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 3 Strategies Small Businesses Can Use to Gain an Advantage in Bad Times
from Bigg Success
July 24, 2008
A recent study by Intuit, the software giant behind QuickBooks, Quicken, and TurboTax, found that three-fourths of small business owners expect to grow this year, in spite of all the talk about a recession, corporate layoffs, and consumers cutting back. Now, it s probably safe to say that small business owners are a relatively optimistic group. Part of their optimism, though, comes from that fact that two-thirds of the people surveyed said they had survived a recession before. They ve done it by putting their customers first and focusing on their finances. . When I first started studying entrepreneurship, my perception was that large companies created the jobs. Our colleges train us to work in bigg business. It s true that large companies tend to hire a lot of people during boom times, as do small companies. But during tough economic times, large companies cut back. Interestingly, small companies tend to pretty much hold their own. . If you re keeping an eye on the news, you see that a lot of large companies are cutting marketing and even customer service. They re cutting jobs and even entire departments. They re streamlining. . As numerous studies have shown, the net effect of this is that, over the course of the business cycle, almost all new jobs come from small businesses. Opportunities created by large businesses for small businesses in bad times As large companies make cuts, astute small businesses can gain an advantage by using any or all of the following three strategies: #1 Turn bigg companies into your customers. They re reviewing their operations. If what they cut is what you do it s your service market to them! They may still need that service in some capacity take advantage of it! #2 Recruit their talent A lot of the people they re laying off are very talented. These are people that you may have never been able to get before. Recruit that talent. Provide them with a nice place to fall. They may look for something more stable or some place where they feel more of a sense of ownership. Your business could be the answer they re looking for! #3 Go after the large company s small customers. With the cuts they re making, they have few resources to take care of their customers. It s the old 80/20 rule they re likely to super-serve the 20% of their customers that constitute 80% of their sales. Then they may cut back on service for all the rest. Go after these customers that are facing reduced service. They may be a small account to a large company, but they may be one of your biggest customers! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Related posts How Opportunity Often Presents Itself Increase Your Sales by Knowing the Answer to this Question (Image by jpsdq) ShareThis
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 Teachers Teaching Teachers #112 - Revisiting VoiceThread - 07.09.08
from EdTechTalk.com
July 23, 2008
This July, Paul Allison and Julie Conason fascilated a 3-week Writing Project Institute for teachers where we used VoiceThread as the focus of one of our weeks together. In the middle of our work with teachers, we invited Steve Muth, co-founder of VoiceThread, and Colette Cassinelli, a technology teacher near Portland, Oregon who started a wiki that collects examples of VoiceThreads. What will you find on Collette's VoiceThread4Education? Samples submitted by teachers of VoiceThread projects made by their students VoiceThreads used in professional development Resources, including other websites that contain VoiceThread examples Best Practices - tips and ideas of how to best implement VoiceThread in your curriculum Subject area ideas This is your wiki, Colette writes: Please feel free to add any ideas, examples or resources to the site and provide appropriate link attribution. If you are not sure how to embed your VoiceThread projects in wikispaces - follow the directions below. In addition: Paul and Julie invite you to take a look at the Narrative Discussions from our Institute, linked below. We would love your comments on these. VoiceThread Narrative Discussions by Teachers in the NYC Writing Project's Open/Advanced Summer Technology Institute Family Camp by Paul Allison Quality of Life by JoAnn Chen Ellie Tells a Story by Julie Conason Childhood... by Wendy Farkas Life in Shards by Margaret Fiore Honeymoon by Mat Gerowitz My Loving Family by Julia Loving Family Stories by Aileen Malave Travel by Sonali Matani Amsterdam 2008 by Julie Miele My Running... by Beth St John Chat Log read more
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 The Secret to Action
from Bigg Success
July 23, 2008
Sharon Ayn joined us on the show today. She is the author of five books, including the newly released Create Your Own Reality: The Ancient Wisdom. Sharon has made many appearances on radio and television, including the nationally syndicated radio show, Minding Your Business, and an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. . . What inspired you to write your latest book? . . I work with entrepreneurs and people who have been downsized, and I ve found one thing that s consistent. People know they could do better, work less, and make more money, but without someone stimulating their imagination, it s very difficult to go through a change. So the book is designed to help people realize that, no matter what s going on in their life, if they take one step or enroll one person at a time, they can change anything that isn t the way they wanted it. . When we talked before our interview, you said that this book goes beyond where The Secret took us. . . Exactly. I love the fact that The Secret brought consciousness to so many people about staying positive, but the one thing people missed is being in action. You have to be in action. It s not enough just to think about it. You have to take a proactive role in your life. . What do you think keeps people from taking action what is it that holds people back? . . Some people truly believe that they re not entitled. Some people think it s too much work to get what they want. Other people are too overwhelmed by what s first, so they just stay at what they re doing even if it s not what they want. . For someone who feels that, what would be the one thing you would tell them to work on right now? . . Make a list of all the things you want to change, but put it in the positive. I work with clients who want a better job. I get them to describe what it s like to work at the company, what their tasks are, what the people are like that they work with. And then backtrack how do we get to that point? So for anything that you want to change, what is the first step you can take to be in control? Because I think a lot of this is people feeling that they are out of control of their own lives. . That is awesome there s a lot of practical advice that people can use right away in this book. . . It s simple knowledge that most people don t apply to their own life, even though they might be aware of it. . . Oprah calls it the aha moment. What do you call it? . . It s the dawning of the day when, like in City Slickers, you get your do over . So don t think, my life is just surrounded by quagmire, all my friends are always complaining and leaning on me, my relationship isn t working we re fighting all the time, I hate my job, and all these things. Instead, think about every day being brand new. Every day, we get to reinvest ourselves. . Sharon s book comes with bonuses You get an incredible $4,661 in bonuses when you buy Sharon s wonderful book, including great material from: Annie Jennings, who helps people who want to be authors or speakers, and get interviewed on the radio. Dave Sheffield, who works with corporations, helping people take the first step to change what s happening in their career. Jim Bouchard, a good friend of ours, who helps people tap into their personal power. Jim s material alone makes it a great deal to us! Find Sharyn s book at createyours2.com Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Related posts How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Back To The Future: Visualizing The Life You Want (Part 1) Back To The Future: Visualizing The Life You Want (Part 2) ShareThis
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 Audiocast: Post-TILT 2008 SL Preso
from Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net
July 23, 2008
Cleaning out my digital devices, I ran across this impromptu chat with Malinda McCormick (KLRN DIrector, San Antonio, Tx) and Dr. Phil Youngblood (Incarnate Word University, San Antonio, Tx). This took place after my presentation in Second Life about the TILT 2008 presentation which took place last week. More info here. Thanks to Malinda McCormick and Kevin Jarrett, as well as Dr. Phil Youngblood, for their support in helping me be successful. I apologize for taking so long to post this podcast that features Dr. Youngblood's expertise in Second Life. Note that the END of the podcast really isn't. It's hard to stop a conversation that's going full steam ahead, and Dr. Phil Youngblood started sharing some of the things he was doing for his class in Second Life. Of course, I still had the recorder, so I recorded that as well. I'm going to have to follow up for a longer chat! What questions do you have for him that you'd like me to ask regarding teaching a college level class in Second Life? Listen to Conversation
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 SPOS #113 - Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - +1 (206) 666-6056 - Marketing Success This Summer
from Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
July 22, 2008
Welcome to episode #113 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. You'll hear why this show was delayed a couple of days, which leads us into a quick conversation about brands, privacy and the choices we make. There's also tons of listener feedback, insights and comments. There's something about the summer that sparks creativity and the imagination. I was really feeling it this episode. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #113 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 33:06. Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056. Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com. Hello from Beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter. Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society. In a perfect world, I'd love for you to connect with me, directly, through my Facebook profile instead of joining the group - but, that's your call. Check out my other Podcast, Foreword Thinking - The Business And Motivational Book Review Podcast - sponsored by HarperCollins Canada. Foreword Thinking - Episode #10 featuring Dan Ariely. Dan's new book is: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Power Within - Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - Winnipeg Convention Centre. Anthony Robbins. Loretta LaRoche. Mike Lipkin. Phil Town. Special ticket price - $149 - call the Power Within at 1-866-POWER04 - ask for Joseph (extension 229). Montreal Gazette column New Business Six Pixels of Separation. Is Your Sales Rep Some Yahoo Named Google? PodCamp Boston. Request from Sara Wilson Fresh Air Fund. Audio Comment Dave Delaney Dave Made That. Geek Breakfast Nashville. Social Media Breakfast. Email Comment Stefan Holt Active Media. Audio Comment - Morrie Johnston That Happy Feeling. Podcasters Across Borders. Email Comment Steve Cunningham Polar Unlimited. Six Points of Separation Six Books You Should Read This Summer: 1. Web Analytics An Hour A Day Avinash Kaushik. 2. Meatball Sundae Seth Godin. 3. Join The Conversation Joseph Jaffe. 4. Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirkey. 5. The Big Switch Nicholas Carr. 6. Groundswell - Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Music from the Podsafe Music Network: Brother Love Summertime . Please join the conversation by sending in questions, feedback and ways to improve Six Pixels Of Separation. Please let me know what you think or leave an audio comment at: +1 206-666-6056. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #113 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: active media advertising anthony robbins avinash kaushik blog blogging brother love business charlene li clay shirkey dan ariely dave delaney dave made that digital marketing facebook facebook group foreword thinking fresh air fund geek breakfast google groundswell harpercollins canada here comes everybody itunes join the conversation joseph jaffe josh bernoff loretta laroch marketing mass media meatball sundae mike lipkin montreal gazette morrie johnston motivational books nichokas carr online social network phil town podcamp boston podcast podcasters across borders podcasting podsafe music network polar unlimited power within predictably irrational sara wilson seth godin six pixels of separation social media breakfast social media marketing stefan holt steve cunningham that happy feeling the big switch twist image web 20 web analytics an hour a day winnipeg yahoo
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 SPOS #113 - Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - +1 (206) 666-6056 - Marketing Success This Summer
from Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
July 22, 2008
Welcome to episode #113 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. You'll hear why this show was delayed a couple of days, which leads us into a quick conversation about brands, privacy and the choices we make. There's also tons of listener feedback, insights and comments. There's something about the summer that sparks creativity and the imagination. I was really feeling it this episode. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #113 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 33:06. Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056. Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com. Hello from Beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter. Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society. In a perfect world, I'd love for you to connect with me, directly, through my Facebook profile instead of joining the group - but, that's your call. Check out my other Podcast, Foreword Thinking - The Business And Motivational Book Review Podcast - sponsored by HarperCollins Canada. Foreword Thinking - Episode #10 featuring Dan Ariely. Dan's new book is: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Power Within - Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - Winnipeg Convention Centre. Anthony Robbins. Loretta LaRoche. Mike Lipkin. Phil Town. Special ticket price - $149 - call the Power Within at 1-866-POWER04 - ask for Joseph (extension 229). Montreal Gazette column New Business Six Pixels of Separation. Is Your Sales Rep Some Yahoo Named Google? PodCamp Boston. Request from Sara Wilson Fresh Air Fund. Audio Comment Dave Delaney Dave Made That. Geek Breakfast Nashville. Social Media Breakfast. Email Comment Stefan Holt Active Media. Audio Comment - Morrie Johnston That Happy Feeling. Podcasters Across Borders. Email Comment Steve Cunningham Polar Unlimited. Six Points of Separation Six Books You Should Read This Summer: 1. Web Analytics An Hour A Day Avinash Kaushik. 2. Meatball Sundae Seth Godin. 3. Join The Conversation Joseph Jaffe. 4. Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirkey. 5. The Big Switch Nicholas Carr. 6. Groundswell - Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Music from the Podsafe Music Network: Brother Love Summertime . Please join the conversation by sending in questions, feedback and ways to improve Six Pixels Of Separation. Please let me know what you think or leave an audio comment at: +1 206-666-6056. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #113 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: active media advertising anthony robbins avinash kaushik blog blogging brother love business charlene li clay shirkey dan ariely dave delaney dave made that digital marketing facebook facebook group foreword thinking fresh air fund geek breakfast google groundswell harpercollins canada here comes everybody itunes join the conversation joseph jaffe josh bernoff loretta laroch marketing mass media meatball sundae mike lipkin montreal gazette morrie johnston motivational books nichokas carr online social network phil town podcamp boston podcast podcasters across borders podcasting podsafe music network polar unlimited power within predictably irrational sara wilson seth godin six pixels of separation social media breakfast social media marketing stefan holt steve cunningham that happy feeling the big switch twist image web 20 web analytics an hour a day winnipeg yahoo
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Echoes of First Experience - MyPlick and JumpCut
from Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net
July 22, 2008
Inspired by Wes Fryer's experiment with Jumpcut, I took the time to export my Changing Standards presentation that I shared last week with staff (newbies to Read/Write Web tools) to images uploaded to Flickr (using Flickr Uploadr), then import them into JumpCut. You never saw so much frantic writing...all of the ideas and content were brand new to them. After that, as my son played his game in the background--sound muted--I quickly recorded audio to go with the presentation. Now, this is late at night after a long day's work, after a wonderful dinner, and before going out to the library. Ok, enough disclaimers (well, except for my apologies for picking on Doug Blue Skunk Johnson in the middle of the audio evil smile ). The audio is what it is grin and my apologies if I didn't get it just right. Aside: As I listen (38 minutes!) to this presentation during synching, I realize this presentation is flawed. That's probably because i did throw it together, adapting it from a previous presentation on TEA's Technology Immersion grant project. It's not really about changing standards but the six components of Tech Immersion. Nevertheless, it was worth the time to play and experiment. I offer it here as a flawed work (of course, aren't they all?). My goal was to record audio and match that to the slides. I was destined to be disappointed since that level of fine-grained control isn't evident in Jumpcut. However, it was fun to experiment with a new technology. It was at that point I remembered a comment Steve Dembo (Teach42.com) had left, referring me to MyPlick.com. I went over, and uploaded my presentation (PPT or PDF) and my audio (MP3), created my free account, and started syncing it all. Here's what that looks like: Image Caption: Picture at the beginning of the audio syncing process Image Caption: Syncing audio and slides, 3 slides in. Listen to your audio as you click the UP arrow button to move slides up. Wow, what an easy tool. I may abandon slideshare.net for posting if it's this easy to add the audio. The only issue is sitting through the painful audio recording (unedited, BTW) after recording it. Wait, one more problem. While working in MyPlick.com at the end, the buttons started to stick or not click when I clicked on them. not sure what caused that. I finally had to close the window once I managed to SAVE and PUBLISH. Here's what it looks and sounds like...be gentle in the comments smile : Changing National Standards Tags: mguhlin
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Teachers Teaching Teachers #111 - A Delight of Learning at NECC 2008 - 07.02.08
from EdTechTalk.com
July 22, 2008
We asked Scott Floyd to sit with some of his friends and colleagues on July, 2, 2008, the last day of the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, Texas. Scott Floyd talks about meeting with his ePortfolio mentor, Dr. Helen Barrett. Scott Floyd is a Technology Specialist for the White Oak, Texas Independent School District and he's the Tech Liaison for the Bluebonnet Writing Project in Texas. (Image snapped by Bud Hunt, uploaded to Scott's flickr account.) Christine Voigt, Instructional Technology Specialist at Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas, Texas. Christie talks about a project she did in here school with iPods. (Image from Christine's Twitter profile.) Michael Gras, Supervisor of the Technology Department in the White Oak, Texas Independent School District, talks about opening things up as much as possible. (Also in this picture is Jeff Utecht, presenting a dilpoma after the Rib Feast. Found in Scott's NECC2008 flickr set.) Scott Floyd talks with Dean Shareski, a Digital Learning Consultant with the Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. In this podcast, Dean talks about how important it is to find time for teachers to learn how to integrate new technologies into the curriculum. (Paul Wood took this picture during the live webcast. This is also in Scott's NECC2008 flickr set.) Chat Log read more
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 Wrapping up BlogHer
from Real People
July 22, 2008
Wrapping up BlogHer 2008 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here's a quick video interview I did with Jory Des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, on Saturday night as the fourth annual women bloggers' conference was ending. Jory talks about some of the highlights of the gathering, which drew about 1,100 attendees. The lighting at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco is poor, so apologies for the subpar lighting here. Watch video in H.264 on Ourmedia Watch video in Flash on Vimeo
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 121 Days of the week
from Contrast Podcast
July 22, 2008
Hello sunshine, goodbye rain, contrast podcast is here again! Marcy from Lost in your inbox has asked us to choose our favourite songs that involve the days of the week. Who would have thought that Monday would have been the most popular one!? You can hear to the podcast here: You can also download the podcast using this direct link or subscribe to this and future podcasts using our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ContrastPodcast. Playlist: (00:00) Mark Geary - Tuesday Marcy from Lost in your inbox (04:32) Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Tuesday wonderland ZB from So the wind won t blow it all away (10:59) Drive by Truckers - Wednesday Ross from Just gimme indie rock (15:40) The Chameleons - Thursday s child John Q. (19:14) Asobi Seksu - Thursday Tricia (24:08) Jens Lekman - Friday night at the drive in bingo JC aka The Vinyl Villian (29:28) The Specials - Friday night and Saturday morning FiL from Pogoagogo (33:28) De La Soul - A roller skating jam named Saturdays Greer from A Sweet Unrest (37:36) The Leyton Buzzards - Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees Dirk from Sexy Loser (42:31) The Acid House Kings - Sunday morning Tim from The face of today (46:08) Kind Hearts and Coronets - Sunday best Linda from Speed of dark (51:52) David Bowie - Sunday Eiron from The S+7 Method (57:15) The New Radicals - Crying like a church on Monday James from Appetite For Distraction (01:02:31) Wilco - Monday Natalie from Mini-obs (01:06:30) Little Milton - Stormy Monday Chris from Phosphorous.net (01:12:00) Billy Bragg - St. Monday (live) Adam from Pretending life is like a song Daily thanks to all of you for taking part and listening. Next week, thanks to Tricia, we will be taking a long hard look at Religion. If you would like to take part you ll find some instructions here. Please leave a comment about the podcast by clicking here. I found the days of the week painting here.
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 The Riskiest Thing Most of Us Do Every Day
from Bigg Success
July 22, 2008
We saw a great post by John Grohol at PsychCentral called Distracted While Driving. He really caught our attention with one thought. We allow ourselves to be distracted while we drive because we think we re playing a race against time. In reality, we re playing against the odds. A study by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that about 80 percent of all crashes and 65 percent of all near-crashes involved someone who was distracted within three seconds of the event. . . I plead guilty as charged. I have to admit to using my car as a roaming second office. I store up phone messages and return calls while I m on the road. . . . I m in the car on a busy, busy day with all these things rolling through my mind. That s one of the distractions that we often don t take into account. I zone out I don t really pay attention like I should. I m in my own world. . . Psychologists have identified four types of distractions, according to Grohol s article. Visual checking out an accident or looking at a billboard Audible cell phone calls, the radio, or another person talking Physical eating, flipping the dial, shuffling your iPod, or putting on make-up Cognitive daydreaming, thinking about other things in your life Of course, a lot of distractions are multi-faceted. For example, talking on your cell phone includes three of these audible, physical, and cognitive. . I really do think it saves time. We have a friend who consults with us. He talks to us when he s on his hour-and-a-half commute home. I can understand why you would use your phone when you have that long drive. . I won t dispute that at all, but I now realize more than ever that I have to recognize the odds of something happening and take measures to try to minimize the distractions. . . Changes we plan to make Leave earlier. When we have a lengthy trip, we usually don t give ourselves the time to stop and eat. We gas, grab, and go eating on the road. Leaving earlier will allow us time to stop and eat. We ll probably eat healthier, too! Ignore the phone. Granted, that s a hard thing to do. So we re going to turn our ringers off when we re only going to be in the car for a short time. Change our greetings. If we re expecting an important call, we ll change the greeting to let them know when we will be checking our messages. Pull over (if we can). For those rare situations where we have to take the call, we ll stop driving momentarily. What s your biggest distraction while driving? Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. (Image by krilm) ShareThis
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