Often we get so caught up in our new ideas that we forget to stop and ask ourselves if we are really solving a problem and if so, which problem. Head snugglers solve a problem. But it’s not for kids’ necks. (When have you ever heard about a toddler complaining about a stiff neck?) Head […]
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My blog post about Kindle covers brought in enough revenue in December to pay for my Kindle. It now brings in enough every month to cover my Kindle reading habit. Granted, I could use that money for something else, but I like to think of it as my Kindle paying for itself. I mean, I
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I was talking to Leslie Hawthorn and we had what we thought was a brilliant idea for a new business for writers. At least we'd sign up to be customers! Business idea: Writing LinkedIn Recommendations Here's how it could work: Potential customer pays for help writing a recommendation. ($10-20?) Potential customer calls writer. (Or writer
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Dear Amazon, I would like to buy more books from you. In order to be able to give you more money for more books I need: A Kindle reader for my G1 Android phone. If I could read my Kindle books on my phone, I would buy many more books from you. Kill Kindle DRM
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If you follow any of the links to Amazon in this post, any purchases you make will send a referral fee to the GNOME Foundation. Peter Drucker‘s Managing the Nonprofit Organization was full of good ideas. I started ripping off pieces of my bookmark to mark interesting pages and ended up with no bookmark! Managing
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I finished listening to the The Wal-Mart Effect this weekend. The author's main point is that Walmart has gotten too large – or at least larger than we ever planned for when we planned how companies should be regulated. He argues that Walmart with $375 billion worth of sales is beyond market capitalization and beyond
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I really enjoyed the first part of The Marketing Playbook by John Zagula & Richard Tong but it took me forever to get through the last two parts. In the first part of the book, the authors (old Microsoft Windows and Office marketing guys) explain the five basic marketing strategies they see. The Drag Race.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It is a great book. I've always thought that traditional work would eventually transition to contract work where people get paid to produce certain results. The problem with that is not all work fits contract work. Cali and Jody have envisioned (and implemented!) a workplace with traditional employment
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Everyone knows that you get what you measure. But what my treadmill taught me is, you get what you measure whether you have goals or not! I decided to start running again and I set three guidelines or goals for myself: Run everyday. Run 3 miles a day. Run on the treadmill. I decided it
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A long, long time ago, in a land far away, when we used to dial a phone number to get to the internet, HP gave me a 1-800 number for internet access when I was traveling. Since I traveled a lot, I set my default number to the 1-800 number and merrily went along my
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