by Debbie Weil | Sep 19, 2008 | Events, Social Media, Uncategorized
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...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 19, 2008 | Books, Events, Uncategorized
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?”...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 19, 2008 | Events, Social Media, Uncategorized
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...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 19, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, Uncategorized
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 that the blog is about...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 17, 2008 | ROI, Uncategorized
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...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 17, 2008 | Events, Social Media, Uncategorized
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....
