Sun.Jul 17, 2011

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Small business and startup tips: training day!

crowdSPRING Blog

Just like our larger brethren in the Fortune 100, lots of small businesses have training programs for their workers: lectures, classes, role-playing exercises, and motivational speaker sessions. However, most small businesses and startups ignore training programs altogether, or cobble together ad hoc strategies when on-boarding new hires. These differing approaches are sometimes stylistic, sometimes strategic, often driven by economics, and sometimes prompted by the company’s own culture.

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Product Evangelism

SVPG

In my last article I wrote about the importance of product passion , and I said that one of the reasons this passion is necessary is for product evangelism. Product evangelism is, as Guy Kawasaki put it years ago, “selling the dream.” It’s helping people to imagine the future, and inspiring them to help create that future. If you’re a startup founder or CEO, this is a very big part of your job, and you’ll have a hard time assembling a strong team if you don’t

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Find the Best of the Best Blogs for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

With as many as 100 million active blogs (web logs) in English alone on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? I’m a speed reader, but that’s a challenge for even the best of us. Yet we know keeping up with the latest trends and techniques can make all the difference in ensuring that your business stands the test of time.

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More innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog Cisco’s tablet wrinkles “Social” Architecture Pyrotechnic Science Technology at the Home Depot.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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[Review] Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People

YoungUpstarts

One of the challenges that any business has is making sure that employees are happy and fully contributing to the business. It’s an even bigger challenge for small businesses and startups, who often can’t compete with the pay and financial perks that larger organizations can give. So how do you get your people to do their best? Business strategist and speaker Brian Tracy, who’s written 50 books and produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs on management, motivati

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An SEO Reminder – What Do Your Customers Really Want?

Rembrandt Communications

In past entries, I’ve talked about how SEO (search engine optimization) copywriting is all about providing value to your customers. Well, the number one way to do that is to give your customers what they want. And how do you do that? Ask them! Find a free and simple tool like Survey Monkey, Zoomerang or [.].

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Mommy Book Club

entrepreMusings

Call me crazy, but I’ve joined a book club with currently 14+ moms from the neighborhood. I love reading. I love reading good fiction because I find there is so much tie to real life. I work full time and have two kids so I haven’t had time to really read much for the last 8+ years. I’m hoping that belonging to a book club, something I haven’t really done before, will get me back into reading.

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