The BBC World News – Business Daily speaks with Palo Alto Software CEO, Sabrina Parsons about family succession. The conversation touches on the topics of “good and bad nepotism” and the worry that if family-run businesses don’t pass down from parent to child, the outcome for the business can in some cases be quite dire. [...]
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Books: falling out of fashion, perhaps, but – business books, for sure – still so amazingly practical. What’s an hour of your time worth? How much time can a business book save? I posted here last week, in this context, about John Jantsch’s new book on referral marketing. And today it’s Melinda Emerson’s Become Your [...]
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Are you teaching a class on starting a business? If you are, then I’d like you to be aware of course.bplans.com. That’s where I’ve put up a full curriculum/syllabus including lesson plans, exercises and assignments, online videos, and more than a dozen PowerPoint slide presentations complete with slide-by-slide notes and distribution-friendly photos and graphics. This [...]
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Sabrina Parsons posted For the best customer service: TWEET! on her MommyCEO blog earlier this month. She’d called customer service repeatedly, left messages and gotten no response. Then she tweeted about it, and this (the photo below) is what she got: a new, replacement pair of shoes for her son. This could seem like a good [...]
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Yes, I’m biased, but still, this is a good list of tips from Sabrina Parsons on the She Takes on the World blog. People are the most important asset in your business. People are also much harder to manage than products or services. As an entrepreneur, you may have heard this from other people: Hire [...]
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Palo Alto Software’s CEO, Sabrina Parsons, was interviewed by Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand this morning. During the podcast, they talked about online marketing, the difference between advertising and marketing, the link between social media and customer service, and lots more. Make sure to check out the rest of Anna’s podcasts and articles. Lots [...]
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Have you heard about Startup Weekend? If you live around the San Francisco area, you might want to look into it, but do it quick, time’s running out! Startup Weekend is a community building startup event. Local developers, marketers, designers, and enthusiasts gather together and do what they do best. Start projects and companies. No [...]
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Palo Alto Software CEO, Sabrina Parsons will be one of the guests on Friday’s Business Insanity Talk Radio with host Barry Moltz tomorrow morning. Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. This is a business radio show where we talk about [...]
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This is the second of three parts. The first part appeared here a month ago. All three were published first on Entrepreneur.com, and are based on the book 3 Weeks to Startup, which I co-authored along with Sabrina Parsons. That book, published by Entrepreneur Press, came out in the autumn of 2008. It’s built on the [...]
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