Go Ask Alice.com
Posted by Jim | August 9, 2009 | No Comments
Long the domain of book and music retailers, online shopping hasn’t really caught on with the toilet paper and laundry detergent crowd. Alice.com, a new site that lets the manufacturers of many popular consumer packaged goods sell directly to customers, hopes to change that. Manufacturers have been feeling the profit-pinch lately, both from recession-weary consumers [...]
Summer Reading List
Posted by Jim | August 3, 2009 | No Comments
Now that August is here, I should really start working on the stack of books that I wanted to read this summer: Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Stewart Friedman, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew [...]
Listen To Your Customers
Posted by Jim | July 31, 2009 | No Comments
One of the most exciting aspects to me of social media is how businesses can use them to connect directly to their customer base. I recently posted a video of small business owners discussing how they use twitter for this very purpose. Traditional means of advertising have always been very one-directional: companies sent out the [...]
Rent Textbooks, Save Money
Posted by Jim | July 20, 2009 | No Comments
Image via Wikipedia Ask any college student, and they will likely agree that one of their biggest expenses each semester is the cost of buying textbooks. Professors notoriously like to teach the most cutting-edge theories, and publishers are more than happy to produce new editions of the same books almost annually. The result? Rising textbook [...]
Use Twitter For Business
Posted by Jim | July 18, 2009 | No Comments
Great panel at TweetCamp San Antonio on July 18, 2009, discussing ways to use twitter from a small business perspective.
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