Microsoft Small Business Summit 2008, a free on-line event, is running through the 27th of this month and it’s packed with awesome sessions for small business owners and entrepreneurs. John Jantsch, from Duct Tape Marketing, is presenting along with a long list of other well known and excellent small business experts. Microsoft is delivering a [...]
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The 5th Annual Small Business BC business plan competition just concluded. It sounds like the event was a huge success this year with over 170 qualified applicants, great finalists, and a great winning business plan. Meet the winners. Danita Harty, over at fundfindr.tv, wrote a nice post about the event. fundfinder.tv is also featuring a [...]
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Forbes.com will be kicking off their Boost Your Business competition April 2nd. The prize – a $100,000 cash infusion for your business. So dust off your business plan and get ready to convince Forbes.com that your business, above all others, can do the most with that fat pile of money. This is the 2nd year [...]
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Gathering information is often one of the most challenging aspects of preparing a business plan or a marketing plan. A good plan supports assumptions with facts. Who says, besides you, the market for your product is going to grow 200% annually for the next five years? A recent post by Michael Stelsner over on Copyblogger [...]
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Douglas De Jager, CEO of UK startup dotHomes, just released a cool Google Maps mashup (def.) that plots tech startups. If you have a tech startup email mapstartup@gmail.com with your location, URL, tag line/slogan, and logo URL – to put your startup on the map ; ) View Larger Map
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Are you running a "Green" business? Are you building "Green" products? Is the brightness of your "Greenness" important to your customer? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, let it shine, make sure your customers know about your "Greenness." I’ll give you an example of a local business that’s doing a great job [...]
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I love passing on good customer service stories in my blog posts? Why? Because I want business decision makers to know that putting a little extra effort into customer service makes a difference and the free publicity is a nice way to reward good customer service. Writing this post was especially fun for me because [...]
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Guy Kawasaki, and his recently released Truemors.com website, is in the spotlight this week and not for the right reasons. Guy has been very open about his Truemors.com start-up experience and this is giving the blogosphere and the rest of the press plenty of opportunity to criticize him. Today, Adario Strange over at Wired Epicenter, [...]
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The Anti 9-to-5 Guide posts today about the upcoming Seattle BizJam indie business conference that’s coming up on June 9th. Pricing is affordable and the speakers are interesting. They have a session titled "Business Plans – Your Roadmap to Freedom" that sounds good and loads of other things on the "BizJam" ; ) packed schedule. [...]
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McKinsey & Company is launching a virtual business plan competition in Second Life. Be part of the first truly global business-building contest ever held in the virtual world! The Virtual Venture Competition is your chance to turn your innovative ideas into successful business operations in Second Life. From 3pointD.com The competition is open to students [...]
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