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- Update: Gambling On Business With Friends
- Our poll on how to handle a partner who takes a big gamble on your business has generated some mixed responses, with no clear winner. When you bring personal relationships into starting a business, it appears the old "stick to the deal, no matter how painful it is to the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Would Anyone Tell a Friend?
- Shop.org's Strategy & Information Forum is going on this week in Orlando. The theme this year: Web 2.0 and it’s implications for retailing. Neil Clemmons from the Experience Matters blog is attending and picked up a simple but powerful insight from keynote speaker, Andy Sernovitz, one of the founders of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Business with Friends: A Balancing Act
- Two years ago, I went into business with one of my oldest friends, opening an Internet sales company. Our first year went well, but business stalled our second year and my friend argued that we needed to bring in a consultant to help us gauge our status and develop new...
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Using Connections; Getting Used
- A friend and former coworker, let's call her Sarah, recently saw on LinkedIn that my friend, we'll call her Tammy, works for a company she was applying to. Sarah has never met Tammy, and Sarah said that she wasn't 100 percent sure she was qualified for the job (she took...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Which Friends Most Influence Online Purchasing?
- Do the purchases made by your online friends influence what you buy? This is a critical question for marketers to solve. If they know that Sally's shoe buying preferences are noticed and copied by eight of her friends on social networking sites, then a program targeting Sally...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Hang With Losers = You're a Loser
- Look at your friends, your family and your colleagues. Are they generally successful, or do their lives smack of failure? Are they motivated to be their best, or do they complain about hard knocks? Do they pay attention to health, or are they out-of-shape? These are important questions for...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- GTD: Creepy Cult or Perfect Approach to Productivity?
- I was chatting with a colleague the other day about time and task management. When I mentioned David Allen's Getting Things Done approach, he surprised me by shuddering and saying, "Ugh, that cult thing." Huh? Cult? Here I was thinking GTD was a pretty good (okay, perhaps...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Does Burger King's Facebook 'Whopper Sacrifice' Go Too Far?
- Burger King's latest advertising stunt has gotten even more attention than its $3.99 burger-scented body spray. If you delete 10 of your Facebook friends using the "Whopper Sacrifice" application, you get a coupon for a free Whopper -- and your ex-friends get notifications letting them know what you've done and...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Donald Trump's Negotiation Mind Games
- A friend of mine just sold his company to Donald Trump. The story he told me about the negotiation with Trump not only provides some insight in Trump's negotiating skills, but also illustrates an important point about "selling high." Even if your prospect is an uber-bigwig,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Are You Witty in E-mail? You Might Be the Only One Who Thinks So
- I like to think of myself as reasonably humorous, especially when it comes to the written word. My e-mail correspondence with friends is often witty and clever, and we enjoy giving each other a good electronic ribbing almost as much as an in-person joshing. But, as Harvard's...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Online Networking: Quality, Not Quantity, Matters
- When you open your Facebook profile and see a friend request from someone you've never met, consider this before you hit "accept": the more online contacts people have, the less their networking power. This is according to new research conducted by Professor Zsolt Katona from the Haas...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- No Real Friends? There's a Business Book for That
- The Find: Building relationships is a key business skill, but if you're a leader who failed to learn the basics of creating lasting and trusting friendships in elementary school, one book aims to offer a refresher course. The Source: Keith Ferrazzi, CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight and best-selling...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Business Hacks Best of the Week (June 1, 2009)
- At the risk of excessive horn-tooting: Wow, did we post some killer stuff last week. Like what, you ask? Well, like this: Edit Your Google Docs Offline in Microsoft Office with OffiSync Fight Conficker, Other Security Threats with OpenDNS Nail Your Response to an Online...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Sales Maxims For Life
- Article displays 20 maxims for sales. It states that a true salesman is not simply a passive order-taker. If not aggressively interested in making the sale, it won't be there. Motion creates emotion. A motionless salesman creates nothing. All things being equal, people would rather buy from their friends. It...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Advertising Yourself to Friends
- Did one know that many of his or her friends do not know exactly what one does to make money? It happens more often than one would like to think to small businesses. Since people like to do business with friends, it is important to help them to know what...
- White papers 2006-04-11
- Debunking The Coming "2008 Tax Boon"
- Here is a question the author recently received from a friend and thought it very important to pass it on to you along with an explanation: the author have heard that 2008 is a free year for capital gains. His friend said one can sell in 2008 with better tax...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- How To Enhance Your Professional Speaking
- Give your audience something of value by becoming their friend. Sometimes you may need to stop thinking of yourself as a professional speaker and start thinking of yourself a close personal friend of the audience member. You'll teach them something and give them advice. You'll sound more natural in our...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Elusive Fail-Safe Time Management Strategy
- Better gatekeeper means less organizing to do. Make friends with the concept of time and its limits. Time management is NOT about making more of it. It's not about turning yourself in to an efficient robot that never wastes a moment. It's about learning to flow within the time that...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- How To Be A Professional Speaker
- Improve and refine your speech. Ask for comments from the people who attend, and use these comments to improve. Record or video tape your presentation. Compare what you hear with what you want to be doing. Bring a friend to watch you speak, and then ask your friend for candid...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Promoting Your Business Through Social Networking
- Now you know what the social networking sites are, but how do you promote your business through them? The thing about promotion through social networking is that it takes time, and it is not a quick way of advertising (that is, until you actually make your move). It takes a...
- White papers 2007-07-18
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