Executive Edge Newsletter: 9/1/06 to 9/30/06

Here are just a few exciting resources to help you as an executive and professional stay sharp with 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 your resources that can help others!

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1. WVNewsline.com Pre-Launch Announcement
   Our most exciting announcement this issue - we've been working the past three months to create WV's most comprehensive news headline aggregation site. We're launching this nationally in all 50 states - beginning right here in our home state of West Virginia!
   
   The website puts all the headline links from most every WV news source on one page. This saves you time each day by helping you quickly find the news you want to read.
   
   WVNewsline.com automatically aggregates headlines and links to every news article published online in West Virginia. The site is currently tracking over 30 news sources and updating hourly. 10-20 additional news sections are coming soon!
   
   Please take a quick moment to visit the site and see if it might be a useful tool for your own daily news experience. And most of all, please let us know what you think and how we can improve it and make it even better!
    
   Posted on 09-20 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your People | Your Process | Your Technology | WV Business Events | WV Business News | Premier Press | Noteworthy News | Personal Interest
    
2. Fox's '24' Season Six Preview Video
   Here is something fun and exciting to share - with millions of fans waiting... Jack is Back! Here is the newest preview FOX released just yesterday for this upcoming 6th season of 24! Enjoy!
   Posted on 09-18 to categories: Personal Interest
    
3. How to Break the 80/20 Rule in Sales
   From Forbes - Everybody in Lake Wobegone may be above average, but that doesn't hold true in most sales departments, where, as the old saying goes, 20% of a sales force tends to land roughly 80% of the business. After three decades in sales (as both foot soldier and business owner), I can vouch for the cliche. But that doesn't mean I like or accept it--and nor should entrepreneurs who want to sell more stuff.
   Posted on 09-16 to categories: Sales | Your Process
    
4. A business model Venture Capitalists love
   From Business 2.0 Magazine - Once upon a time, in the bad old days of business, giving away a product without charge was unheard of. Sure, Estee Lauder (Charts) gave samples to celebrities and Gillette sold its razors cheap and made money on the blades. But free didn't become a serious option until the Internet gave us low-cost online distribution. Adobe (Charts) did it with its PDF Reader in 1994, Macromedia with its Shockwave Player in 1995. Both became the industry standard, and those companies were able to make money by selling the products' authoring software.
   Posted on 09-14 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Your Process
    
5. 25 Rules to Grow Rich By
   CNN Money has a really interesting new list up that offers 25 rules for making the right financial decisions. It's a good read, and one that may prove helpful to anyone lacking confidence in their financial decision making.
   Posted on 09-12 to categories: Noteworthy News | Personal Interest
    
6. Entrepreneurial Nature 'Innate' Study Says
   From TechWeb - Risk taking could be the key to successful entrepreneurship, according to a study released Friday by Northeastern University's School of Technological Entrepreneurship.
   Posted on 09-10 to categories: Noteworthy News | Personal Interest
    
7. Work.com - 1,000+ How-to-Guides for YOUR Business
   From SmallBizTechnology - When you search on Google for a topic you are overwhelmed with a list of search engine results. If you are a business, especially a small business looking for answers to a specific question, you simply don't have the time to wade through all of these results looking for a specific solution. With work.com, you can get the answer you need quickly.
   Posted on 09-04 to categories: Your Process | Your Technology | Noteworthy News
    
8. Secrets of the self-made
   From Forbes - Fourteen self-made members of the vaunted Forbes 400 shared candid, contrarian and even comedic answers to 20 thoughtful questions--ranging from what they eat for breakfast and how they pray to the importance (or lack thereof) of getting an M.B.A. and what advice they would give aspiring entrepreneurs.
   Posted on 09-03 to categories: Your People | Noteworthy News | Personal Interest
    
9. The 18 mistakes that kill startups
   From paulgraham.com via digg - In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed-- if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed-- and that's too big a question to answer on the fly.
   Posted on 09-02 to categories: Your People | Your Process | Personal Interest
    
10. Google to grab huge share of online ad dollars
    From CNNmoney - Google is projected to pocket a full quarter of US online advertising market in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday. The online ad giant is projected to take home $4 billion of the expected $16 billion US market, according to eMarketer, an online marketing research company.
    Posted on 09-01 to categories: Sales | Noteworthy News