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Each business has 7 ages: enthusiasm, naivety, attention, maturity, expansion, leadership and exhaustion. Read More

The Socialnomics-Social Media Blog has compiled a comprehensive list of stats from all kinds of sources to prove that "Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think." Watch the video after the jump. Read More

In this video, part of a series called "Who Pops Your Popcorn", business consultant Rod Alan Richardson of www.rodalan.com gives a wonderful overview of marketing for small business. In the interview, Rod insists that marketing is particularly important in small business where, he says, there is no room to delegate the responsibility to someone Read More

Buffet is indeed one of the greatest investors to ever walk the face of the earth, and his strategies and ideas carry tremendous weight.   He influences the influencers and very often his beliefs are taken out of context and therefore misunderstood and lead to stock bubbles.  Read More

A diagram based on your goal and discipline levels. These levels combined are creating your productivity patterns. Read More

“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.” By Benjamin Franklin. How often do you reply to the question, “How is business” with “I am sooo busy”. If you gently probe a little more, busy being busy does not actually mean more customers or more business from customers. It may just mean you are letting your business drive you and you are not in cont Read More

It is easy to see the obvious differences in different cultures, but we sometimes forget to look for the differences in rules and regulations in different countries. When we dig a bit deeper and try to understand the reason behind these different rules, we may stumble across the key to a deeper knowledge of this different culture. Read More

Building strong cross-cultural skills starts with learning to listen to all aspects of the communication. This is why you need to put aside your busy habits. Busy habits keep you from picking up the whole communication. The easiest way to improve your cross-cultural communication is simply to slow down and focus on the conversation. Read More

In social media, the vehicles are pretty apparent to everyone. We have Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, blogs, etc. How hard can it be? They are all free and are all tempting you to use them to reach out to customers. If you are responsible for the marketing of your organization, the subject has been broached by now, “What Read More

A new study suggests that people from different cultures read facial expressions differently. East Asian participants in the study focused mostly on the eyes, but those from the West scanned the whole face. In the research carried out by a team from Glasgow University, East Asian observers found it more difficult to distinguish some facial Read More