Executive Edge Newsletter: 7/1/06 to 7/30/06
Here are 25 new links, articles, resources, tips, trends
and technologies that can be helpful in growing and building your
business. As always, Thank You for your feedback and your sharing
with us some of the great resources that you discover that can help
others! I hope you have had a great summer and with kids going back to
school are looking forward to the months ahead!
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| Index to Articles Published from 7/1/06 to 7/30/06 | ||
| Sales (7) | Noteworthy News (15) | Your People (5) |
| Marketing (8) | Premier Press (0) | Your Process (3) |
| WV Events (3) | Personal Interest (1) | Your Technology (11) |
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$60 Million in 18 Months - Digg.com's Founder
Many of you saw the cover story on Business Week a few days ago about Kevin Roses tremendous success with www.digg.com and having redefined the news industry. We wrote an article on him just a couple months ago. Well this cover story has stirred up alot of controversy about the hype associated with some of these web startups. Here are two more realistic views of what's happening in this Web 2.0 space. Still promising - but not as hyped as the lead article.
Posted on 07-30 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Honeymoon Photo's Online for Paul & Kristen
Much requested by friends and family - here are the photo's from our trip to Riviera Maya, Cancun Mexico. It was just a fantastic trip and such a great start to our new life together!
Posted on 07-30 to categories: Personal Interest
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Innova's FastTrac GrowthVenture Entrepreneurial Training Programs
Starting in September, the Kauffman FastTrac GrowthVenture Program is a ten-week, ten-module educational program created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs that is designed to help participants look at their entire business. Delivered locally by seasoned entrepreneurs in the community, it's hands-on program uses participants' businesses as case studies, giving them the opportunity to put proven business practices to work for them.
Posted on 07-29 to categories: Your People | WV Business Events | Noteworthy News
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CityNet Launches Digital Phone Service
Citynet Digital Phone Service is now available for the low price of $24.95 a month - giving you unlimited calls anywhere in the US. They just had an open house in Charleston and the service is pretty incredible. They have an excellent product/service offering that has every feature you could want. All you need is a cable or DSL connection to the Internet. There are no contracts, they provide the hardware, you keep your phone number and setup is easy. The service includes real time online account management and 24/7/365 access to customer support.
Posted on 07-29 to categories: Your Technology | WV Business News
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Google's 10 Golden Management Rules
Here are some great lessons from a clear winner in their field. This article shares Google's 10 Golden Rules of Management. Below is the link and we've summarized these for you into one short list. Very insightful and it seems to help people give the company their very best.
Posted on 07-28 to categories: Your People | Your Process
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WV to Host Nation's Governors
From WV Inc Online: Governor Joe Manchin III has announced that West Virginia will host the National Governors Associations Seminar for New Governors for the second consecutive time. "It is such an honor for West Virginia to host this vital seminar for the second time," Manchin said. The Seminar for New Governors is held every two years; the last event was hosted by former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise at The Greenbrier.
Posted on 07-27 to categories: WV Business Events | Noteworthy News
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Inc's Guide to Raising Startup Capital
From Inc.com: Let's face it. Starting a business is tough. You have to build a client base, hire employees, find office space. There are plenty of challenges, but the one that many entrepreneurs find most daunting is raising start-up capital. Here is a site FULL of great resources for finding your funding.
Posted on 07-26 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your People | Noteworthy News
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Why Entrepreneurs Need Friends and Advisors
This is an incredible story of a very successful business owner (sold his business to Warren Buffett) who tapped the professional and personal wisdom of an informal board of directors. The experience he shares provides valuable insight as does his 6 key strategies for having an informal board.
Posted on 07-25 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your People | Your Process
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Bootstrapping your Business - 11 Tips
Guy Kawasaki, author of 'The Art of the Start' is an experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist and I think, a great resource to new entrepreneurs. In his weblog, he shares 11 fantastic tips that will provide some great guidance to anyone getting a business going by the bootstraps.
Posted on 07-24 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your People | Your Process | Noteworthy News
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Short Video: The Dream Car for Ladies!
Just for fun - sometime these little videos are SO worth sharing.. This one's pretty catchy :-) Enjoy.
Posted on 07-23 to categories: Your Technology
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Small Business Survival Statistics
From the StartupJournal.com: What's the truth behind supposed studies that show about 80% or so of small businesses fail within their first five years? While there is no clear evidence to back up those numbers, the bad news is, they may be true. A close up look look at this 'statistic'.
Posted on 07-21 to categories: Noteworthy News
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Fox's $1 billion Search Deal with Google - MySpace
From TechCrunch: Fox Interactive Media has entered into a nearly $1 billion, 3+ year deal with Google to exclusively power search across most Fox online sites, including Myspace. The partnership will begin in the fourth quarter of this year and extend though the second quarter of 2010.
Posted on 07-20 to categories: Marketing | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites
From Hitwise: This July, MySpace has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. This is an incredible result in just a couple of years - the opportunity for business development and for advertisers is just tremendous.
Posted on 07-19 to categories: Marketing | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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80% of mobile calls are just to 4 people and our 6 preferred ways
to communicate
From BusinessWeek Online: Cell phone users spend lots of time talking into their devices, but they generally communicate with very few people. Just how few? Would you believe four? Here is an excellent summary defining our new six communication channels.
Posted on 07-19 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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Study: Number of franchises is soaring
From CNNMoney.com: Established franchises are booming, while over 500 new franchises were formed last year. A third of all franchises had more than 100 operating outlets and nearly half had more than 50.
Posted on 07-18 to categories: Sales | Noteworthy News
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Online Retail Spending Expected To Top $100 Billion This Year
E-commerce sales rose to $80.8 billion from $67.2 billion during the same period last year, ComScore Networks reported this week. Nontravel retail increased 24.6% from a year ago to $46.1 billion, and travel spending rose 14.7% to $34.7 billion.
Posted on 07-17 to categories: Sales | Noteworthy News
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YouTube serves 100m videos each day
As reported by TechCrunch - YouTube announced it's hit the 100m videos per day mark. It's estimated that 60% of the videos watched online are now served by YouTube. In June 2.5 billion videos were watched on YouTube and with 30 employees, the company has over 65,000 videos updated daily.
Posted on 07-17 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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World's Youngest Billionaires in Photos
From Forbes - Among the 793 billionaires Forbes found in 2006, only 11 of them, or 1%, were under the age of 35. Of those, five inherited their fortunes, the other six created their own wealth. Here's a short article and photo slide show of these 11 fortunate folks.
Posted on 07-16 to categories: Noteworthy News
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Compare Gmail vs Yahoo Mail vs Hotmail
Compare the features of the three most popular free, web-based email services on the web! Very helpful if you are trying to choose one - even more helpful if you think you might try switching to one with more features.
Posted on 07-15 to categories: Your Technology
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How to Launch a Business in your 20s
A great article from the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal team - 'Building a business as a twentysomething has its own special challenges. On the one hand, you have decades to recover financially if the business goes bust. And you're less likely to be tied down with big financial commitments, such as kids, that often scare older people away from self-employment. On the other hand, you may lack the money, life experience and connections that are crucial to make a business work.' A recommended reading if this thought hits home.
Posted on 07-14 to categories: Sales | Marketing
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Sales of Handheld PDAs Decline
From Techweb - Sales of handheld devices have fallen for the 10th consecutive quarter, as the market continues its shift to advanced cellular phones with many of the same capabilities, a research firm said. The number of handheld devices shipped in the second quarter ended June 30 dropped 26.3 percent from the same period a year ago.
Posted on 07-13 to categories: Your Technology
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The World's 2000 Largest Public Companies
From Forbes - The world's biggest companies, combined, they show a 10% gain in sales, 32% in profits, 10% in assets and 17% in market capitalization over last year. This year's list has 173 new companies - Here they are sorted and listed in several ways.
Posted on 07-12 to categories: Marketing | Noteworthy News
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China Surpasses US in Internet Use
From Forbes - Chinese Internet users spend nearly two billion hours online each week, while the U.S. audience logs on for 129 million hours per week. China has an estimated 200 million active internet users vs the US's 154 million, and China users are increasing by 18% per year.
Posted on 07-11 to categories: Marketing | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
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5 Growth Tips for Women in Business
From CNNMoney.com - Here are five great resources that offer advice and contacts for women entrepreneurs.
Posted on 07-10 to categories: Sales
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Internet has 80,655,992 websites
According to Netcraft's most recent web server survey, the amount of hostnames on the Internet has doubled within the past three years. At the end of March, Netcraft said it identified a total of 80,655,992 websites!
Posted on 07-08 to categories: Your Technology