Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

I started my career, "carrying a bag," as a marketing representative for IBM.I had some decent success. But in my most successful year, I didn't make one sale until May of that year, yet won a half dozen district and regional awards and was recognized as one of the top sales people in the entire division of more than 20,000 sales people. I had spent the first four and half months of the year researching each and every customer in my territory as well as some key prospects.In those days, that mea

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'I was in Chicago when the Red Sox won Game 6 of the World Series. There was muted interest in that baseball savvy town. Change Red to White and you would have had a very different vibe. Earlier in that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'Brands are people first. Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Thus it’s not a surprise that people love their favorite smartphone brand, cringe when you mention their cable company, or even hate the mention of a particular bank. Startups, as well as every existing business, need to realize that this brand perception is becoming more and more driven by their relationships with customers, as well as feedback from other customer brand rela

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'Interestingly, the large majority of venture capitalists are very friendly. It’s for the same reason that as a group, orthodontists tend almost universally to be more friendly than surgeons. ["Whaaaa?!?"! I hear you ask. Think about it for a bit, and particularly if you''ve had personal experiences with either/both groups.]. The latter profession sees you by referral from another doctor, operates on you while you’re asleep, and rarely sees you again.

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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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'Brian Lakamp is the President of Digital for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and oversees the company’s digital strategy, which includes iHeartRadio. He previously served as Executive VP of Digital Media at Premiere Radio Networks, co-founder of online music startup Fluxe, and Senior VP of Digital Policy at Sony Pictures Entertainment. Over the past two years, I’ve been tasked with helping to grow the consumer audience for iHeartRadio , Clear Channel’s digital all-in-one music service, i

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'I played football my freshman year in high school. I was skinny, but not the smallest. Danny was. Danny wasn’t naturally gifted and clearly didn’t have the football physique. But Danny did have one thing that was greater than any other player, he was relentlessly persistent. Danny was always the first player at practice and the last to leave the field.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'Weekend Favs November Nine written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. photo credit: blmiers2 via photopin cc.

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'Product people: Stand your ground. If you’re being pushed by engineering to begin development, threatening you’ll otherwise lose your development resources, but you think there’s still crucial product strategy, product definition or customer development work to be completed, stand your ground. If you’re being cornered into an arbitrary market launch date that adds an unreasonable […].

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

'Herbert Lui does marketing for clients such as Pivotal Labs , Busy Building Things , and Renegades. He is the author of a free guide to building credibility online. This post was originally published on his Medium blog. When Kobe was developing his jumper he’d spend his offseason making 2,000 shots a day. Not taking. Making. — Chad Ridgeway, Bleacher Report.

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