Executive Edge Newsletter: 5/15/06 to 5/30/06
Welcome. Here is a quick index to the past two weeks business articles I have
posted to our weblog. Thank you for such overwhelming positive
feedback on the new, briefer index-only format for our newsletter.
We are thrilled it helps quickly get to specific articles and
postings that are of interest to you. Enjoy!
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| Index to Articles Published from 5/15/06 to 5/30/06 | ||
| Sales (6) | Noteworthy News (17) | Your People (2) |
| Marketing (12) | Premier Press (1) | Your Process (3) |
| WV Events (3) | Personal Interest (2) | Your Technology (12) |
| WV Business (2) | . | . |
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16 Steps to a Bulletproof Startup
In a great article from Business 2.0, learn how to greatly increase the odds of success in launching your new business. Broken down into 4 key phases, this article outlines what it takes to get started on the right foot.
Posted on 05-30 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your Process
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Governor Manchin and Vision Shared Town Hall Meeting
... Invite you to take a seat at the table as they listen to your ideas for West Virginia's future. May 31st, 630pm-8:30pm.
Posted on 05-30 to categories: WV Business Events | WV Business News
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New
Helmick/Peros Wedding Photo's Online
Our photographer, Joe Mandeville, did a breathtaking job of capturing some moments and memories of a lifetime. Kristen and I are so excited to share some of these with you, our family, friends and acquaintances.
Posted on 05-30 to categories: Personal Interest
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Eight Tips on Leaving an Effective Voicemail Message
From AllBusiness.com and Keith Rosen an Executive Sales Coach: Here is a short and sweet primer on how to make the most impact with the 20-40 seconds you get to communicate with someone via voicemail.
Posted on 05-30 to categories: Sales | Marketing
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Tracking the Effectiveness of Your Marketing
Our good friend Skip Lindberg of Maple Creative tells it like it is. Here is his 5-step program to track the effectiveness of your marketing.
Posted on 05-30 to categories: Marketing
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Teaming to Win Conference in West Virginia
May 31st to June 1st at Stonewall Resort. Teaming to Win is a regional conference devoted to advocating and advancing teaming among businesses and organizations to win contracts, provide services, or develop products. Teaming to Win 2006 will be the seventeenth annual conference. Each year brings interaction with government agencies, innovative activities, new learning opportunities, and the ability to network with old and new friends.
Posted on 05-30 to categories: Marketing | WV Business Events
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Paul Helmick Recognized Who's Who in WV Business
Here is a example of how easy it is to upload and share a video using YouTube. This is a one and a half minute video clip of the WOWK news story covering the awards ceremony and the back story of Paul's receiving this award.
Posted on 05-26 to categories: WV Business Events | WV Business News | Premier Press | Noteworthy News | Personal Interest
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YouTube Posts Incredible Growth
From BusinessWeek Blog Article : 'According to Hitwise, YouTube's marketshare of visits increased 160% over the past three months, keeping it well ahead of MySpace Videos.' If you have not heard of YouTube - wow - Founded in February 2005, it is the most popular video sharing services with over 40 million people watching videos each day.
Posted on 05-26 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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38 Things to Do When Starting a Business
From Forbes: " Thinking about starting a business? You're not alone. Every year, thousands of Americans catch the entrepreneurial spirit, launching small businesses to sell their products or services. Some businesses thrive; many fail." Here is a great one-page list for serious entrepreneurs to consider.
Posted on 05-26 to categories: Marketing | Your People
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694 Million People Currently Use the Internet Worldwide
From ComScore Networks: In launching comScore World Metrix, the company announced that 694 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide from all locations in March 2006, representing 14 percent of the world's total population within this age group. This number marks the first worldwide universe estimate based on a consistent methodology across all countries.
Posted on 05-25 to categories: Marketing | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Free Online Encylopedia: WikiPedia
Begun in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free. They currently host over 1,153,602 articles in English. This is one of the most useful resources on the Internet.
Posted on 05-25 to categories: Your Technology
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A Penny Costs 1.4 Cents to Produce
"Last year, the mint made 7.7 billion of them — more than the number of all the other coins it produced. In the first three months of this year, the pace of penny production rose to an annual rate of 9 billion." this article says.
Posted on 05-24 to categories: Sales | Noteworthy News
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Watch 70 legal TV stations for free
Here is a collection of 70 free legal channels that you can watch from your browser. Includes Game Network, Tv Cartoons, Horror Channel, Comedy Channel, Sci-Fi Channel, Lifestyle Network, and a lot more.
Posted on 05-24 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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SkypeOut Calling now FREE for US & Canada!
Yes. It is really very, very free. There's no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.
Posted on 05-24 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Free Broadband for the Masses
From BusinessWeek Online: Backed by VC cash, a former FCC official\'s startup is out to provide no-fee, ad-supported wireless service. About 40% of U.S. households surf the Net over so-called broadband connections.
Posted on 05-24 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Online Sales to Rise 20% to $211 Billion
From (Reuters) - Online sales are expected to rise 20 percent this year to $211 billion. The article states, "Last year, online sales rose 25 percent to $176.4 billion, with 28 percent growth in online purchases excluding travel. Total Internet sales in 2004 and 2003 reached $141.4 billion and $114.1 billion, respectively."
Posted on 05-23 to categories: Sales | Noteworthy News
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Palm Treo 700p Now Available from Verizon
Just $399 with the rebate - One of the highest-rated SmartPhone's ever - the Treo 700p is now even more new and improved!
Posted on 05-22 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Creating More Women Millionaires
From Business Week: "Only a tiny percentage of the many women-owned businesses break the $1-million threshold in annual revenues. An ambitious program aims to change that." Read about the organization that wants to create a national community of one million women dedicated to growing their companies to $1 million by 2010.
Posted on 05-22 to categories: Your People | Noteworthy News
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List of Every Fortune 500 Company since 1965
From Fortune: Here is a list of every Fortune 500 company since 1965.
Posted on 05-22 to categories: Marketing | Noteworthy News
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Television Advertising Impacted by DVRs
From BusinessWeek: Plummeting Viewership. Advertising Adverse. And a price war with the networks - Are DVR's killing network TV? This is a great article that really makes you think about your television advertising budget and some of the viewing trends racing our way.
Posted on 05-22 to categories: Marketing | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Map Political Contributions in your Zip Code
Highlighted on Digg this is an incredible demonstration of Google Maps to overlay public campaign contribution data. Just enter in the zip code you are interested in and up comes some great summary graphs as well as your local neighborhood map of where the contributions came from!
Posted on 05-19 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Patents to Profits
Incredible... I use VistaPrint for our printing - low cost, high quality, great service with an amazing new web-based printing model. What I didn't know was how well they had used patents on their processes to drive their profits. Read about how Robert Keane's company VistaPrint (nasdaq: VPRT) has grown to over 400 employees serving 6,000,000 customers in 120 countries! This business was just founded in 1995 and is just incredible.
Posted on 05-18 to categories: Marketing | Your Process | Your Technology
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Handheld PDA Market is Shrinking
From Techweb: " Shipments of handheld devices continued their relentless plummet during the first quarter of 2006 dropping 22.3 percent from the same quarter in the previous year, according to an IDC report"
Posted on 05-18 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Best Kept Secrets of World's Best Companies
From Business 2.0: These are some of the most extreme best business practices ever. The top 25 ideas are summarized - and some of them you may have never heard of - but want to implement tomorrow!
Posted on 05-18 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your Process | Noteworthy News
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One Billion Dollars in Sales
From Fortune Small Business: 49 Companies joined the ranks of the superstars, hitting $1B in sales last year.
Posted on 05-17 to categories: Marketing | Noteworthy News
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Color Coded Map of Gasoline Prices
GasBuddy.com maintains a particularly interesting color-coded map that tracks gasoline price levels county by county across the country
Posted on 05-17 to categories: Noteworthy News
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Back Up Your Cell Phone's Address Book
From PCWorld.com: This is a great article on how to not lose all your addresses when you switch or replace your cell phone!
Posted on 05-17 to categories: Your Technology