Seth's Blog
Business Development is a mysterious title for a little discussed function or department in most larger companies. It's also a great way for an entrepreneur or small business to have fun, create value and make money.Good business development allows businesses to profit by doing something that is tangential to their core mis (Read More)
: "The thing that makes business development fascinating is that the best deals have never been done before. There's no template, no cookie cutter grind it out approach to making it work. This is why most organizations are so astonishingly bad at it. They don't have the confidence to make decisions or believe they have the ability to make mistakes."
Submitted by Gofractal:
How does network marketing relate to getting your website noticed? What do you need to know about network marketing if you want to be successful? Crawled by Google and Presented by Peter Abolins. (Read More)
TechCrunch
There’s quite a big vulnerability with FriendFeed right now. Using the post via email updating function, anyone can post a message as anyone else on FriendFeed. For example, someone posted this pretending to be FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor.Obviously, this is a huge security problem. When it was spotted just about an ho (Read More)
clipotech
As much as people talk about Twitter, we must realize that Twitter is only a tool (or infrastructure as I have argued). It is not a destination that people will focus their attention on for hours of the day. Destinations have been the goal for many startups, but to be a true, complete destination you need to supply a wealth (Read More)
Boing Boing
Ikea's corporate structure is insanely complicated. It is technically owned by a Dutch charitable nonprofit -- a strategy that allows the group to pay 3.5% tax on annual profits of €553m. However, the charity itself appears to do almost no charitable giving. Most of the money disappears into generic line-items like "other o (Read More)
: "Ikea's corporate structure is insanely complicated. It is technically owned by a Dutch charitable nonprofit -- a strategy that allows the group to pay 3.5% tax on annual profits of €553m. However, the charity itself appears to do almost no charitable giving. Most of the money disappears into generic line-items like "other operating charges" which it refuses to explain."
PR 2.0
Credit: Natalie DeeSocial Media continues to fascinate me.If you stop and think about it for a moment, we’re presented with something special…something almost too simple to appreciate.Essentially, we have been given a gift – a looking glass into the thoughts, opinions, feedback, and dialogue that represents a snapshot of m (Read More)
Mark Evans
There seems to be no lack of entrepreneurs willing to take a crack at developing a new search engine – even if it means going to head to head with Google. Whether it’s Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Cuil or Blekko, there is no lack of search start-ups. What’s puzzling about this search landscape is the lack of start-ups focused on bl (Read More)
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Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
Five basic tips for dominating local. If you’re a local business, local musician, local event planner, local anything, you need to try these methods.1. Optimize your site or microsite for local. Buy a local domain name, like Boston Martial Arts. When people are searching for generics, they’ll Google for your locality and th (Read More)
Copyblogger
If you haven’t heard the story yet, a Chicago real estate company called Horizon Realty Group filed a lawsuit against one of its tenants on Monday. She apparently made a snarky remark on Twitter, claiming that the company “didn’t care” about mold in her apartment. Horizon is suing her for libel, looking for $50,000 in damag (Read More)
mashable
Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com.In the current economy, job security has become somewhat of an oxymoron. Which is one reason why maintaining connections with your old university classmates, especially when yo (Read More)
readwriteweb
In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any big Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It took a good couple of years until I spotted them at the Web 2.0 conference, for example. And that's fair enough, due to the size of the company and the (Read More)
Advertising Age - Homepage
Who is Claude VonStroke? Is Dan Deacon familiar? Perhaps you have heard of Amanda Palmer? Or Erol Alkan? If you are a serious fan of independent music, it's likely one or more of these names rings a bell. What might be surprising that they can teach both scrappy startup brands and major consumer-package-goods players how to (Read More)
KyleLacy.com
If you are running a social media company or thinking about implementing some type of social media strategy into your business… there is no better company to track than Razorfish. They recently released a report called Fluent which examines the possibilites of using social media influencers (like Chris Brogan and Douglas K (Read More)
MichaelFruchter.com
——–It’s no surprise that in this digital age corporations are actively engaging their customer base through social media. I can list hundreds of companies who successfully quote on quote “get it“. I thought I would focus on one, Dairy Queen.—Dairy Queen, for those of you who are not familiar with the brand, is an ice cream (Read More)
TechCrunch
What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. You can find the report embedded below or on ENGAGEMENTdb, which was presumably created with Wetpaint’s site-creation software.The study scores the (Read More)