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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements. The wild turkey variety. A turkey is only a metaphor. That’s where the companies who are just good at marketing tend to crumble. That had never occurred to me.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. And as I like to say, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.”

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PR Disasters: How Your Business Can Bounce Back (Tiger Woods Style)

Mike Michalowicz

We awoke on Friday morning from our turkey induced slumber to find out that Tiger Woods’ wife beat him up overnight. The post PR Disasters: How Your Business Can Bounce Back (Tiger Woods Style) appeared first on Mike Michalowicz. Who will ever forget the Thanksgiving of 2009? Tiger laid on the ground with facial lacerations.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States and traditionally, most families make a turkey for dinner. Suddenly, the turkey I plan to make for Thanksgiving seems so spartan - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! But sometimes, people go way overboard.

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

A turkey is a turkey – [link]. Five Predictions For The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship | Forbes – [link]. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. A poor effort to defend a P/E ratio of 666 (Salesforce). 6 Signs You’re Not Fit to Lead – [link].

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Got A Million Dollar Idea?

YoungUpstarts

Everything flows from it, including strategy, operations, staffing, team building, product development, branding and PR. Ask yourself what the quantifiable basis is for which you’ll determine if you have a winning idea or a turkey. Define value. This basis is value, and creating value is how an idea becomes a moneymaker.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” What their initial feedback has been?

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