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The Older Entrepreneur's Guide to Success - Older Entrepreneurs - Entrepreneur.com

2010-05-28T15:47:00.000-07:00

The Older Entrepreneur's Guide to Success - Older Entrepreneurs - Entrepreneur.com

Zuckerberg: Facebook answers privacy concerns

2010-05-24T11:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37314726/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post/?GT1=43001

Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more. If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that's more open and connected is a better world. These are still our core principles today.
Facebook has been growing quickly. It has become a community of more than 400 million people in just a few years. It's a challenge to keep that many people satisfied over time, so we move quickly to serve that community with new ways to connect with the social Web and each other. Sometimes we move too fast — and after listening to recent concerns, we're responding.
The challenge is how a network like ours facilitates sharing and innovation, offers control and choice, and makes this experience easy for everyone. These are issues we think about all the time. Whenever we make a change, we try to apply the lessons we've learned along the way. The biggest message we have heard recently is that people want easier control over their information. Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark.

How to Build a Million Dollar Business | Owners Only | BNET

2010-05-14T10:25:00.000-07:00

How to Build a Million Dollar Business Owners Only BNET

The Brand Within: The Four Stages of Product Evolution | Business & E-Business | InformationWeek SMB

2010-04-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

The Brand Within: The Four Stages of Product Evolution Business & E-Business InformationWeek SMB

The Brand Within: The Four Stages of Product Evolution | Business & E-Business | InformationWeek SMB

2010-04-27T19:27:00.000-07:00

The Brand Within: The Four Stages of Product Evolution Business & E-Business InformationWeek SMB

Branding Lessons From The Star Of 'Shark Tank' - Forbes.com

2010-04-27T19:24:00.000-07:00

Branding Lessons From The Star Of 'Shark Tank' - Forbes.com
What a Story

Gmail - Work-life balance takes discipline - silaspressley@gmail.com

2010-04-03T20:48:00.001-07:00

Gmail - Work-life balance takes discipline - silaspressley@gmail.com

Types Of Marketing

2010-03-23T14:41:00.000-07:00

Marketing In The Digital Economy
Understanding how important Variables are shifting is the key to successful marketing in the digital economy..

Permission-Based Marketing
Email Marketing
Website Personalization

Database Marketing
Demographics, Geographic location, Past buying behavior, attitudes and preference

Direct Marketing
Face-to-Face selling
Direct-mail/catalog marketing

115 Marketing Strategies For Small Business | Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Blog

2010-02-17T17:54:00.000-08:00

115 Marketing Strategies For Small Business Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Blog
115 Marketing Strategies that can increase you bottom line as a small business.

PACinc.: Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review

2010-02-17T17:34:00.001-08:00

PACinc.: Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review

Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review

2010-02-17T17:34:00.000-08:00

Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test - The Conversation - Harvard Business Reviewd
Test your self to see if you are ready to become a Entreprneur or should you stay working for one.

Funds with Business Credit

2010-01-11T15:49:00.000-08:00

If you are a small business owner..Here is some GREAT information on using business credit and not your personal.
www.bcsarecredit.com/leads/download.php

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off | Video on TED.com

2009-12-09T08:29:00.001-08:00

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off Video on TED.com
Amazing Video

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off | Video on TED.com

2009-12-09T08:29:00.000-08:00

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off Video on TED.com

Stefan Sagmeister is a great designer one of the best..Take a look at this video it amazing..

Its about taking time off is the key to success (The Power of Time off)

Top Tips: Six Ways To Keep Your Cool At Work

2009-11-30T16:18:00.000-08:00

The Double Blow
No, this doesn't mean give your colleague a jab to the gut followed by an elbow to the face. This trick, courtesy of Dr. Robert Epstein, instructor at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego, works like this: As your rage swells, exhale fully and then, just as you're at the end of your exhale, blow hard. This expels the remaining air that's trapped in your lungs and counteracts the dangerous tendency to breathe shallowly when you feel threatened. "Shallow breathing circulates toxins in your bloodstream and makes you panicky," says Dr. Epstein.

Verbal Jujitsu
Berated by a co-worker or a frustrated superior? Dr. Debra Condren, founder of Manhattan Business Coaching and author of Ambition Is Not A Dirty Word, a career guide for women, has a solution: "I keep my face neutral, make sure I'm breathing and staying calm, with my feet planted any my body relaxed," she says. When the other person's verbal screed is done, Condren utters flatly: "I hear what you're saying," or "I can see you have strong feelings about this issue." The lack of visible reaction snuffs the emotional wick.

Don't Curse (It Makes You Angrier)
If you can't manage complete stoicism, at least do your best to clamp down on the obscenities, even if they come naturally to you. Swear once and your adversary may well fire back. After a few volleys, fisticuffs aren't far behind. "Swearing intensifies anger and adds to its incivility," says Jim O'Connor, author of Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing.

Avoid Assumptions
A co-worker is late, and it's looking like you'll have to do that joint presentation alone. His fecklessness is infuriating. Before it engulfs you, says Dr. Simon Rego, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York, pause to consider all the things that could have happened. Perhaps his child is sick or his car broke down. Avoid assumptions--or as Rego calls them, "cognitive distortions"--which can lead to blame and anger. Says Rego: "Once these distortions can be identified, challenged and replaced with more helpful coping thoughts, the feelings of anger should decrease."

Don't Take Things Personally
It's in our DNA to perceive personal slights--but that's usually not the case, says Marty Brenner, anger management counselor in Beverly Hills, Calif. Brenner recalls a client who stopped by his ex-wife's house to pick up his child for court-scheduled visit only to find his ex-wife had forgotten about the visit and the child was at a friend's house. Brenner's client almost exploded. Then he took a breath and told himself that his wife wasn't sabotaging him. "His first thought was to be aggressive verbally," says Brenner. "Then he realized that anything he said would not change the person or the situation." (Good move: Indeed, his ex had forgotten about the visit.)

Know Your Triggers
Plenty of people get angry, but they don't know why. Look for anger-inducing patterns and jot them down, says Marty Babits, author of The Power of the Middle Ground, A Couple's Guide to Renewing Your Relationship. This takes hearty doses of self-honesty and willingness to accept the truth. If certain people get on your nerves, then, well, they just do. In many cases, your best bet is simply to recognize who they are and avoid them whenever possible. (If that sounds cold, take comfort in knowing that you are doing them a favor.)

Zuckerberg: Why I Stayed Facebook CEO Even Though Many People Thought I Should Quit

2009-11-24T07:10:00.001-08:00

Zuckerberg: Why I Stayed Facebook CEO Even Though Many People Thought I Should Quit

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Made to Stick: Selling Your Innovation

2009-11-24T06:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/innovation/video/made-to-stick-selling-your-innovation-1

Facebook Ceo on Leadership

2009-10-15T08:56:00.000-07:00

Loving what you do will keep you grounded to become successful.
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-zuckerberg-founder-vs-ceo

Good Product Plan

2009-10-13T09:06:00.000-07:00

This is a great example of Product Placement Global Brand between Procter & Gamble and McDonalds
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/945345/P-G-President---CEO-McDonald-outlines-company-plans-AGM/

5 ways to grow without going broke

2009-09-30T10:35:00.000-07:00

Very good information for small businesses.
http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/09/startups-financial-tips-entrepreneurs.html

How Facebook got started

2009-09-21T07:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/adam-penenberg/penenberg-post/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-viral-loops?partner=homepage_newsletter

Aspiring Managers: Learn to Behave Like an Adult

2009-09-14T12:36:00.000-07:00

Try to act like a mature adult. As I alluded to above, the best managers are those rare individuals who actually behave like mature adults. What does that mean? It means being as honest, comfortable, and empathetic with your own issues and shortcomings as you are with your strengths and skills. Only then can you do the same for others, and that’s what good managers do.

Do the work - hands on. Work your tail off learning the basics of your trade and industry, whatever that is, while you still can - before you get promoted and lose the opportunity. Why? No matter how smart you are, that’s the only way to get hands-on experience that will engender respect from employees and help you to make effective management decisions down the road.

Become adept at 5 things: finance, selling, presenting, negotiating, and business communications.
Finance.

I don’t care if you manage engineering, HR, IT, sales, whatever, you need to learn about finance. Why? Because that’s how companies are run and how business works. period.
Selling. To sell your own programs internally you have to learn how to open doors, help constituents and peers to make informed decisions, and close deals.
Presenting.

It’s hard to imagine your career going anywhere unless you can deliver an effective presentation. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t born with the presentation gene.

Negotiating. Negotiation skills are critical to resolving conflicts, driving consensus among peers and other key constituents, and developing your own career.

Communicating. Great managers are also great communicators; it’s a critical success skill. Unfortunately, they don’t teach you about business communications in school.

Ten Characteristics of Great Companies

2009-09-04T08:22:00.000-07:00

.1) Great companies are constantly innovating and delighting their customers/users with new products and services

.2) Great companies are built to last and be independent and sustainable. Great companies don't sell out.

3) Great companies make lots of money but leave even more money on the table for their users and partners

.4) Great companies don't look elsewhere for ideas. They develop their ideas internally and are copied by others

.5) Great companies infect their users/customers with their brand. They turn their users and customers into marketing/salesforces

.6) Great companies are led by entrepreneurs who own a meaningful piece of the business. As such, they make decisions based on long term business needs and objectives not short term goals

.7) Great companies have a global mindset. They treat every person in the world as a potential customer/user

.8) Great companies are attempting to change the world in addition to making money.

.9) Great companies are not reliant on any one person to deliver their value proposition

.10) Great companies put the customer/user first above any other priority.

Are You Killing Enough Ideas?

2009-09-03T11:23:00.001-07:00

Are You Killing Enough Ideas?

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The Endless Flow of Russell Simmons - Entrepreneur.com

2009-09-01T06:33:00.001-07:00

The Endless Flow of Russell Simmons - Entrepreneur.com

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10 companies you didn't know Warren Buffett owned - Related Stories - SmartBrief on Leadership

2009-08-31T19:03:00.001-07:00

10 companies you didn't know Warren Buffett owned - Related Stories - SmartBrief on Leadership

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6 tips for an open office that works - Related Stories - SmartBrief on Workforce

2009-08-31T18:52:00.001-07:00

6 tips for an open office that works - Related Stories - SmartBrief on Workforce

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T.A.L. Foundation

2009-08-24T11:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.wxii12.com/video/20513642/index.html

Benefit Concert For Shawn Pressley

6 tips for creating an open office that works

2009-08-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

6 tips for creating an open office that works

Think about this can your time be manage better while at work