Dell VP Bob Pearson Listens to 10,000 Online Conversations Every Day
Note: this has been re-posted from the Inc. 5000 conference blog.
“We’ve finished chapter 1 and we’re just starting,” Dell’s VP Bob Pearson told me, noting that 1.46 billion people are online today but only 1.6 million of them visit Dell’s site daily.
VP BP, as he’s called, is…
read moreThree Things on Jim Collins’ Stop Doing List
Good to Great guru Jim Collins asks “Does everyone here have a To Do list?” Hundreds of Inc. 5000 entrepreneurs are assembled for his main stage presentation. All hands go up. Then he asks: “How many people in this room have a Stop Doing list?” Appreciative murmurs, but few…
read moreCeleb Sighting: 4-Hour Author Tim Ferriss Takes Stairs, Not Escalator
I just spotted Tim Ferriss in gray sweatshirt and jeans running up the stairs at the Inc. 5000 conference here in Washington DC. Meantime, hundreds of suited entrepreneurs, whose companies are being honored at Inc.‘s annual conference, obediently rode the…
Newest Senior Exec Blog: Google’s Sergey Brin Writes About Gene for Parkinson’s Disease
35-year-old Google co-founder Sergey Brin started a blog named Too yesterday. It’s on Blogger, of course. MInimalist design of white type on a black background (which I find hard to read). Too is a play on “two” and on the fact…
Q & A, B, C with POP! Author Sam Horn
Note: this has been re-posted from the Inc. 5000 conference blog.
Why should someone do business with your company? What’s your 30-second “tell and sell”? That’s what author and communications consultant Sam Horn calls it and what she’ll explain, step-by-step, in her presentation Friday Sept. 19 at the…
read morePreview Q & As Now Up on the Inc. 5000 Conference Blog
If you’re interested, I’m liveblogging the annual Inc. 500 (now 5000) conference, which starts here in Washington DC tomorrow. The first few “preview” entries are up here. More to come. I’ll also be Twittering from the conference floor.…
Can It Be True? Lehman Bros. and Employees Apparently Not Using Social Networks
I’m staggered after reading the following in today’s NYTimes Business section: “About 12:30 Monday morning, Lehman sent out a press release announcing its intention to seek bankruptcy protection. Lehman’s 25,000 employees learned of the filing through the media, with no direct communication coming from (CEO Dick) Fuld or other…
read moreHow Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham Developed “The Knack” for Collaborating
Note: this has been re-posted from the Inc. 5000 conference blog.
If you had to pick two faces that are legendary at Inc.‘s annual conference, you could safely choose Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham. Norm is a veteran entrepreneur whose six companies include CitiStorage, a three-time…
read moreIntroduction to Blogging the Inc. 5000 Conference
Nearly 1,500 Inc. 5000 companies will converge on Washington DC this week for the 27th annual Inc. 500/5000 conference. This is a mega event with lots of buzz, plenty of substance and world class networking.
Up until now, the conference has been open only to Inc. 5000 honorees. But…
read moreCorporate Blogs Are Within 2 Years of Mainstream Adoption, According to Gartner
Gartner annually releases a Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Take the hype cycle construct with a grain of salt, if you will. But I love the chart. The 2008 hype cycle report illustrates that corporate blogging is now on the upward slope of “enlightenment” heading towards…
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Meet Me in NYC Oct. 22, 2008 and We’ll Go to Seth Godin’s Book Launch Together
I’ll admit it. I’m a Seth Godin fan, maybe even a groupie. His approach to marketing is so clever. He tells us something quietly provocative, something remarkable, with value to us. We tell our friends or followers. They tell theirs.
He’s…
read moreThe Contrarian Effect Emphasizes Selling By *Not Selling*
The key message in Michael Port and Elizabeth Marshall‘s nifty new book, The Contrarian Effect, is one that resonates strongly with me: sell… by not selling. Drop the cold calls, the scripts, the spin. Instead: listen, be honest, be respectful,…
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Blog Critiquing at SearchCampPhilly
Was delighted to participate in SearchCamp Philly, part of PodCamp Philly, over the weekend. It was a perfect way to spend a rainy, stormy Saturday as Hurricane Hannah swept up the East Coast. Took the train up…
Blogging 101
Originally posted on Sept. 13, 2005. Updated: Feb. 18, 2009
People are still asking where to go for a “blogging 101.” That question momentarily stumps me. There’s so much information out there it’s hard…
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