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.
David at Marketing Integrity pointed the way to this post on work and time by James at Agile Ministry, and I’m glad he did. We all know we shouldn’t be workaholics. We all are at times, though. James manages to clarify the real issues and pitfalls of going down that trail too often. My favorite [...]
Seth Godin sums up marketing this way: “Make promises and keep them.” If this is at all an accurate definition (and I believe it is), then my marketing lately sucks. I haven’t called customers back in a timely manner. I haven’t followed up with vendors. I’ve been missing deadlines. I haven’t sent email newsletters out [...]
I’m a little behind on sharing some great reading, but here are some highlights from the past couple months. Finding an extra 15 hours in your week. Seems the Marketing Minute posted all the great marketing blogs out there, and the next question became “How in the world do I find time to keep up [...]
We’re all driven by the end goal of whatever projects we pour ourselves into. We invest so we have lots of money in 30 or so years. We write so people will read our thoughts and even comment. We play a game or sport so we can win at it. We go above and beyond [...]
Here are a few great links my mouse happened to find this past week: How to Make a Living Writing: This is an excellent series on writing with some practical tips from a successful but obviously approachable writer. They’ve Ruined Wednesdays: Jim makes a great point on when the best day to send emails is. [...]
Good reading from a good weekend: Take Home Bag vs. Fake Home Bag: Ed puts things in perspective a bit about taking work home. Why are you doing it? How often do you really do it? Do you really have to do it? SES Session: Landing Page Optimization: Search Engine Marketing is fascinating to me. [...]
