Articles

I spend a lot of time doing research on the web, both specifically to find new ideas and information for my clients and generally to improve by knowledge on all things related to small business. Many of the articles I find interesting are bookmarked on Diigo, and the most interesting of those are also added to a list that can be found here. The articles I’ve most recently added to that list are shown below.



  • Three Types of People to Fire Immediately
  • Seth's Blog: How to get a job with a small company
  • Rands In Repose: Bored People Quit
  • Rethinking how we 'conference'
  • 12 of the Best About Us Pages on the Internet
  • Seth's Blog: What's the use case?
  • 4 factors for webpreneurs
  • Best Presentations of the Decade
  • Sole Proprietors Struggle to Generate New Business
  • Seth's Blog: Better than nothing (is harder than you think)
  • The Top Idea in Your Mind
  • 11 new ways to be a better boss
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People
  • 6 Ways to Keep Your Rising Stars on Track
  • How to Fix a Toxic Workplace
  • Does Top-notch Employee Talent Transfer to Other Jobs?
  • Why Controlling Bosses Have Unproductive Employees
  • Do you make these five critical mistakes in business?
  • How great leaders inspire action
  • Why Businesses Don't Experiment

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  • Three Types of People to Fire Immediately -

    "These people—and we going to talk about three specific types in a minute—passive-aggressively block innovation from happening and will suck the energy out of any organization. When confronted with any of the following three people—and you have found it impossible to change their ways, say goodbye."

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  • Seth's Blog: How to get a job with a small company -

    "All the growth (and your best chance to get hired) is from companies you’ve probably never heard of. And when the hirer is also the owner, the rules are very different."

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  • Rands In Repose: Bored People Quit -

    "There are many reasons other than boredom that someone will quit. Your company might suck or be headed towards suck. This person might randomly get an offer that fulfills their life’s dream. There is a bevy of unpredictable reasons that someone will leave, but boredom is an aspect of their daily professional life you can not only easily assess, but also fix. More importantly, boredom is not initially catastrophic. Boredom shows up quietly and appears to pose no immediate threat. This makes it both easy to address and easy to ignore."

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  • Rethinking how we 'conference' -

    "Most conferences are put together according to formulas designed decades ago, in an era before blackberries and information overwhelm, with scant attention paid to how the brain digests new ideas. However with a few tweaks, conferences could be a lot more fun and useful for everyone."

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  • 12 of the Best About Us Pages on the Internet -

    "In this post I am going to show you what I consider to be 12 of the best About Us pages on the internet. I’m going to go through them all, one by one, and show you what makes them so good. "

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  • Seth's Blog: What's the use case? -

    Too often, we're in such a hurry to show off what we'd like to build we forget to sell the notion of what we built it for.

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    • Too often, we're in such a hurry to show off what we'd like to build we forget to sell the notion of what we built it for.

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  • 4 factors for webpreneurs -

    "The vast majority of web startups fail because they don’t find enough customers, at the right price and in enough time before they run out of cash. If we spend as much time on marketing your startup as you do on writing and shipping your code, and we just might beat the odds."

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  • Sole Proprietors Struggle to Generate New Business -

    "More than a third of sole proprietors say their greatest challenge is finding the time and resources to generate new business, according to a new survey. While more than half of respondents said that hiring an additional employee would allow them to focus more on growing their business and generating new revenue, 69% cannot add any staff due to budget constraints."

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  • Seth's Blog: Better than nothing (is harder than you think) -

    "Most of the time, particulary in b2b and luxury sales, the competition is nothing. "I will buy this treat or I will buy nothing, because I don't really need anything." "I will buy your consulting services, or I'll continue doing what I'm doing now on that front, which is nothing.""

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