Dan Schawbel, Me 2.0, and Personal Branding

By Tim Berry

What does personal branding mean to you? To me it used to be about well-known experts whose names became brands in an almost-traditional business sense: Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin, Tom Peters; they were experts whose names sold books and speaking engagements. Lately my view of personal branding has expanded as I start following John Jantsch,... Read More »

Kindle and iPhone: New Killer App

By Tim Berry

We used to talk a lot about the "killer app" back in the early days of personal computing, late 1970s and early 1980s, when a killer application was something that would create a new market, or bring a technology into... Read More »

Thanks Anita Plan-As-You-Go Book Giveaway

By Tim Berry

Anita Campbell is giving away copies of my Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan book over at her Small Business Trends blog. She posted this offer last Friday for her birthday (nice touch) and offered five books to be given at random from... Read More »

The Future: Hot, Flat, Crowded

By Tim Berry

On Monday I posted some predictions from the World Future Society, what I consider to be an interesting list of believable possibilities for the next 25 years. Today I want to add another view. I've heard several interviews with Thomas... Read More »

Reality Check: What Biz School Can't Teach

By Tim Berry

Many long years ago, during the last weeks of a two-year MBA program, I was in a class that ended up discussing what we had and hadn't learned. Disappointments came up. I was an outsider, I was happy with having... Read More »

More on Accountability

By Tim Berry

The other day when I posted my accountability dip post, I received an email newsletter from The Oz Principle people, specifically Partners In Leadership® - The Accountability Training® Company. Of course this isn't just coincidence. And, while I plead ignorance... Read More »

Can You Really Start a Business in Three Weeks?

By Tim Berry

Yes, you can. Maybe not all businesses. Maybe not any business. Some businesses, though, can start in three weeks. My first business started the day a former client called and asked my to do a market study in Venezuela. That... Read More »

Using the Blog Platform for Writing a Book

By Tim Berry

A week or so ago I finished a complete non-fiction book draft using a password-protected blog as the writing platform. I used my TypePad account, but it could have just as easily been in WordPress. I don't know the other... Read More »