Build a Power Grid of Influence

Judy Robinett takes the word “Networking” not only to a new level but re-defining it into a dynamic “power grid” of influence and connections. How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits is an excellent book and one of my best summer reads, so far. Judy is Read More …

Lean Sales Process does not start at Plan or Build

Lean’s culture ties to PDCA or PDSA is exactly what limits Lean’s success in sales and marketing. I may even go out on a limb and say it will limit the success of the The Lean Startup’s Build-Measure-Learn methodology being applied effectively to sales and marketing. The reason is that these theories are based on Read More …

How to build a Sales and Marketing Team

This is a well documented video that was recently posted on the Agile Advice website. It can serve as a refresher or as a starting point on how you should assemble a Lean Sales and Marketing Team. The process that IDEO goes through to innovate a new shopping cart: Could this mantra work on your Read More …

Can we build organizations to foster good ideas?

New ideas come from networks and forming new networks create new ideas! People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. Great Read More …

Top 15 Ways to Build Your Subscriber List

I just switched e-mail providers as of today and felt that Get Response has a lot to offer. Here is an affiliate post that I think you may find interesting on building your subscriber list. Email marketing can be profitable for any business, no matter what kind of product or service you offer. It is Read More …