Jumpstart your business with a Field Trip July 15, 2010
Posted by theinfosearcher in Business Tips & Resources, General, Information Research.Tags: collaboration, Creative ideas, idea generation, ideas sharing, innovation, small business, small business idea generation
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Yes, you heard right! How about a little field trip?
As a small business owner it can often be hard to “think-outside-the-box” when you are steeped with work, juggling the demands of daily business operations, management and leadership while trying to come up with creative ways to run a business. Does that sound familiar to you?
As entrepreneurs continue to attend roundtables, forums, networking sessions, workshops, or form discussion groups in the hopes of coming away from the experience, inspired, and motivated to make some much needed changes in the way they handle business, why not schedule a field trip to a local business to get those creative juices flowing?
There’s a lot that you can take away from businesses that are not similar to your own. And it could also be beneficial to schedule one of these every quarter, if not every month (if possible), to generate some creative ideas on how other businesses are innovating or coping with similar problems.
But as you ponder this idea and decide to meet with a local business of choice, be candid about your intentions when you schedule a meeting with the CEO or owner of the business. You never know, they just may even be able to provide you with solutions to some of those pesky little problems through your interaction during the field trip.
At a loss for Keywords/Phrases? June 17, 2010
Posted by theinfosearcher in General, Information Research, Internet Marketing.Tags: Google Wonder Wheel, Internet Marketing, Keyword mapping, Keyword search, Phrases, SEO
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Trying to decide on the optimal keywords to use for website SEO can often be daunting and painstaking. The latest tool provided by Google may just be what you need to trigger keywords/phrases that would be most suitable for use on your website or any other searchable sites. Google’s Wonder Wheel mind maps the search terms and phrases and provides you with alternatives to the direct search term that you use to describe the products or services. It is remarkable! Give it a shot.
Interested in Executive Buzz? March 25, 2009
Posted by theinfosearcher in Business Tips & Resources, General, Information Research, Internet Marketing.Tags: Exectweet, executive buzz, executive chatter, Executive twitter, Federated Media, Twitter, Twittering executives
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Wasn’t it just yesterday that Twitter got off the ground? It has quickly segmented its market, and now, has expanded to ExecTweets, a site devoted to what executives are saying on Twitter. ExecTweets is a partnership between Federated Media and Microsoft. It is a platform that “aggregates the tweets of top execs and empowers the community to surface valuable and insightful business-related tweets”.
ExecTweets, still in its infancy and currently being offered as a beta site, boasts of 75-80 top executives. The Twitter craze has definitely caught on and is poised to grow.
ExecTweets gives you the option of joining the tweet or recommending an executive that should be on the site by replying to @exectweets via Twitter, or alternatively, you can follow the executive chatter on ExecTweet.
