Not long ago I was advising a boss on a product roll out. His team had never done anything quite as large. I suggested a ‘FireDrill.’
FireDrill consists of 3 parts:
1) The Plan (planning)
2) The Drill (practice)
3) The Fire (execution)
The Plan is a checklist, The Fire is the…
Join me on a Virtual Book Tour of the book, In Women We Trust: A Cultural Shift to the Softer Side of Business.
A virtual book tour is like a regular book tour with one big difference: instead of the author traveling from city to city, she travels from blog to blog to talk about her book.
In Women…
The press release has changed. No longer is it designed for the press. Rather, today it is used first and foremost for online search.
An article at B2B Marketing Trends outlines how the press release has gone full circle, from once valuable, to dead, and now back to being reincarnated with a…
China has the fourth-largest economy in the world, at $2.26 trillion. That is approximately one-seventh the size of the U.S. economy.
But do you know its biggest economic distinction? It is the fastest growing economy in the world.
And with its 1.3 Billion people, which is more than four times…
Blogs are better than classifed ads
Much good advice has been offered on blogging and career management.
Whenever Charmaine or Your Business Blogger have to hire someone, the first question we ask ourselves is,
Who do we know?
So we then tap into our network of contacts and friends and get the…
I will be at the Search Engine Strategies Local Search conference in Denver, Colorado on September 28, 2006 to learn all about the latest in local search trends.
Local search is an important issue for small businesses. I know that many of you draw the majority of your customers from within a…
Janine Popick at the Vertical Response blog suggests using a back-to-school slant for some last-minute promotions for your business.
Does your product or service have a back-to-school slant? Remember, back-to-school isn’t only for the kiddies and teeny-boppers, it’s also for college…
Small Business Trends Radio was recently noticed in an article by Doug Stanley about business podcasts in TBO.com, the online home of the Tampa Tribune:
Whether on a corporate cube farm, at a midsize company or in their own small business, most people spend a big chunk of their lives…
The August 18, 2006 edition of the Small Business Trends Newsletter is now available online.
Many of you subscribe to my email newsletter because you like to receive a monthly digest of the most popular posts from this site. The newsletter also includes other small business content from around…
Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog now has a podcast channel. The Biz Ops Podcast features interviews with entrepreneurs and small business owners.
One of the best parts: it is hosted by one of my favorite people, Tim Grahl. Tim, it just so happens, also serves as my Webmaster…
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