article thumbnail

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:00): Hey, this is John, and before we get started, I have a gift for you for being such an amazing listener. I mean, there were a number of issues, and he wanted it to be able to do a lot more than just have its email usage. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

article thumbnail

Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

Often, it’s something “small”: a smile, a pat on the back, a compliment, or an encouraging email. I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992. Email them inspiring quotes and stories.

America 154
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Set It And Forget It: Seven Messages For A Seamless, Hassle-Free Marketing Campaign

YoungUpstarts

In a day filled with putting out fires, dealing with employee issues, and sweet talking customers, the last thing any small business owner wants to have to do is squeeze in time to run to their office to send out an email to their prospects and customer list. It should be a quick follow-up message to make sure they received email #1.

Campaign 154
article thumbnail

How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. In the meantime follow along here, drop us a line , or email me directly at ajwatson@thinktiv.com.

article thumbnail

Ten Predictions for 2030

Seeing Both Sides

Looking back 19 years ago (1992), I realize that I had my first cell phone, dial up access to bulletin boards, a love affair with email, and was doing consulting for AT&T on Apple’s first mobile computing device, the Newton. We ended up making a provocative list of what we called “10, 2030” – ten predictions for the year 2030.

Florida 43
article thumbnail

Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong.

article thumbnail

20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I usually start my day before dawn, login and check emails. In 1992, I published my first best-selling book, The On-Purpose Person, Making Your Life Make Sense. At first we considered hundreds of potential names, created software to look for URLs, asked friends, made Facebook posts, held meetings and drank a lot. None of it worked.

Naming 77