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Career Advice for Labor Day: Be Somebody

September 5, 2011 by Bud Bilanich with 34 views

When you take personal responsibility for your career success, you eliminate blame, stop complaining, and stop being a victim. [read more]

Doing Business in China: ‘Going Global’ Profiles Jihong Sanderson – Top Innovative China Brand Woman

May 31, 2010 by Margot Heiligman with 681 views

In ‘Going Global’ the series focuses on what it takes for small and mid-sized businesses to leap into new markets, achieve global reach, and potentially improve current business processes and outcomes by extending beyond domestic boundaries for both scale and expertise.   Bird's Nest Stadium, China, [photo by Andrey... [read more]

Ecommerce Forecast Bullish

April 15, 2010 by Steve King with 138 views

eMarketer is forecasting U.S. ecommerce will grow rapidly over the next five years reaching $224 billion  in 2014.  The chart below is from their most recent forecast report.            The forecast is in part based on the growing ubiquity of Internet use for researching product and... [read more]

Go Global Or Your Business Will Die

April 13, 2010 by Laurel Delaney with 174 views

Why do I feel like the whole world is catching up to us on the importance of entrepreneurs and small businesses taking their business global? Take this special report on America's economy entitled, "Export or Die," published by The Economist (3/31/10). It drives home the point that with demand dwindling or in some instances totally... [read more]

A Question of Entrepreneurship

January 5, 2010 by Dennis Faust with 224 views

I recently met a lawyer/entrepreneur who has developed a communications training model based around the notion of questioning. As a litigator, his specialty was in preparing, examining and cross-examining expert witnesses, and so over the years he became, what can only be described as, an expert questionner. Prior to meeting him, I... [read more]

Infinity--they keep making more of it

April 29, 2009 by Seth Godin with 120 views

If you had a little business in a little town, there was a natural limit to your growth. You hit a limit on strangers (no people left to pitch), some became friends, some became customers and you then went delivered as much as you could to this core audience. Every day wasn't spent trying to get bigger.There's no limit now. No limit... [read more]

Accountability Part 5

March 23, 2009 by Tim Berry with 70 views

(This is the fifth and final part of a five-part series on accountability posted first on Small Business Trends. The search box on this blog should get you the first four. ) In 1998 I was walking to lunch with the accountant — outside accountant, CPA, partner in a regional firm — who handled our Palo Alto Software business. Making... [read more]

#1 Sales Mistake; Five Fastest; Best Use of Twitter; Grade Your Website

March 2, 2009 by Verne Harnish with 193 views

"...keeping you great" HEADLINES:People who own tomorrow are preparing for it today. African ProverbI could use your help if you're a fan of my book (see below), but first...Don't Sell Benefits, Focus on Loss Avoidance -- Dr. Victoria Medvec, the negotiations guru from Northwestern University, flew across the pond to keynote our Sydney... [read more]

Using decision management to build loyalty and grow

July 3, 2008 by JamesTaylor with 42 views

Three articles on loyalty caught my eye this week. First 1:1 had a nice piece on Loyalty Equals Growth for Sony. Sony is a company to which many people are already loyal so it was interesting to see that a formal loyalty program was still a priority for them. Talking about their combined CRM and customer loyalty plan the article said:... [read more]

Second Chance on Globalizing Your Small Business

June 5, 2008 by JerryB with 131 views

For those of you who missed our most recent webinar called Globalizing Your Small Business,  the video is now available in our archieved webcasts community.  Hans-Peter Klaey, President of Global SME for SAP, John M. Jordan, head of the Center for Digital Transformation at Penn State and Ed Pisula Jr., Director of Corporate IT... [read more]

Google Set for World Domination

January 31, 2008 by Andy Beal with 133 views

If Yahoo’s earnings were disappointing and the economy slowing, there’s a piece of bright news today. Google is announcing their earnings today. The word Forbes used to describe what to expect from Google stock is stellar growth. The number in the article is a 40% increase in net income. This despite Google losing a small slice of the... [read more]

Surviving Hospitals

January 3, 2008 by Verne Harnish with 107 views

"...keeping you great" Ten Minutes with the Growth Guy  HEADLINES: (Theme: Power of Checklists) Surviving Intensive Care -- if you or a loved one might EVER end up in an I.C.U. please take five minutes and read this article -- and take it to your local hospital administrator and ask them "are your teams using these simple... [read more]

Is Your Company "Change-Ready"?

December 18, 2007 by JerryB with 129 views

IDC White Paper Business Agility as Growth Enabler: How Can Midsize Firms Manage Change in an Increasingly Demanding World? (pdf)IDCBusinessAgilityasGrowthEnabler.pdf [read more]

Public Apology

December 7, 2007 by Verne Harnish with 34 views

"...keeping you great" Ten Minutes with the Growth Guy HEADLINES: NOTE: iPhone, Blackberry, or PDA versions of my "Growth Guy" Weekly Insights are now available in easy-to-read blog form. Click this link to register at Viigo. Then select Business>Entrepreneurship. You will be able to add "The Growth Guy" blog to your mobile device.... [read more]

BSG Alliance Acquires Don Tapscott's New Paradigm

November 29, 2007 by hoyamann with 36 views

Don and I go back a few years.  So I am so happy to see this happen for him and the rest of the New Paradigm team.  BSG alliance  a company trying to deliver "Enterprise 2.0 technology, operating models and applications to the market" has acquired New Paradigm for an undisclosed sum.    I think this is a good... [read more]

Aggie 100

November 29, 2007 by Verne Harnish with 158 views

"...keeping you great" Ten Minutes with the Growth Guy HEADLINES: Aggie 100 Celebration -- today (November 29) Miner Corporation is celebrating their naming to the Aggie 100 list -- here's a link to the video they produced to celebrate the win. I thought the invitation, party, and video were good models for those of you wanting to... [read more]

People Acumen

November 28, 2007 by Lisa Haneberg with 62 views

Here is an article written by Ram Charan - an excerpt from his book, Leaders at all Levels. Great concept and much needed, I think. People Acumen by Ram Charan Leadership is predicated on the ability to mobilize others to accomplish a vision, a goal, or a task. Leaders can't do everything; they get other people to do things through... [read more]

Why blog?

November 28, 2007 by AlexanderMuse with 44 views

In 2005 I began blogging about my experiences producing a reality television show called MotorSport Ranch. The title of the blog was ‘How to create, produce and air your reality television idea‘ where I decided to ‘open source’ the making of the show. I revealed all of our mistakes, failures, screw-up and even provided detailed buget... [read more]

Webinar: Using Social Media to Grow Your Business

November 28, 2007 by ablebrains with 54 views

A shameless plug: On December 7 @ 1PM ET, Seth Godin (ever notice Seth and I have the same barber!), Jeremiah Owyang and myself will be on a Webinar panel sponsored by myventurepad.com.  We will be focusing on how to leverage social media to drive your business and focusing on such topics as: How can you engage your best sales... [read more]

Which States Love Small Business

November 27, 2007 by Barry Moltz with 60 views

CNN Money writes last week about where the tax and regulatory climate is best for for small business. They quote Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council’s latest ranking which puts, drum roll please: South Dakota at the very top. It does not tax personal income or capital gains, corporate income or  capital gains. Fuel is... [read more]

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