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Monthly Archives: October, 2010
How Can You Get More People to Read Your Blog?
We’ve talked before about using blogs as a way to raise social capital, build a community of followers, create some great writing samples, build a strong brand/reputation and participate in the conversation about your niche. But once you have a blog (one full of helpful, useful or entertaining content), and you’ve done what you can [...]
In the Social Media Era, Do You Still Need Business Cards?
“Friend” me; “like” this; “follow” that guy. In this age of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the concept of business cards might seem like a dated one. After all, how can you hand someone a cardboard rectangle when you communicate almost entirely online? And isn’t all of your relevant info already out there on your profiles [...]
Motivational Speaking World Loses a Star: Keith Harrell Passes Away
Keith Harrell, renowned motivational speaker and former top sales and training instructor at IBM, passed away on Monday, October 18, 2010 after a battle with spinal cancer. He was 52. Keith was a Seattle native who played high school and college basketball. He led his high school to an undefeated season in 1973-74 and helped [...]
Get Creative! Ten Tips to Stimulate Your Creativity
Being creative is sometimes seen as a bad thing in a world of gray cubicles and reliable, predictable patterns. We get into routines and ruts and processes designed for maximum efficiency and minimum thought. But creativity is what stimulates innovation, growth, entrepreneurship and the forward progress that keeps society evolving. Being creative means thinking outside [...]
Twitter: Small Business Ad Product Coming, But Should We Bother?
Ah, Twitter…. The 140-character micro-blogging platform that is sitting comfortably as the third-most-used social network (of course, Facebook is at number one). Roughly 165 million people use Twitter to send out short messages, blast tips and links to followers, and build their social capital. Twitter’s co-founder even made the bold (yet mostly unsubstantiated) prediction the [...]
How to Be a “Coachable” Entrepreneur
If you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner, you probably want (and need) a little help financially. Angel investors are a great way to get the capital you can use to help your business idea take off. But making your pitch to potential investors can be a nerve-wracking experience. Angel investors, after all, typically use [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials Now Available to Small Businesses for Free
Running a small business isn’t cheap. Licensing software for multiple computers can often be a particularly costly aspect of small business. Now, Microsoft is helping a bit with the software burden by changing the licensing terms of Microsoft Security Essentials. Starting yesterday, small businesses can download and install Microsoft Security Essentials on up to ten [...]
Beating Writer’s Block
If you’re a small business owner, marketer, entrepreneur, blogger or creative writer, you know what writer’s block feels like. You stare at the screen, struggling for words, but the ad copy/blog post/short story/etc. that you’re working on doesn’t spring easily to your mind. How do you deal with the perils of writer’s block, maintain your [...]
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