Coming this fall is the second annual GrowSmartBiz Conference being held on November 5, 2010 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC.... Read More
The smartphone is rapidly accelerating the convergence of computing and telephony and taking the phone as a converged music player, gaming device, camera, GPS navigator, web browser and wallet to another level. Read More
Over the past few days, I’ve been participating in a loss review with one of my clients. It was a painful loss, it was a major opportunity, with a prestigious customer. The winner would lock up the business for the foreseeable future. My client had been pursuing this opportunity for over a year. The sale was for a relatively complex piece of capital equipment. The support teams had done many demonstrations and tests, they had made modifications to the base software to support customer requirements. Through the entire process, they were neck to neck with the competition. In the end, they were even slightly lower priced. Read More
How important is social media---Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.---to your small business? Well, not necessarily as important as some of your core activities like providing services and products as this amusing video reminds u Read More
Conversion rate optimization will establish credibility with new users. In the end, you will be handsomely rewarded for helping them find the products and services that they need Read More
Blogging is being promoted as one of the cheapest ways to promote a company or a product, at least in terms of money. Even if a company brings in an outside blog, the cost per post is drastically below the cost of a television spot. Read More
In our creative endeavors, it’s hard to believe that we absolutely need a schedule or some sort of system to do our best work. After all, Pablo Picasso got to work on his own schedule and he did just fine Read More
An Article that presents common problems in intellectual property of written articles in the web. This also presents recommendations on how to address these common problems Read More
Great ideas are not sufficient, it has to go through the whole organization, people has to buy into the idea and make their own.

"A successful product or service has to navigate a complex terrain of hurdles, constraints, technologies, and opportunities. There are myriad market forces, fundamental needs, competitive strategies, core competencies, and market adoption forces. And the product must deliver its promises, not only functioning well, but also providing pleasure in the interaction." Read More
Last week I wrote about how to know if your business will be successful or not (5 Sure-fire Ways To Know If Your Business Will Work Or Not). In one of the comments, Timothy mentioned the importance of bootstrapping a company so I wanted to dedicate this post to how to bootstrap - thanks for the suggestion Timothy! 20 Ways To Bootstrap Your Bu. Read More
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