To grow your brand: 1) know what people find meaningful, 2) connect with them thoughtfully, 3) create joy they can’t live without, & 4) believe in your people. from Fast-coDesign.com 12/14 enhanced by Peter/CXO, Wiz4biz Our Economic Times. Every day, we see signs that doing business today is more complex …
from Forbes Zine 09 Dec 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Author: Mona Patel is Founder and CEO at Motivated Design, a user experience & design thinking agency, Perspective. It’s impossible to avoid hearing the phrase “90% fail” when you run a startup. Early on, I realized it was better to …
suggested by Inc Zine 12/14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Here are the Key Take-aways: 1) Small Biz Marketing tools don’t get or keep customers, biz “attitudes” do. 2) All business is based on “relationships”, yet in the industrial economy, we focused on “transactions” of selling products/services 3) In the new …
from USA Today 11 Dec 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz His Vision. A company founder focused on helping Americans nurture the growth & evolution of their biggest asset – their homes – has been named USA TODAY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Matt Ehrlichman, 35, CEO of Seattle-based Porch.com, won the …
from Entrepreneur.com 08 Dec 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Many people become entrepreneurs because they want to take charge of their financial future and enjoy the freedom entrepreneurship can provide. While the allure of entrepreneurship is strong, there are some realities you should be aware of before you decide to …
The 13 lucky Rules for getting & keeping Customers & Clients from CEO Confidente’ 2020 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Author Bio & Credits: Jeffrey J. Fox is the best-selling author of How to Become a CEO and founder of Fox & Co. – a premier marketing consulting firm in Avon …
from Dr.Mommy.com 23 May 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Need for Speed? Have you ever felt like a hamster running full speed on a wheel, getting nowhere fast? Agitation & frustration are the two common warning signs that you might be on the verge of overload. It’s easy to get …
Strategy in the age of Devastating Innovation a Book Review by MindXchange 2014 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Our new Age of Innovation is one that presents opportunities for new businesses, along with significant challenges for established enterprises. As authors, Larry Downes and Paul Nunes describe in their book, Big Bang …
from Linked IN 01 Dec 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 80% of StartUps fail in first 18 months, according to the Forbes/ Bloomberg/ Business Insider. This is specially applicable to the Technology StartUps. Everything starts with a great idea ! Full of enthusiasm, months are spent to develop & translate …
from INC magazine 21 Nov 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Big Waste. Top executives spend 20% dealing with un-productive meetings. This loss trickles down throughout the organization. Lost time isn’t just spent in the meetings themselves. The process of preparing for, having the meeting, then summarizing the results cuts into …
Forbes Magazine 31 Oct 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Why Funding Startups is important. Entrepreneurs are full of great ideas and powerful ways to implement them, but like anything in life, starting a new Business requires a hefty stack of cold, hard cash. At one time, gathering this cash required …
@ Startup Grind, Austin 11/14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz CEO of PhunWare [FunWare] founder Alan Knitowski calls it like he sees it, letting fly his controversial perspectives that: 1) the Texans of Austin boot-strap too much, & 2) entrepreneurs interested in work/life balance need to “grow up”. Alan, the investor, …
All about the Way – WePay vs ApplePay & PayPal from SJ Mercury News 15 Nov 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz WePay Co-Founder Bill Clerico came up with the idea for online payment processor WePay when he was a 21-year-old graduate from Boston College. The concept looked so promising that …
from SCORE 10 Nov 17 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Rise or Fall? If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve most likely heard the saying “It takes money to make money.” And, if you continue to be an entrepreneur, you’ll hear it again & again. Why? Because there is some truth to it. …
from Hinge Marketing Services Blog 15 Nov 13 enhance by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 11/14 Measuring Social Media success. Now we know what we want to measure. Let’s determine how we will measure this social media success. Putting new followers, more shares & comments on posts aside, we can determine the tools …
Business Insider.com 17 Sept 12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Who is Richard Branson? Well, he started his first business – a Student Newspaper – at 16, and at 20 Virgin Records, and he hasn’t looked back since. He’s the only entrepreneur to have successful companies in 8 different industries — …
Are you a Pro Crastinator or an Amateur one? If you Snooze, you Lose !!! Innnovation Weekly 24 Oct 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Friends or Foes? Actually Pro-Crastination has been an enemy to innovation for many years, and getting over it can take some doing on your part. Although …
from Summary.com 10/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 10/14 The Six Influence Points. The six influence points of the Mobile Shopping Life Cycle are identified by Martin as follows: 1. The Set Up (Pre-buy). In this phase, the mobile shopper is doing research. This phase is similar to the traditional search …
from Linked In 31 July 12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 10/14 9-5 Jobs. Running a small business is by no means an easy feat. I always say that people with white-collar desk jobs in large corporations got it easy. Everything has been laid out for you; there are company manuals, …
from Entrepreneur Magazine 14 Nov 11 enhance by Peter.CXO Wiz4biz 10/14 Why? Great business mentors can have an enormous impact on early-stage startups. Their connections can open doors that would otherwise be closed and their experiences can save entrepreneurs from suffering from the same startup mistakes they’ve already made. How? …
Innovation Weekly 19 Oct 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Art & Science ??? Let’s talk about delivering break-through innovation by re-applying ideas from unexpected places, and how ‘innovation magic’ occurs at these interfaces. Today I want to focus on a personal passion, innovating at the interface between Art & Science. …