Archive for May, 2010

How to Use Social Media for Competitive Intelligence tells you something about using Social Media to spy on your competition…and hopefully improve your own sales and service. The simplest way is to search twitter for tweets about your competitors. What are they saying about them? Are they ecstatic at a new product? Are they complaining [...]

Why should you worry about Perfecting Your Follow Through? Actually it’s about long term income… here’s why… If you’re trying to get a project lined up for next week, it’s going to be a heck of a lot more difficult to find a brand-spanking-new client and convince that person to hire you. It’s going to [...]

According to Joe Mullich who writes for American Express’ OpenForum.com,the Institute for Local Self-Reliance found that local retailers in areas with strong buy local or think local campaigns increased sales by an average of 3 percent during the holidays. That’s nearly three times greater than areas without such campaigns. Businesses use a variety of approaches [...]

Poly Botsford writes: Virtual law firms: are they the place for you? It’s an interesting piece for lawyers in the UK who may wish to work at home as independent legal consultants. There is a small number of firms in the UK who have emerged since 1996 who operate in this fashion. Their attorneys who [...]

“Membership Has Its Privileges”… a popular marketing phrase by American Express. But long before American Express, there were financial entities that existed to provide financial benefits exclusively for it’s members and that is still true today. One such entity is the William Penn Association, a fraternal life insurance company who provided an authentic Hungarian Picnic, [...]

Nothing is worse for an entrepreneur than a wasted meeting… it’s neither an opportunity to make money nor a way to increase the odds of it later. But here’s a post about helping one of those seemingly “wasted meetings” bear fruit for the future when we remember one thing… “I don’t know who they know” [...]

High unemployment for hard working people does not mean that criminals and scammers are unemployed. Seemingly they run at full employment especially in economic downturns as this report shows: Scammers Prey On Job Seekers Far from having pity on the unemployed who are facing hard times, they are, in fact, seeking to manipulate them further. [...]

Have you suffered a serious injury? Have you been the victim of another person (or corporations) negligence or malfeasance? It is important to know your rights. Unless you have a law degree and currently practice, knowing your rights requires that you contact your own Los Angeles personal injury attorney right away. Click here for your [...]

From ODesk: Increasing number of Canadian women becoming ‘mompreneurs’ Citing a survey conducted by Leger Marketing on behalf of eBay Canada, the paper says that 33 percent of Canadians know a mother who has either started her own company or said she would like to. Despite the widespread interest, however, the survey found that only [...]

Personally I think the “Green Revolution” is mostly baloney… no, not baloney, pure evil. Why? Whenever politicians talk about saving the planet, I know their real goal… domination and control without having to explain themselves or otherwise justify their actions. Because governments are considered relatively free to act without many legal niceties during times of [...]