I found myself chatting with a colleague yesterday about business, ideas, the future, etc. And I found myself emphatically stating what I already knew:
I like small business.
Yes, that’s a broad term, but for the sake of discussion, let’s just say it’s 100 employees or less. Since beginning what I consider to be my professional career (no, I don’t include my summer of 39 hours working at a Hardee’s in Frankford, Kentucky in this…), I’ve worked for all different sizes of companies. Less than 15 people. Then approx. 100 people. Then around 1,000 people. Then around 200 people.
4 Amazing Fundamentals of Marketing for Direct Sellers, by Brett Duncan.
Joint ventures fail because the joint venture partners are never as powerful as a single owner.
The next best thing rarely becomes the next best thing. Why products that position themselves as an updated version of another product never make it.
The problem with that thinking is that it takes a heck of a lot more blood, sweat and tears to get that ground floor opportunity off the ground when you’re there in the beginning than it does later on.
OK, I haven’t passed along some great links in a LONG time, so here’s to catching up. This stuff is really, really good.
Network Marketing Now posted an excellent article by Len Clements on how Network Marketing/Direct Sales conquers the four most quoted fears that keep people from starting their business. To paraphrase:
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can not get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere.
– Lee Iacocca
Steve at StartUp Blog got me thinking with this post titled The Big Win. In his post, Steve explains how we so often count on the next big thing to get us the big win. But it never happens. In his words, “The big win is a hoax. If we want a big win, we’re better [...]
Jim has collected an amazing collection of concise marketing tips here worth looking at. Plus, he did it all through Twitter. Here are a few of my favorites: Marketing is like a snowball. You have to keep rolling to see results. You can’t start and stop and start and stop. – Cynthia Powell www.ChicksAndCubs.com [...]
