January 2008
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Super Bowl XLII, GoDaddy.com, and $4300 tickets
Super Bowl XLII is right around the corner and I’ve got front row seats! Well, not really. My front row seat will be on my nice, soft couch watching the game in high def on my Samsung DLP. You see, even though the game is just a few miles away from my [...]
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship
A recently released book, The Illusions of Entrepreneurship, has me completely distressed (and I haven’t even read the thing yet!). In the book, economics professor Scott A. Shane shares some of the “less than pleasant” facts about entrepreneurship. As a precursor to the book’s release, a “quiz” circulated the Internet. You can [...]
Leads are like salad
I read something from Joanne Black the other day that’s been bothering me. I like Joanne Black. She’s the author of No More Cold Calling and I recommend her stuff. But she wrote a column the other day suggesting small businesses should throw out all the people in their database [...]
Killer Conferences
I’m a big fan of conferences and events. Not the touchy-feely, rah-rah ones, but the events where you convince your spouse that it’s going to be good and then you travel forever to get there… and within the first hour you think to yourself, “I could go home right now and it would have [...]
Recession Impact on Small Businesses
I was watching the 6pm news last night, and heard a story about the impact small businesses have on the job market. It related: how small businesses generate 60-80% of all new jobs and are at the heart of our economy, how a recession would impact small businesses, and, again, how much small businesses impact [...]
Someone, Please Take My Money!
Contributed by Tyler Garns, Director of Marketing
At a previous job, I received a $2,500 prepaid American Express awards card for being amongst the top performing sales people. Since the expiration date on that card is approaching, my wife and I decided to book our vacation to Mexico for this March. We’ve had it [...]
Making the new year great
I love this time of year. Resolutions, goals and high hopes are all around us. And hopefully, their alive and well within us. For small businesses, it’s an especially good time to kick off new goals and habits… and resolve that this year will be the best year yet.
I read [...]
