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Monday, Feb 13, 2012
Draw a lesson from merger of United and Continental Airlines coffee: Get the market to validate your ideas quickly.
Thursday, Jan 12, 2012
Recognizing the anomaly in a situation is a way to avoid a problem - or catch it before it becomes a real difficulty.
We have a local group using our training room this very cold morning. When I arrived, the cleaning staff said the training room was very cold and didn't seem like the heat was on. As I feared, the heat was out in the room (we moved the group meeting to another space). An unfortunate, but not uncommon event you might just chalk up to bad luck.
Monday, Dec 5, 2011
We are integrating this blog from Google's Blogger site into the Meridian Technology Center website.
Friday, Nov 4, 2011
I had the opportunity yesterday to participate in a presentation by the Oklahoma City Marine Corps office on how they might adapt their Leadership program for entrepreneurship and business leadership (see, for example, Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way).
Among many interesting ideas presented, the following stand out:
Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011
About 6 months ago, I purchased a new BlackBerry phone. As I used it, I noticed there was an inordinate number of double-typing – in typing “how are you?” it would spell out, “hhhhooww arrre youuu?”
I just assumed it was my poor typing.
Finally I decided to do a quick Google search to see if anyone else had reported the same issue. It turns out that there is a problem with that model phone manufactured during a certain time period that was causing the issue. I then called my carrier, and sure enough, they will exchange the phone (for a slight fee as it is out of warranty).
Tuesday, Sep 6, 2011
My wife and I were shopping at Barnes & Noble bookstore this weekend and when we got home, I noticed in addition to our receipt and books, our bag contained a short slip printed after the receipt that gave us 4 recommendations for other books, based on our purchase.
Thursday, Aug 18, 2011
At the beginning of each Entrepreneur Breakfast, I ask any new attendees to stand up and give their name, company and what it does. This morning because our speaker had to leave early, I skipped that part of our introductions. As the breakfast came to a conclusion, I still had not asked new attendees to introduce themselves.
One of our regulars asked, "aren't we going to have new attendees introduce themselves?"
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011
In his book, "Save the Cat", Blake Snyder describes how to write a good movie screenplay.
One of his pieces of advice has to do with the theme of the movie (what the movie is about). He says it's helpful if the movie is the 'same thing,...only different.' The idea is if someone is considering what movie to go watch, he needs to be able to fit it into his mental map of the type of movie it is, before he'll go see it.
Monday, Jul 11, 2011
I must admit it is (a little) heartening when I read a news article whose point of view substantiates the advice we provide business owners.
An article on CNN about Rick Harrison of the tv show "Pawn Stars" describes his secrets of success. The article lists five secrets -
Monday, Jun 27, 2011
I have noticed recently that the quality of small business marketing material has increased dramatically. Whether through the printing and layout of menu's online, to business cards, to simple logo design - the overall quality is quite good, especially given the costs associated.
What remains poor, generally, is the location - where the marketing is targeted.
I have had more than one business owner tell me he is on Facebook, has his own Twitter feed, great logo and design, etc - but no clients!
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