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Value is Purple
Most entrepreneurs worth their salt have something interesting to say about why their company matters. In the private sector, they can tell you that their product is cheaper, more efficient, and...
View ArticleYou Don’t Know Your Customers Well Enough, and You Never Will.
No matter who you are and what business you’re in, you don’t know your customers well enough. I can’t overemphasize this. You don’t know your customers well enough. What makes matters worse is, your...
View ArticleCow Spotting: A Case Study
In Sunday’s post, I mentioned that being a Purple Cow is about delivering exceptional value to your customers that exceeds their wildest expectations. It’s also about conveying that value through the...
View ArticleTop Five Tips for Getting Your Startup Through Tough Times
Times are certainly tough for startups these days, but there are a few things you can do help your business brave the storm. Here’s The Upwardly Mobile‘s list of the top five. Network – When your...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Firm’s Perspective?
Examples of firms retreating further into their niche seem to increase with every day of the recession. Most companies will realize too late, however, that they’ve lost the opportunity to expand their...
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Don’t Insult Your Customers, Stupid.
This is an advertisement I saw on CNN.com today. It reads, “Obama is the New President! $133,000 Mortgage for Under $679/Month!” I’m not one for pointing out the obvious, but those two sentences have...
View ArticleDo What Works
Seth Godin wrote a great little post last Friday on the differences between fitting in and standing out. Although Seth doesn’t state it explicitly, the differences in mind set of those who seek to fit...
View ArticleHomework: It’s Not Just for School Children
It may seem basic to many of us, but it always surprises me how few people actually do their homework before going into a meeting, let alone launching a product or starting a business. Whether you’re...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Difficult People in Power
Whether you’re a low-level analyst or a C-Suite executive, everyone has a boss. Even CEO’s have to answer to the board and shareholders, and miscommunication and differing expectations can make...
View ArticlePlanning… It’s All in Your Head
I travel every week, work an average of twelve hours per day, and don’t get nearly enough sleep. Chances are that I remember that I need to call a friend when I’m supposed to be working on a proposal,...
View ArticleAn Ounce of Perspective: How and Why to Complete a Thorough Weekly Review
I fell in love with Getting Things Done about two and a half years ago. I was planning for an extended, six-month stay abroad in Germany, and I had too much to do and too little time to do it. The...
View Article51 Virtual Assistant Tasks to Save You Time and Money
We talk about virtual assistants fairly frequently at The Upwardly Mobile. But since it’s been a while, and since it’s more important now than ever to save time and money, here are 50 tasks you can...
View ArticleThe Power of If
What would happen if employees pressed managers for results as often as managers required them from employees? What would happen if you defined success as creating solutions, rather than completing...
View ArticleEntrepreneur’s Toolkit: Learning and Development
The nature of bootstrapping requires every entrepreneur to fill multiple roles at once. Often, one or more of these roles is outside of the entrepreneur’s previous experience and comfort zone. Whether...
View ArticleWhy GTD Works, and What to Do When It Fails
Today I received an email from a friend who had been flirting with the concepts of Getting Things Done for quite a while. He had followed Lifehacker off and on, read a few articles elsewhere, and even...
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