The below message is a rewording of an IM I sent.
If you can effectively execute you will be successful.
There is plenty of room in the ocean for everybody to swim.
OK, there are sharks.... but the ocean is mostly safe.
More people die walking down the street than from shark attacks.
Thoughts?
Via Twitter
@DanielleMORRILL provided the thoughts below as being important for Startup Weekend success
If you have some thoughts on this, add them in as a comment. Thanks.
The cycle of information. Where it starts, where it leads.
This is not always the process but how it sometimes works. Compelling content creates positive chemical reactions. These reactions can be captured. See below how it all played out.
1. Email from Smart Brief ---> Leads to article on CNNMoney.com: “Garbage mogul makes millions from trash”
2. Search on Twitter for TerraCycle
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=TerraCycle
BTRfeatures: Come listen to the Innovative Business Model: TerraCycle show by Planet Good Radio on BlogTalkRadio LIVE at http://tobtr.com/s/437950
3. Top result from BlogTalkRadio Link leads to…
Planet Good Radio
Show Name: Innovative Business Model: TerraCycle
4. Listen to show…
3.5 Before listening… see an Amazon book link… visit site to see book. Added book to Wish List.
Results/Takeaway:
What are your thoughts?
Information, Insight & Influence
Information:
Insight:
Influence:
You build from information. You analyze it and develop insights. With experience and increasing levels of skill your insight accuracy increases. People with high levels of accuracy earn respect from peers and others. With this respect, skill and accuracy earn you influence.
Uncustomer: Person or organization that has not chosen you and your product or service.
They had the potential to become a customer. They have unmet needs, wants and desires [and ability to pay]. Your offering failed to compel them to buy. You came up short in delivering value.
What are you going to do about all your uncustomers?
You know why I love IM and live chat?
It draws out thoughts and IDEAS and those are the basis for blog posts. Conversation creates thoughts. These thoughts are part analysis and part imagination. It’s analysis because problems are frequent topics of discussions. Imagination is part of it too because some problems require different methods. New problems sometimes require entirely new ways are developing solutions.
Situations and circumstances require thinking. Follow up questions in IM can clarify any misunderstandings. Answers and solutions are not one size fits all. Each problem is different and must be thought of as unique in the thinking and idea phase [where you are listening]. If you think you have seen the problem before it is fully explained, you better listen a little longer and clarify all critical points. Any of these points, if misunderstood may drastically reduce the effectiveness of any proposed solution.
Who is Hiring?
People with money are hiring. Who are these people with money?
We call them customers [or prospects in sales speak].
Find their wants and needs. Serve them. Create a customer. Market to them, then innovate your product or service. Innovation drives prosperity.
Sure looks that way to me.
Read and come to your own conclusions.
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Since the Federal Government has taken a controlling stake [80% ownership] they should talk less and take action on their investment. Talk is cheap. These elected representatives talk like they have no responsibility. They [we] own 80% of the firm. They [Congressional reps] ARE the board of directors. Management works for them.
Board of Directors... tell management how you want things done. This grand standing is dumb. You have power and control. Stop pretending you don’t.
Would taking action hurt your reelection prospects?
Noticed that the number of spam emails Gmail has filtered out is 1981. This is over the past 30 days. It is also a considerable drop from recent numbers. It had peaked above 3000 at some point in the past six months.
What are you seeing regarding spam emails?
What does 5 gallons of pennies look like?
See nearby picture. Never try rolling a full five gallon jug of pennies. The sides are not as strong as the bottom.
It took the better part of two decades to acquire this many pennies. As you can see the jug broke and created a very big mess. Each gallon of pennies is approximately $50 [total was a little more than $250]. The credit union had an industrial coin counter. It probably took less than thirty minutes to count them all.
Goldfish Tea: Royal Oak, MI
This tweetup is currently each Tuesday evening starting between 7 and 8pm.
You can use the #tweetea hashtag to follow along.
Tagged 7 friends to write their own “7 things” post. They are as follows:
The rules are simple. Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post. Simply share seven facts about yourself in the post. Tag seven people at the end of your post and let them know they’ve been tagged.
Just realized that this blog was started a year ago. It came about from Fast Company and how they had a platform for blogging set up. This platform proved not to my liking and it lead me to Blogger.
First blog posted here was “START Theory” from March 2, 2008.
Fast Facts
Do you blog?
If not, why not?
If so, why?
Food is something that is bought on a regular basis by consumers. Each shopping trip is an opportunity to present a mix of products to the consumer.
Target and Walmart have a goal to increase visit frequency per year . Another way of stating this is they want there to be fewer days between visits. It’s a lot easier to close a sale with a customer when they are in your store and already making purchases.
The statement below from the CEO of Target is a good example of what many retailers selling food are trying to do.
Three Points
Frequency is driven by having more items that people frequently purchase. Food and consumer products are excellent examples of items bought frequently. Selling these items at attractive prices gets consumers in the door where higher margin and dollar profit items an be presented to the shopper.
Loyalty is the trust that a retailer earns and maintains with consumers. What is the value proposition and does the retailer consistently deliver on its promise? Retailers that do, build trust and are chosen over competition if their proposition is more compelling than competitors.
Preferred is where there are two or more equally compelling choices and the consumer constantly chooses one retailer over another. There are many different factors that drive being preferred. These factors can shift very rapidly. For a time, style and value pricing was a powerful consumer preference that resonated with shoppers and drove them to Target. At some point, shoppers shifted their preferences to low price. It is in this instance, where the impression of “Every Day Low Prices” drove consumers to shift their buying behavior and choose Walmart.
Takeaway
What will be interesting is to see if there are other preferences that retailers and merchants can deliver a compelling message to consumers. Those that are able to effectively do so will see increasing visit frequency, loyalty and consumer preferences.
What are your thoughts on consumer preferences?
A few words from Harvey Mackay.
Hope you enjoy this short clip.
Think of it as reputation
If a firm has a bad reputation, IE: paying on time, their score drops. People and vendors will stop interacting with such entities. People and organizations with low or zero as a whuffie score are avoided. Higher scores attract people like a magnet.
Results:
Low Scores: Fewer interactions are of lower quality and effectiveness. Interactions are fewer and weaker with lower whuffie scores. When input strength and quality is lower, output quality moves in tandem.
High Scores: More talent with stronger strengths. Firms that make the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for list are probably deluged with applicants when they post job openings. These firms have a strong reputation for respecting and valuing their human capital. People make it all work. These firms understand that as well as their reputation [whuffie].
Measuring?
Not sure if there is yet one method for measuring it. It probably exists, but there is not yet a common standard. This may change in coming years as technology expands and innovation creates new ideas.
*This post is my current opinion. It was created in about 30 minutes while multitasking. Looking forward to expanding my understanding with the release of “The Whuffie Factor” next month [April 21, 2009]
This is a test post from Windows Live Writer. It came as part of the upgrade for Windows Messenger or whatever Microsoft was calling it.
This is the end of the test post.
Companies have long used search-engine marketing to lure online consumers. Now they're looking to draw job hunters the same way, while scaling back on competing media such as job boards and newspapers.
In search-engine marketing, employers bid to place ads next to search results for certain keywords, like "accountant," or "nurse." The ads can be limited to users in specific ZIP codes. Advertisers pay search engines when a user clicks on their ad.
Last March, Baylor Health Care System, a large Dallas-based nonprofit, began purchasing keywords on Google, Yahoo and employment-related search engines SimplyHired.com and Indeed.com. The search-engine ads generated more applicants, at less cost, than the other recruiting methods, says Eileen Bouthillet, director of human resources communications.
In the first six months of the program, Ms. Bouthillet says, the search-engine ads delivered 5,250 applicants, at an average cost of $4. By contrast, Baylor paid an average of $30 for each of the 3,125 applicants who came via job boards, and $750 each for the 215 applicants who replied to a newspaper or magazine ad.
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Are you interested in any of the other books on the list?If the customer indicates they are, the book inventory database can instantly pull all the titles available. This can create an extra sale and save the customer a bit on shipping and handling. This is like cross merchandising categories in the supermarket [EG: Peanut butter and jelly near the bread].
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