Based Business Opportunities
Starting a home based business is a great decision in any economy, but particularly when the economy is low, starting a business with low overhead and high earning potential is the safest way to start a new business.

Guidelines to Help Busineses Manage Friendships at Work
Recently, the pendulum has begun to swing away from the taboo notion that friendships at work threaten business results and toward what value may be inherent to having friendships in the workplace. Employers are rethinking old mandates that expected employees to keep their personal lives "outside."

ORGANIZE is Not a Four Letter Word
Go from overwhelmed to organized in a few simple steps.

SEO's Relationship With Website Architecture
SEO's relationship with web design is a natural one. By making sites simple and easily accessible, you are providing the easiest path for the search engine robots to index your site, at the same time that you are creating the optimum experience for your human visitors.

Leadership by the Living the Values
A leader's behavior is scrutinized every step of the way by his people. Whether he lives the company's values whole heartedly or not has a fundamental effect on how the company functions.

From Founder to Leader – Building a Company From an Idea

“Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.” -- Woody Allen Much has changed since Woody Allen came up with this line in 1977 – but the basic premise remains – any entrepreneur has the ability to bring an idea to fruition with the right backing. However, it takes more than money to make it work, and one of the main points of pain in building a company is making the transition from founder to leader. It’s a tough transition, and one that many startup founders fail to make.

The False Economy of “In-House”

The False Economy of "In-House" - Small businesses need to watch every dollar. Unfortunately, some expenditures seem reasonable but are, in reality, quite costly. These are called "false economies" and they can drive down your revenue even while you think you are saving money! In this article, learn about one classic false economy and discover how you can eliminate the problem and save money in your business with a solution that seems more expensive!

How Much Face-Time Does Your Website Need?
How much time does it take your website to deliver your marketing message? Assuming the site traffic you generate is the least bit interested in what you have to say, how much of what you're saying do they remember, or more to the point, how much do they need to remember?

To Arbonne Or Not To Arbonne : Effective Techniques Guaranteed To Help You Attract Dozens Into Your Arbonne Business

Becoming a 6-Figure income earner Arbonne Consultant is not a difficult thing to do! Yes you maybe finding it a little challenging to find people who are genuinely interested in building a sound Arbonne business, but that is no reason to give up. Following are 5 Proven steps that any Arbonne Ineternational Consultant can employ in order to realize your dream and become one of the many direct sales success stories.

Calculate the Cost of Shoplifting and Employee Theft

Shoplifting and employee theft cost the retailer a great deal in lost profits and everyone and everyone including the consumer pays for this crime. Unfortunately retailers often underestimate the actual figure in terms of losses. Unless a business has strict inventory control it is simple to come up short getting a good sense of overall losses. There is a basic formula for calculating total annual retail losses in your business, which will give you a fairly accurate idea of how much profits are actually walking out your door.

How to Create Magnificent Marketing Materials
Stand out. Get noticed. Be remembered. How do you do this? By creating marketing materials that really engage with your target audience and show them how you are different.

Home Based Small Business Opportunities You Can't Miss
Owning a small business is a great way to earn a living, but when you say “small business” you may be thinking “home based business.” Here are the differences between the two, as well as some business opportunities to look into.

Bernie Madoff: American Deception
There is an old joke, “Your investment specialist is interested in retirement planning. The problem is that it is his own, not yours.” New evidence suggests that this is less of a joke than we might think.

Strategic Thinking for Restaurant Business Operators
What is necessary now in operating a food service business today is the need to think, plan and act more strategically than you ever have before. To ask more complex questions and find deeper, more long term answers than you have probably ever done or felt the need to do.

Top 10 Tips For Developing A Great Computer Business Franchise
Recession makes business success tough, but applying a few simple pieces of wisdom to your IT business may be able to make a big difference in how well you fare.

Driving Guest Loyalty In An Economic Downturn

Yeah, yeah, another article about the same stuff to do in a down economy. Not really. I’m as fed up with them as you are - trust me, probably a lot more since they really don’t address anything that really matters. But this time I was reading, “The Importance of the Customer Experience in a Down Economy” and could not get past the introduction without my brain kicking into overdrive with references for our business.

Business Networkings 1 Myth Networking Selling
No other concept has caused so many people to hate or dislike networking than the idea that Networking = Selling. Learn the true equation that ultimately leads to the same destination ... Networking = Mutually Beneficial Relationships

How To Promote Your Business For Free By Hosting Your Own Online Giveaway

Have you ever wanted to find a unique way to market your website or business or services, or thought of joining a "free" online marketing cooperative known as a Giveaway? Have you visited online giveaways or seen them advertised and thought they were a great idea that you would like to try yourself; but just were not sure how or where to begin or what to expect? Well come along with me and I'll take you step-by-step on my journey as I start and run my very first Old-Fashioned...MyLadyWeb's Free Gift Giveaway event. You can learn from my triumphs and mistakes and decide for yourself if freely and cooperatively marketing your business and that of others through participating in—or even hosting—your own online giveaway is right for you.

Toward a better understanding and application of engagement
The improved model of the link between staff behaviour and strategy leads to a sharper and different view of engagement based on engagement as visualization. That is people guided to ‘see’ themselves acting out the ideals needed in the role to succeed and achieve the goals and KPIs. This is exactly the same notion as understood and sued in sports.

Customer Profiles for New Business
In 1906 an Italian Economist called Vilfredo Pareto created a mathematical formula based on observing that 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the population. Dr Joseph Juran, a Quality Management pioneer also recognised this universal principle that later became know as Pareto’s Principle or The 80-20 Rule.

How to Increase Sales for Your Service Business through Your Website
Many business owners have a common misunderstanding about what their website is supposed to be doing for their business that is costing them missed opportunities to directly increase sales. Most business owners have the misguided notion that their website is a marketing tool.

Emotions Drive Behavior Emotional Intelligence Training
Emotions Drive Behavior - Emotional Intelligence Training.

Positioning, “Social Polarity” and Vibrant Blog Communities

Blog communities and commenters play a role in defining the blogs they socialize in. What’s your community of blog commenters like? If you had a chance to build your blog all over again, what would you do differently? Blogs are great tools for knowledge sharing, and in essence the blogosphere is one gigantic self-organized online network of individuals sharing their raw and unedited thoughts openly. It’s a vibrant and ongoing conversation, and the saying “there’s strength in diversity” holds in this case.

Finding An Entrepreneurial Lifeline In A Life Of Quiet Desperation
Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." I would agree with that, but in these modern times, women must be added into the equation. I believe that is the people living these lives of quiet desperation that is fueling the current boom in online and offline entrepreneurs.

Ready, Aim, EXIT! Why Exiting Planning NOW Will Benefit Your NOW
Exit planning is an integral part of a successful, comprehensive business plan. But most business owners are so busy growing their business that the last thing they stop to consider is their Exit Strategy. If you really want to build your company to be all that it can be and more, you need to establish right up front what you’re going for and what it means to you when you get there.

Branding Is Not Selling Out ITS SELLING IN
Ever see an amazing band perform and wonder why you’ve never heard of them before? Ever see an astonishing artist on the street and wonder why isn’t their work isn’t in a gallery? Ever see an astounding independent film and wonder why people all over the world don’t know about it?

Your billion $ idea
How do you know if your fabulous new business idea will make you fabulously rich? Read this insightful article to test your startup idea.

The Powerful Sales Person
Customers don’t buy vehicles, and sales people don’t sell vehicles. Customers buy solutions to problems they can feel emotionally. Sales people are the conduit that helps customers discover those emotional solutions.

How to Stop Your Cold Calls From Losing Steam
We’ve all had the experience where everything seems to be going well during a cold call, and suddenly the person we’re talking to “hits the brakes.” They raise an objection and we start to panic, thinking we’re about to lose the sale.

Making Leadership Actionable: What We Are Learning and How We Can Use It

Much of the popular and academic literature on leadership has led to advice about what is required for effective leadership. This advice is usually flawed in that it does not provide guidance for how to learn to effectively apply the advice or because the advice is based on the practices of an individual in a specific context, a context that may or may not apply to the learner’s situation. An approach to leadership development based on seeing leadership as an emergent phenomenon, rather than just something that an individual does, is suggested.

Leverage Your Time and Energy - Untie Your Shoes!

A while ago, I wrote a short post for small business owners and managers called “Building a Sustainable Infrastructure”. In it, I touched briefly on the idea of leveraging your time and energy by addressing problems and challenges from the standpoint of sustainability, or how to solve problems for good, using the least possible amount of time and energy. This seems to be a topic of great interest and value for many of my clients, so I thought I’d finally give it some of the attention it truly deserves.

So Whats Your Strategy
When a serious attempt is made to transform any organization, the return on investment in the building and linking of strategies to accomplish the mission and vision of the organization will be substantial. Strategic thinking and planning will allow the organization to both sustain itself and grow. Strategy is where the rubber meets the road. Great strategies begin with solid leadership!

Remembering Wellness
Did you know that you can use the power of your mind to heal cancer, hypertension, asthma, ulcers, diabetes, depression, Parkinson's and even osteoarthritis?

Take Care of Yourself - Take Care of Your Business
Everyone knows how important it is to take care of you while building a business. It’s almost become a cliché – the expression coined by financial expert David Bach, “pay yourself first”, has come to represent across all disciplines, the notion of taking care of number one before turning your focus to the rest of a very needing world.

Lesson #1: Create a Powerful Brand
“The notion of the single man began in the 1950s,” says Hefner. “The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.”

Exercise Your Ultimate Freedom
The notion that “everything’s a choice” may not be a new one for you. That said, I seen it thrown around casually, mostly by those who don’t fully understand it. At first glance the notion doesn’t seem like a stretch, but it has significant implications. Read on to find out more.

Is Selling Simple or Complicated?
Tessa Stowe dispels the notion that selling is complicated and offers advice for finding a simple sales process.

Working Online - - Endless Possibility
Starting an Internet based business has never made more sense. Traditional brick and mortar is quickly becoming a notion of the past as entrepreneurs look at new ways of marketing themselves that get superior results.

Believe in Yourself – 7 Tips to Take Action and Achieve Your Goals
How many of us think of something we really want to do in our lives, but give up before we have even started? Do we come up with some fantastic idea, but instantly dismiss the notion as we determine that there is no way that we could possibly achieve it?

Top Value Brands (Part 1 of 2)
A recent study listed the "top value" brands. This three part series explores from a marketing perspective that which will help other businesses learn to be successful by delivering this notion of "value."

Is a great product and service enough to succeed?
Well that depends on your definition of success. There is a romantic notion in business that if my product and service is good enough, the business will basically take care of itself. This notion is incorrect. If anything a great product and service is just your starting point and ticket into the game.

Failure Is An Option
Too many operate on the notion that failure is bad. Learn how to use failure as a competitive advantage to improve results and reach your goals.

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