Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade, drew out the best of me for his podcast with me that he posted yesterday. He has a real knack for getting into the bigger issues, like both sides of entrepreneurship, and how important the rest of your life is, as compared to your business.
Yes, we do talk about [...]
A bit early on my coast, but I’ll be joining Jim Blasingame tomorrow morning at 8:30 Eastern, on his daily talk radio show. I hope you join us. We’ll be talking about business planning.
I hope it doesn’t seem like total self promotion — I’ve tried to avoid that as much as possible on this blog — but hey, tomorrow Palo Alto Software is going to give away thousands of copies of Business Plan Pro (and not a light version, the upscale, premier version) for free to Oregonians who [...]
How does business planning change in this new world of instant media, short attention spans, and rapid change? Is it different these days? Can we plan at all? And secondly, from the point of view of the angel investor, what does an investor look at in a business plan.
I had a very friendly, fun, and [...]
I like the title: "Just Start," as in start your business, shades of the now famous Nike "Just do it" campaign. Just start.
I’m pleased to be speaking along with John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing, Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE, and Rich Sloan of StartupNation for this free webinar next wednesday.
It’s a free [...]
Blogs are supposed to be personal, right? So allow me to personalize. Let’s consider the plight of one Megan Berry, 22 years old today, graduating from Stanford in two months with close to straight As.
Megan wants a job. More specifically, she wants a job related to social media and Internet marketing in the Silicon Valley.
In [...]
I’m sorry for the late notice, but, if you’re in or near Eugene, Oregon tomorrow Jan. 22, Sabrina Parsons and I are doing a planning workshop for smartups.org. Live and in person. That’s 5 to 7 pm at the Vistas…
My friend and colleague John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing, sent me this overnight. I had the pleasure of participating in one of his workshops last month in Chicago, and I highly recommend it. If you’re anywhere near Northern…
I just got an email from Roger Parker, who will be be interviewing me Today live on the Guerrilla Marketing Association website, from 7 to 9 PM EDT, meaning 4 to 5 PM for us West Coasters. He seems to…
I hope you’ll forgive me this post, but it took a long time writing, absorbed most of my Spring, and involved a lot of work by other people with editing, design, and so so forth. These things go up and…