How to Build Awareness of Your Online Service

How to Build Awareness of Your Online Service: "To attract users to a new social network, prepare to show them why it beats the competition. Then determine where your consumers hang out online and reach out to them there"

From Inspiration to Incorporated: Writing a Business Plan

From Inspiration to Incorporated: Writing a Business Plan: "When Sarah Prevette founded Upinion, her first start-up company, she admits that she “got caught up” in what she thought was an amazing idea:  a pop culture opinion-sharing website for teens.  “I thought it was going to be the next big thing,” she says.  “I thought people would just flock to it, and that certainly wasn’t the case.”"

Building the Team You Need to Drive Change

Building the Team You Need to Drive Change: "Major organizational change is not something that can be driven from the top down by the CEO alone. It requires a team of people powerful and accountable enough to give credibility to the fact that the change is essential. This team, which we call a guiding coalition, must have the right composition, level of trust, and a shared objective. The guiding coalition is different in every organization, but in the video below I explain what you should consider when building your own, and what kinds of people to look for to make it as powerful as possible.  "

Three Ways to Prepare for a Business Launch

Three Ways to Prepare for a Business Launch: "From showcasing expertise to soliciting feedback and offering free samples, consider these tested strategies for startup success."

5 Ways to Disaster Proof Your Finances

5 Ways to Disaster Proof Your Finances: "I’ve never experienced a tornado but I have experienced the earth shake violently under me during an earthquake in California and I felt, in an eerie way, like I was surfing on land.  Watching the news reports of the devastation of the tornadoes in the Midwest this past week made me appreciate the tremendous uncontrollable force of nature.  The devastation in Missouri was so sudden and overwhelming, it almost seems like it was pointless to prepare.  The emergency flashlight and the gallons of water stored in the basement just seem so minor in the wake of this disaster and it didn’t help the people whose homes were destroyed in an instant.  What we won’t see on the news are the people of the town quietly rebuilding their lives.  Those who have prepared financially will have a much easier time."

7 Ways To Save Time With Google

7 Ways To Save Time With Google: "Google made its name as a search engine. Then, with the advent of Gmail and Gchat, it made a huge splash in the email world with its popular, sleek interface."

Apple & The Halo Effect: Eight Valuable Team Practices

Apple & The Halo Effect: Eight Valuable Team Practices: "The Halo Effect is pervasive in business writing: a firm makes a lot of money in the marketplace and then writers rush to endow the firm with every kind of virtue and competence. The firm can do no wrong, until its profits falter and suddenly the same writers can see no virtue or competence in the very same firm. Cisco might be seen as an example of the phenomenon, and Google may be heading down this path. Phil Rosenzweig’s interesting book, The Halo Effect gives many examples.
Apple isn't perfect
As I have been commending Apple in these pages, am I succumbing to the Halo Effect?"

Five Leadership Lessons With A Gutsy Twist

Five Leadership Lessons With A Gutsy Twist: "By Sylvia Lafair"

Five Steps for Finding an Ideal Mentor

Five Steps for Finding an Ideal Mentor: "Here's how to nab the right mentor and get the most out of the relationship. Plus, five resources to help you start your search."

The First 3 Stages of Starting a Business

The First 3 Stages of Starting a Business: "Starting a business is a big deal—a big, exciting deal that comes with an endless to-do list and a steep learning curve. And as a new entrepreneur, it’s easy to get caught up in the process, overwhelmed by the details, and lose focus of the big picture. You can make a whole business out of setting up your business, but too much detailed planning can seriously get in the way of really getting started!"

Ron Conway's Data On What Makes Successful Entrepreneurs

Ron Conway's Data On What Makes Successful Entrepreneurs: "Ron Conway and David Lee of seed investing firm SV Angel have surveyed about 300 of their current and past portfolio companies and show some interesting data."

Ten Learning Steps from Entrepreneur to Manager

Ten Learning Steps from Entrepreneur to Manager: "Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. They run into difficulty when their business reaches the $1-2 million annual sales range, or their employee count exceeds 5-10. It’s here that entrepreneurs must shift their thinking from tactical and operational, to strategic and managerial."

Employee ownership: Smarter ways to share

Employee ownership: Smarter ways to share: "Employee ownership can deliver great returns — or be more trouble than it’s worth."

How to make Twitter work better for your business

How to make Twitter work better for your business: "Seven deadly tweeting sins you're probably committing."

Surveys: Tips for success

Surveys: Tips for success: "Badly executed surveys will give you reams of useless data. Follow these tips for a successful poll."

The 5 winning strategies of high-growth companies

The 5 winning strategies of high-growth companies: "Get bigger, faster by taking the same simple approaches that deliver superior returns for the PROFIT 200."

The new way to lead

The new way to lead: "In the past 20 years, nothing has changed as much in business as effective leadership. Do you exhibit its seven key traits?"

Great Ideas: 5 keys to better work/life balance

Great Ideas: 5 keys to better work/life balance: "Balancing your work and personal lives can seem like a goal that is highly appealing yet impossible to achieve. And perhaps perfect balance is, in fact, unattainable."

The right behaviours to help execute your strategy

The right behaviours to help execute your strategy: "Seven ways to sustain momentum and support the execution of your strategy."

Great Ideas: Top 3 ways to thrill your customers

Great Ideas: Top 3 ways to thrill your customers: "In today’s competitive business landscape, you’re bound to mediocrity if your customers merely like you."