Chris Brogan writes about How Communication Skills Power Your Performance and gives great tips around emails. It goes from having concise subject lines and easy to understand context to making emails easy to read (short paragraphs, lists etc). The post ends with this tip:
One last thing: a call to action is rarely useful at the [...]
I am working on a post about vision, mission and strategy. In my research I found this gem about strategy – ‘Same strategy as last year…’
Source: mammoth-strategy
I saw this on Twitter yesterday, a condensed lesson in business.
People are not buying what you are selling.
They are buying the result of what you are selling.
I came across this text in Motivating Yourself – Heroes, Role Models & Rivals which links to the source at Embrace Constraints (37signals)
Let limitations guide you to creative solutions
There’s never enough to go around. Not enough time. Not enough money. Not enough people.
That’s a good thing.
Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let [...]
Fortune has a very interesting article about What it takes to be great. The article is from October 30, 2006 but it popped up on Twitter today. The post title says “Secrets of greatness: Practice and hard work bring success” which sums it up nicely.
The good news is that your lack of a natural gift [...]
Over at Micro Persuasion is an interesting guest post, Leo Babauta on the Tao of Marketing. Leao writes about his own marketing experiences connected to his site Zen Habits and his book The Power of Less. He writes about th eold way of marketing before getting into the new way.
Marketers must adopt an entirely new [...]
The image below comes from Wikipedia’s article about SWOT analysis. The article starts like this:
SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture.
I have used SWOT for business purposes but it turns out that SWOT can be used on [...]
Jason at JibberJobber posted about The Visualization – Where Will You Be? and Career Management Visualization – an example.
I hate your job has an interesting post about Personal Mission Statements: Way Cool where it says something well worth to remember and consider:
Do you realize that the average person spends more time planning a vacation than [...]
There is an interesting e-book over at ChangeThis, I Am The Walrus: Lessons In Personal Branding from The Beatles. The e-book is built around a Beatles record, giving lessons in personal branding along the way.
The authors post about the e-book at their blog, ChangeThis Manifesto “I Am The Walrus” Released!.
The possibility of finding and spreading [...]
At YesToMe is an interview with James Chartrand and Harrison McLeod, the men behind Men with Pens. It is a really interesting interview about how they got started and how they work together from a distance of 3,000 miles. Do spend time reading the comments and asnwers too. I love this part:
Never leap without a [...]
