Online Ads to be a $50B Market by 2011
Lifesavers' Negative Becomes a Positive
CSR job postings have increased approximately 37% per year over the past 3.5 years
Writers strike turning into incubator for Web start-ups
AmEx OPEN online advertising discounts
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship Quiz
Ask 37signals: 10 ways to "get ink": from folks who get quite a lot
Nothing But Green Skies: for Enterprise rent-a-car
Serial entrepreneurs and today's Silicon Valley: I'm not in the valley, but I think I'm in there somewhere
SendOutCards: Automatically send cards — thank you, follow-up, etc.
Productivity Tips from a Starbucks Barrista
IdeaCV: Post your business ideas (steal others')
Sales and Marketing Process Map
Main Street's take: Trouble ahead
#1 University of Southern California: #1 MBA Entrepreneur program, that is!
Glenn Kelman's Financial Model: Great example of how to put simple financials together in Excel
25 Tools to Compile an In-Depth Dossier on a Competitors' Site
"I can't afford it": "That's not true."
How companies are marketing online: A McKinsey Global Survey: Especially note the "collaborating with customers" part.
Sales call leads to kidney donation
Workouts are child's play at this gym
The Powerbook! The Powerbook! The Powerbook's on Fire! : Apple's good customer service solves a critical problem.
Getting a startup right the second time (Via bBlog)
That's What She Said!: HR pro looks at The Office, tots up legal violations and likely recovery for each episode
YouMail : Customizable voicemail for your cell phone
YouTube Debuts Nonprofit Program: Raise awareness and, now, money too
30 under 30: The coolest leaders of a new business generation: Chairs?!
Win Fast. Never, Ever Lose Slowly.: True in everything, but especially in sales here.
Bill could open door for venture capital firms: VC-backed small firms will still count as small firms -- makes sense to me!
A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words: LinkedIn takes photos!
5 Tips to Turn Your Website into a Marketing Machine
From Scratch : "is a weekly radio show about the entrepreneurial life."
Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions
Jottit: Seriously simple Web site creation.
5 Tips on How to Leverage Social Media for Your Startup
ICS PBFA Call Guides: Sales Maps.
Selling Power: Videos on how to sell better. Disclaimer: I hate videos online.
Are you working hard or are you working long?
Five Rules for Great Referrals
How Not to Die: Die, that is, in the business sense
Potential acquirers back away in light of U.S. rule on contractors: And here come the unintended consequences...
Place Your Product on the American Express Holiday Wishlist: No perishable products, unfortunately
LicketyShip : Find the right courier
The Dark Side of Startups: 5 Corrosive Co-Founder Conflicts: I've experienced 1, 2, and 3, and should have created 4 with a past co-founder.
Entrepreneurs Sound Off on Start-Ups
Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
The opposite: "Does your team agree on who your opposite is?"
"Keep it Simple, Stupid" Applies to Your Landing Pages, Too!
Prison Entrepreneurship Program: Mentor an inmate to create opportunity
Stalking a killer in our greens: Making spinach safe
Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell (Via bBlog)
Collecting Snippets of Good Design (Via xBlog)
Stay True to Your Strategic Core
Fed Gives Weak Nod to Growth and Credit Risks: Fed sez: "The 'cure' for a period of excess credit is credit restraint" (Via Infectious Greed)
Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret
Understanding Key Performance Indicators: Of Web site performance
10 portfolios that get right to the point: All Web sites should be like these, in their own way
Head, shoulder, foot!: <-- Needs foot
Five Books You Have To Read If You Want To Be A Master Copywriter: On the black art of direct response copywriting
Make your presentations stickier: these 3 books can help: Skip the books, read the tips
Website Grader: Solid SEO tool.
How to Develop a Hit Facebook App: 29 Essential Tools and Tutorials (Via How to Change the World)
Information Gathering Made Easy: Involve your prospect in your fishing for more joint efficiency
Give 'em Something to Talk About: Is it better to stand out in one place than to be better than average in several?
There's no such thing as the one-hour meeting
How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry: "It's not about whether venture capitalists read plans, it's about planning to make your business better."
One Line of Code: "Want to make your site look better on the iPhone with one line of HTML?"
A Wii little story: When marketing and segmentation go right
Avoid Treading Water: Start Pulling Ahead: How to focus on the right sales prospects
A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es (Via Daring Fireball)
Google Apps for Administrators: Full-featured domain name registration + all the Google apps for your domain
Biznik: Social networking for the self-employed (Via bBlog)
Corporate Blogging 101: 10 Easy Steps to Get a Corporate Blog Up & Running
Cofoundr: Social networking for entrepreneurs (Via Curious Office)
Tip: Surround Yourself With Progress: I'm inclined to try this
Steve Jobs' Greatest Presentation
Stock Administration Manager Job Opening at Facebook: Say hello to my little IPO!
The Unintentional Moonshot - or how a high valuation can "lock your exits"
Small before big: I seem to link to Seth Godin almost every week. Either I'm a tool or cutting-edge.
The answer will shrink your ulcer: Très GTD
10 Pragmatic Steps To Raising Venture Capital (Via Ask the VC)
SBA takes aim at big firms on contractor list
Project Enterprise Contest: Should I enter? Should you?
You Know What Your Company Does. Can You Explain It in 30 Seconds?
'iBoard of Directors' Solves Your Business Challenges
How Seagate learned to package like Apple. (Via Blackfriars' Marketing)
Vacations can be good for business: Even for small companies!
Champagne Moments: This is exactly how I am.
Why CEOs and Companies Break the Law
Overjustification Effect and Web 2.0: Social Psych + Business = Intrigued Wade!
Who's Online? It May Surprise You : the rich, not the young!
How To Make Over $10 Million, Selling Whiteboards To Hospitals
Let the consumer revolution begin: "Apple garnered $217 million in ad savings over 11 days by being a smart marketer."
Most and least: "Least spreads."
Branding: It Might Not Win You Sales But It Sure Can Lose Them
Bounce Rate: Sexiest Web Metric Ever?
The Enemy: Dealing with the boss when things have gone all upside-down.
Franchises That Are the Web Worker's Best Friend
Use a silent ringtone for low priority contacts
The Margin Manifesto: words to manage by
Sketching with a Sharpie: "ignore details early on"
E-mail is not a platform for design
Venture Hacks Office Hours: Real questions from real people
The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority
Can blogging really help businesses?
What's your cookbook?: Proving value by giving something away for free, like famous TV chefs do.
Moments Of Truth: What interactions does your customer see as having the most emotional impact? Excel at those.
Outcomes vs. Activity: Don't be sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Customer Service - Foundation over Platitudes
Tip: Present Yourself!: As a former business partner never understood, it's all sales.
Why You Should Get In Touch With Your "Inner Lazy Ass": See also my Lazy Productivity series.
Various parts of life, represented visually
It's all in the numbers: "Financial planning is the unsung hero of startups." An essay after my own heart!
How to Design for Word-of-Mouth
Knowing when and how to use premium pricing
Net radio faces swan song if fees increase: A pet topic.
Too late?: When is it too late to reinvent your company? Never!
Seven tips on how to run a successful community.
Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials (Via xBlog)
10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich (Via bBlog)
Jane Siberry's "you decide what feels right" pricing: Crazy socialism or the market at work or the business plan my friend pitched to VCs back in '00?
An Interview With Marty Neumeier: Good branding thoughts. (Via Presentation Zen)
Why AQNT is worth 2 Times DCLK: I don't buy it; I don't think any of AQNT's other assets are actually worth anything to Microsoft
Marketing spending: the canary for the US economy: Uh-oh.
The Real Story of JPG Magazine: All too familiar.
Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site?
Orbitz, the worst IPO of 2007?: Sounds like an awful investment opportunity
Ripping up the rules of management
Writing the Killer Idea Pitch: On good writing, in general
Cingular's smartphone sales dip ahead of iPhone (Via Blackfriars' Marketing)
Doane Paper: Can what we write on change how we think?
How (NOT) important is an idea for starting a new business: An example of effectual thinking?
Playing a Vital Role in the Southern California Economy: USC is LA's largest private employer
Exploring business's social contract: An interview with Daniel Yankelovich: Society expects more.
Who says we need our logo on every slide?: Looking back at my presentation, I thought "boy is this true!"
The Business of Good: NYU Stern's Conference of Social Entrepreneurs
Five Key Characteristics of Web Brands
Entrepreneurial Proverbs (Via Startupping)
Be Chaotic Neutral: Looking back on Google+YouTube
4 Essential Commitments to Move Your Sale Forward
The Restaurant-Failure Myth: Risk of restaurant failure is no higher than any other kind of failure.
Surprises in the self-checkout lane: Learn about your customers by giving them control? (Via The Old New Thing)
Charter schools: 'More bang for the buck': Education is the business of the next 50 years, if you ask me.
Price promotions in Latin American retailing: Fascinating how different groups use different products as their quick tool to determine how expensive a store is.
The Race To Build Really Cheap Cars : Looks like the big boys have to be disruptive too!
Simplicity: The Ultimate Sophistication (Via Signal vs. Noise)
Targeting the People Who Matter: Give up control
What Really Happened At JetBlue (Via IAG Blog)
Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This Week: Essentially the system I use
powerpoint bad for brains (Via bBlog)
Boss Science (Via bBlog)
How to Get the Attention of a Venture Capitalist
Menu Foods' Apology Goes to the Dogs: A totally mismanaged crisis.
Regulation that's good for competition
Why CEOs love Rwanda: of all places!
Card issuers, retailers at odds: Over fees, of course
An L.A. tax that's really gross: Let's tax the bottom line, not the top!
Why not to not start a startup
Tightened rules aim to protect small-business federal contracts: The SBA is getting fixed
Rockmount's chief turns 106: the nation's oldest CEO
Powerpoint Paralysis: Awful product name; awful product PowerPoint
Assembly Required: How To Do It Right
How to make an eBook in just a few steps
The worst Billion dollar Internet acquisitions
How to Gather Competitive Research
Too Much Hype Backfires (Via How to Change the World)
Networking for People Who Hate Networking: Blogs, it turns out, are networking!
"Business Intelligence isn't a technical problem, it's a social problem": Or, stop hiding information!
Tip: Setting Up Action Areas: A place for to-dos (Via LifeClever)
The Benefits Offered by Google and Others May Be Grand, but They're All Business: Perks and their audiences
Blogs and post-Cluetrain reality (Via Seth Godin)
Purple Cow Redux: Guerrilla marketing 101
Band names are a lot like brand names (Via NameWire)
Being Lucky: A how-to
19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website: #10 is my biggest pet peeve! (Via bBlog)
The Green Options Interview: Ed Begley, Jr.: Great personal service story in the first quarter. (Via bBlog)
The Barefoot Impresario: Portrait of a lifestyle business.
Home meal prep chain, magazine cook up partnership: Good deal for Cooking Light... new channel for marketing?
Does Cold Calling Work?: Maybe. (It did for them.)
How Threadless Creates 'Online Awesomeness'
The Effort Effect: <-- currently relieved that failure leads to good things! (Via How to Change the World)
Tim Cook Speaks on Apple, iPhone, Apple TV: Cook's statement on iPhone pricing is brilliant. (Via Signal vs. Noise)
The Path to Growth: There are two kinds of articles: those that divide all companies into three buckets, and those that don't. (Via bBlog)
The Page Paradigm: How users use Web pages
Apple: America's best retailer (Via Signal vs. Noise)
How to start meetings on time (the honest version): My personal favorite meeting-ending strategy: turn off the conference bridge, like Intel does (Via bBlog)
N.O. is cookin' up a little social entrepreneurship
Aura of Inevitability (or: When a Technology's Time has Come) (Via Daring Fireball)
A startup's best friend? Failure: Fail fast, fail often, fail cheap, succeed.
LogoPond: Others' brilliant logos make you think about yours
Top-Down Productivity: How the rich and powerful use GTD
How to Get Your Customers to Solve Problems for You
Rebranding at the DNA Level: How to make a brand that works hard for you
MyBlogLog - Shoestring Web 2.0 Success Story (Via Startup Review)
Seeing parallels in Disney, P&G: How two of the most successful companies do things similarly.
Iwata Asks: How they made the Wii
Rolls works hard on its soft sell: How to sell tons if you only have 85,000 potential customers worldwide
Grade-schoolers profit from learning business
SBA chief working to reform agency
Seven steps to remarkable customer service: apologizing doesn't hurt
Entrepreneurship Week USA (Via How to Change the World)
Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides: Using science! (Via Beyond Bullets)
On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry: <-- Hungry (Via evhead)
The new corporate logo: Dynamic and changeable are all the rage: Like Google's ever-redrawn logotype (Via bBlog)
Do-Gooders With Spreadsheets: If the WEF Forum in Davos is about what's next, then social entrepreneurship is what's next.
The First 5 Slides: Free Webcast from the author of Beyond Bullet Points
Home Depot Gets a Fresh Coat of Less-Glossy Paint: Up with humility! (Via Work Matters)
Post to your Movable Type blog right from Microsoft Word: Because a little form window turns out to be a crappy writing environment.
GotVoice: Listen to your voicemail on your computer
Did China spell doom for Dell?: It's dangerous for any entrepreneur to build their company on "being the cheapest." (Via Daring Fireball)
YouTube's making millionaires in the lower ranks: Meet the millionaire receptionist!
More prepared meals, private label in store at Kowalski's: "We're really focusing on meal replacement," and "foodaceuticals," says midwestern retailer.
User-Generated Content Done Right
Top 10 'Green' Companies of 2006
Technology Evangelists: A Leadership Survey: Not just tech, everyone needs evangelists. (Warning - PDF) (Via How to Change the World)
'Social entrepreneurship was an oxymoron, today it is different': Doing it for 26 years in India
Breakthrough Ideas for 2007: Predictions from the HBR (Via bBlog)
Leading change: An interview with the managing director of Tata Motors: How do you keep making a profit when your market contracts by 40%?
Going Berry, Berry Strong: Ocean Spray: marketing juggernaut
The 10 Riskiest Businesses To Start: (Don't let it scare you off, though — I'm not letting it scare me!)
'Presenteeism' infects businesses: Going in to work sick costs US business $180B/year!
Failure as a test of leadership: From the book Firing Back
The 2007 Flavor Forecast: According to spice company McCormick
101 Dumbest Moments in Business
Excel Training Worksheet: From the spectacular Juice Analytics
Baptists and Boundaries: About marketing, actually.
5 Ways to Build Trust: In the marketplace, that is.
LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover
5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm is Better than Confidence: Confidence is self-focused, enthusiasm is customer-focused (Via bBlog: The sales, marketing and business weblog )
Pantone Selects Chili Pepper as the Color of the Year for 2007
Smithsonian Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs: Describes the iPod Strategy... in 1995. (Via Kottke)
Marketing Made Sticky: Interview with the Made to Stick book authors.
Sweet Revenge : You bet revenge drives business decisions!
Who should--and shouldn't--run the family business: Family is ok, but don't crown 'em before they earn it (Via Changing Higher Education)
The exclusive club of leadership: Old: Family. New: B-School
$210 million to step aside: Good time to be a (fired) CEO!
Fear, shark attacks, and "Will it scale?": Your Web app, that is.
The Entrepreneur's New Year's Resolution: "I Will Fix My Pitch"
Google Extends Newspaper Program: Expectations exceeded! (Via Marketing Profs)
Switched On: In search of elegance: "Every time a company adds a feature to a product, it adds the opportunity to do it wrong." (Via Signal vs. Noise)
Small Businesses Fight Fickle Rules: Big business's new skill: gaming the rules designed to help small business
SEC moves to make rules 'easy to apply' for firms: SarbOx compliance indexed to company size? Good!
Nestle to buy Novartis nutrition unit
FTC Moves to Unmask Word-of-Mouth Marketing: Good, but potentially complicated.
Swivel: Massive amounts of visualizable data (Via xBlog)
Firm puts profit to good work: LA design company Unique Image gives as much money as possible to charity.
ICC's New Advertising & Marketing Practices Code: Ethical practices for a new digital age.
Userplane Case Study: Vertical market entry strategy pays off: Userplane makes that flash-based IM you see everywhere.
The message in advertising is irrelevant, new research shows: This study shows emotion, not content, is king. (Via Strategic Name Development Blog)
Dreamhost: Free Hosting for 501(c)(3)s: Dreamhost hosts this site. (Via Web405)
For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap: Web start-ups are now doing it for just a few thousand dollars, rather than millions. This is how and why. (Via Daring Fireball)
More Micro, Less Soft: Corporate weight loss comes to Seattle!