How to Stop Micromanaging in 3 Easy Steps
By Tim Berry
How could anybody resist this title? How to Spot a Micromanager, on Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog. As I clicked I was guessing my answer: My guess was that the micromanager would be that person you know who is chronically frustrated with people asking him or her questions all the time instead of just doing things.... Read More »
Does it Take a Social Media Code of Ethics or is it Plain Obvious?
By Tim Berry
This is the complete unedited text of an email I received last week. It’s just the latest one. I get a lot of them. Hi Tim, I was wondering if you took paid guest posts on your site? Not a traditional “guest post” but one you’d be compensated for and have complete editorial control over.... Read More »
Let's All Change the Word Entrepreneur To Empresario
By Tim Berry
On Monday my friend Robert Jones of Penpoint Group posted 5 reasons we need a new word for entrepreneurs. They were: It’s French It’s ridiculously hard to type It’s not Twitter friendly It’s been thoroughly bastardized. (mompreneur, solopreneur, and intrapreneur, etc.) It’s begging for a lawsuit. (from Entrepreneur Magazine) The first four are enough for... Read More »
Friday Footprints: 5 Good Posts For July 8
By Tim Berry
First, my thanks to Catharina Belgraver for helping me come up with Friday Footprints, in response to my post here last Friday. Steve Tobak has a good one on the real secret to personal productivity on BNET. He lists what other people say on this subject, then gets down to his own formula. I remember... Read More »
5 Good Posts for Friday July 1
By Tim Berry
I need your help: Can you suggest a way to give a theme and a title to a series of Friday posts listing good posts and recommended links I’ve seen from the last week? My title here is too dull. I’m not nearly good enough at titles. I don’t want to do this every Friday,... Read More »
Compare Your Marketing Mix to This Bar Chart
By Tim Berry
The eloquent bar chart here speaks long and loud about changing the marketing mix. It shows where marketers report their business lead come from. Look at it and tell me what it says about the businesses that aren’t at all online: I picked this chart out of literally dozens of great charts related to marketing,... Read More »
When Is a Business Plan Not a Business Plan?
By Tim Berry
This has been bugging me for a long time now: It turns out that the phrase “business plan” is a homonym, exactly as in these examples from yourdictionary.com: Just like the different meanings for crane and date, there are at least two completely different meanings for the two-word phrase “business plan:” Business plan: what’s supposed... Read More »
5 Good Posts for Friday May 6
By Tim Berry
I’m in Austin TX today looking forward to two full days judging the University of Texas’ Venture Labs business plan competition, which is something like a grand finale, bringing together 36 teams that have won other competitions. This is the original Moot Corp, started in 1984, the first MBA-level business plan contest that I ever... Read More »
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