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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Much has been made in the blogosphere about using Twitter for business. Twitter, you will recall, is a micro-blogging site that limits your posts to 140 characters. People use it for anything from telling everyone what they ate for lunch to asking for advice to pointing people to ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
When I was in high school, I worked in my parents' janitorial services company. It was a straightforward industry where virtually anyone with a mop and bucket could start a business- and did they ever! As the job market grew tighter, more and more “fill-in-the-blank’s cleaning services” kept ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I usually like to talk tech in my blog entries, but today I'm digressing a bit in the interest of health. I was in the middle of a four mile run the other day when I realized just how out of shape I am - a real desk potato. A ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
If you own your own business and have a little success, at some point you will be looking for an employee. Employees of small businesses tend to be a little different from employees of large firms. For instance, instead of looking for someone who is the best at ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
This morning Carl "tweeted" a link to a Wall Street Journal Article about CEO's dressing casual. Its a good read, and its right up my alley. I hate wearing suits and ties.
Favorite quote of the article: "A suit has become something you wear when you're asking for money."
The ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I wouldn't normally write on the same topic twice, but I have been so enamored with the tribe I wrote about last week that I figured it was worth an update for those who have not joined. So far, the tribe has been a complete success, cementing Seth Godin ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
A few days ago I had a little spare time and I sat down and *gasp* read an actual magazine. I wanted to feel smart, so I read The Atlantic, which is kind of like The New Yorker, only with pictures. The articles tend to be in-depth, and ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
This week, marketing guru Seth Godin had an interesting blog entry. He writes a funny little blurb about how the vast majority of people think they are smarter than average, and probably think they are righter than average, too. Customers have a very hard time admitting they are ...
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