I’m reading a fabulous new book that I received as a Christmas gift called The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood. Sherwood sets out to find common denominators in people who have survived incredible odds…from mountain lion attacks to plane crashes to a knitting needle through the heart.
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Create Your Own Community with Ning
Back to my friend Pete and the cool online tools he’s introduced. Another online and free tool that’s really fun to experiment with and very powerful for small business is Ning. Think of Ning as a customizable Facebook. A “create your own” online community, if you will.
Start Small and Focused
One of the lessons I’ve learned the hard way…several times…has to do with taking focused baby steps. When just starting out with a new business or project, we’re tempted to “do it all”, because we finally have the freedom to do so. We have so many good ideas and we want to compete in the marketplace. So we start multiple product lines or multiple projects simultaneously, hoping to appear bigger, better, faster, more interesting than the next guy.
Helping You Get “To Do” Done Better: Free Applications Every Small Business Must Have!
I owe half of the applications I use on a daily basis to my friend, Pete. He shakes his head every time he gets his hands on my computer and iPhone (both set up by him, thank you very much, Peter!). Inevitably I haven’t upgraded something I needed to or my desktop is too “messy”.
In Search of True Perfection
I received a Christmas card in the mail today from a high school friend. It was literally pages long, beautifully designed and captured the entire past year in narrative and photos. It was, by all accounts, the story of the quintessential family, with testimonials as to how perfect each of their 3 children are in their respective extracurricular activities, how rewarding each of the couples’ jobs were, how adventuresome each of their trips were and on and on and on. And it annoyed the hell out of me.
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