August 2011 Archive

Thom Singer
Here Is A Way That Has Never Failed To Bring Opportunities
If you want to find more opportunities in your career or personal life, be a one who gives.  Go out of your way to help others achieve their goals, connect ...
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The same three F’s on your management team
The relationship between an entrepreneur and their idea is not unlike that of a parent and their newborn child. It’s sometimes hard for them to understand that not everyone shares ...
How Healthy Employees Impact Your Company
It’s easy to catch onto the fitness culture in the city of Austin; the abundance and variety of fitness classes, fitness events and general fitness opportunities are everywhere. But, that’s ...
Take the Advice and Run with It
  Charlie Sheen may no longer be the role model for good advice per the movie poster above, but... I find myself in many settings these days where I’m asked to advise ...
Financing Not Fundraising: Moving From Push to Pull
In part 10 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, we are discussing moving nonprofits away from “push” fundraising and marketing efforts that force their message on innocent bystanders ...
Bryan-Menell
Let the Panel Picking Begin! (Round 1)
Every year thousands of panels are submitted to the SXSW Interactive conference. Either lots of people have some really interesting things to say, or they are hoping to ...
Wendy Covey
The TREW Approach- Goals and Smart Planning
There is a great saying many marketers use – “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” Without a plan, how do you know what ...
Thom Singer
How An Ice-Breaker Can Kill Your Business Meeting
Many business meetings kick off with an ice breaker.... but nobody signs up to attend a conference to play silly games, pull off squares of toilet paper, and share their ...
Matt Scherer
Employee benefits can impact a firm’s valuation
When it comes to evaluating a business’ resale capacity, one of the most overlooked yet important aspects is to consider its health benefit policies. As part of the valuation ...
Jamie-Brown
Promotional Items – 4 Questions to Ask Before You Buy
I’ve got a junk drawer full of pens, notepads and portfolios with names of bankers, accountants, printers and others. I can remember collecting some of the logo laden swag from networking ...

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Nell Edgington - Social Velocity A Career Guide For a New Generation of Change Makers
Billy Parish and Dev Aujla’s new book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and Community ...
mj-jolda Bagels by the Batch
What’s with all the hype about “Artisan Bagels” by Dunkin' Donuts?  Does anyone even ...
Hall_Martin-150x150 Understanding the deal from the Investor’s perspective
The entrepreneur and the investor both look at the same deal but they come ...
marc nathan Entrepreneur Events: OpenCoffee
Today’s OpenCoffee brought new and familiar faces to CoffeeGroundz.  For the uninitiated, OpenCoffee is ...
Ben Dyer new 1-23-12 It’s Facebook Week…
A few weeks back I wrote a post asking where are the Facebook startup ...
Bryan-Menell Mass Relevance Secures $3.3 Million Series A
Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced that it ...
Thom-Singer-150x150 Networking Shortcuts for Career Success
There are no shortcuts to career success.  It takes time to building long-term and ...
Nell Edgington - Social Velocity Reader Question: How to Find Major Donors
Last month I launched a new regular series on the blog called Reader Questions. ...
Jamie-Brown The Formula for Making Client Relationships Bloom video
  I work with the best clients. That may sound like "spin" coming from a public ...
Thom Singer Does LinkedIn Matter? video
I was recently the speaker at a business event.  After my talk (about the ...