Now What?
Not every deal will work out and not every proposal will get accepted. Your reaction to these events can shape how you move forward though, and cause ripple effects you may not have considered.
Cultural Offering (which you really should be reading regularly) offers up some excellent advice on how to respond when things don't go well.
101+1 Small Business Marketing Questions
This is probably my favorite thing I've found on the Internet in a long while.
Hopefully you went through an exercise like this when you started your business, but how has your market changed? Does your message still fit the reality of what your business has become?
Pick 25-50 questions.
Answer them as honestly and expansively as you can.
Follow your intuition. Trust the answers to lead you to make the right decisions.
Come back in three months and do it again, with the same or different questions.
via 101+1 Small Business Marketing Questions For People Who Don’t Speak Marketing | IttyBiz.
I've got my initial batch of questions picked out. How about you?
Unclutter Your Life in One Week
Congratulations to Erin Doland of Unclutterer on the release of her book Unclutter Your Life in One Week. I'm a big fan of the blog and am looking forward to reading the book when it arrives here in my office.
Today is the day Unclutter Your Life in One Week officially goes on sale. It has been a roller-coaster ride, and I am so glad to finally be at this stage in the process. Expanding the Unclutterer message to a new medium is honestly a dream come true. My sincerest desire is that this book will help people discover the benefits of an uncluttered life and inspire them to clear the clutter to pursue what they value most.
via Official release: Unclutter Your Life in One Week | Unclutterer.
If you're interested in writing your own book, Nicholas Bate is continuing his excellent series How to Write & Publish Your Business Book.
Me, Elsewhere – Google Reader
I consume most of my news using the Google Reader, a program which pulls news and information from hundreds of web sites and blogs I subscribe to in to one convenient place.
I like being able categorize things, scan through them quickly and then easily share some things that I find most interesting. A nice feature is that Google aggregates these items in to one page that you can visit to keep up to date on this sort of thing.
If you're interested in seeing the things I share (that don't make it here) head on over to my Shared Reader Page and take a look. It's not all tech or business but it might be interesting or useful.
If you're a Google Reader user and have a shared items feed, let me know.
Make The Most Of Your Meetings
Lee Cash on How to Make Meetings Matter
Now that we have all settled comfortably into our inter-connected worlds, more and more people view meetings as atavistic hindrances; superfluous and futile time-pits in which we waste our days and sanity when there’s work to be done, darn it!
Sounds like he used to work the same places I did. Rather than just complain, this article offers some excellent tips on how to make the meetings you do have productive.
I wonder how many meetings will be held to discuss their implementation?
Less is More
Bradford Shimp on how to Become a Master of Short Sentences.
Master the format of short and quick, and you have a much better chance of someone hearing out the rest of your story. Make your introduction your message, and elaborate if you need to. It's even better if you can boil down your message so that it needs no elaboration.
Here’s a hint. Every time you look at your marketing message, don’t think of what you can add to it, but rather what you can cut out of it.
Don’t Put Off Reading This
The Unclutterer blog is a great resource about getting and staying organized. I notice they are posting some excerpts from an upcoming book and I really liked these Eight strategies to stop procrastinating. Might have to add this one to the wish list...
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