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Turn a Flaw into a Distinguishing Feature
Just like Southwest Airlines joking about only serving you peanuts on their flights because by cutting out food service they can fly you a lot cheaper. I appreciate that tradeoff. I will buy my own sandwich, thank you very much...
via http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/managementtip.php
- April 12, 2010
Should Entrepreneurs Lie?
You need to articulate your vision for your company, but you need to be careful to clearly define the current reality vs. the hoped-for future...
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- April 12, 2010
Follow-up Is the Momentum Building Power Tool
I completely agree with the importance of follow up. When I was a new salesman in my first sales territory, my customers' biggest complaint was that none of the sales reps that preceeded me every followed up like they had promised in their sales calls. In my two years in that territory, sales soared nearly 4x, mainly because I followed up on my commitments...
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- April 9, 2010
Diapers.com Rocks Online Retailing
This is a good story of a successful web retailer and how they got launched...
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- April 8, 2010
The Levy flight
A good way to explain random, sporadic and seeminly inconsistent customer and browsing behavior...
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- April 8, 2010
Fourth Generation
An update from Franklin Springs on the Family Business film that is currently in production...
via http://www.franklinsprings.com/news/
- April 8, 2010
Entrepreneurship: Is it In the Genes?
30 to 40 percent of the tendency to be an entrepreneur is apparently genetic, while 60 - 70% is how we are raised...
via http://www.entrepreneur.com
- April 7, 2010
Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever
Apple sold $150 million of iPads in their first day. In this article Seth Godin lists what he thinks were the secrets behind this smash success...
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- April 7, 2010
How small businesses can use LinkedIn
I would highly recommend LinkedIn for entrepreneurs and small business owners and this is a good list of ways to use LinkedIn that you may not have thought of...
via http://blog.guykawasaki.com/
- April 7, 2010
Gearing Up
The marketing of the Venture Academy hits the road with Franklin Springs...
via http://www.franklinsprings.com/news/
- April 6, 2010
