Three (3) Minutes That IGNITE Your Business

Take Three Minutes to IGNITE Your Business

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing  an article, '3 Minutes That IGNITES Your Business', with you from Ingunn Aursnes, the founder of Quantum Leaps Coaching.  Ingunn's passion and deep desire is to use all her knowledge and experience to help SoulRICH™ entrepreneurs Turn Their Passion Into Prosperity - and create wildly successful businesses. She has 12 years of management experience in large, multinational companies focusing on business development, brand building and innovation.

In 2004 she followed her passion and took a leap of faith starting her own business. Ingunn bring a unique combination of broad business experience, spiritual awareness and a strong entrepreneurial spirit to her clients. She is a strong believer in the power of “spirit & systems”, and through her result oriented systems, structures and proven programs she has developed strong success paths to support her clients in achieving their own high, passionate goals.

This Works!

IT WORKS

Hello, Everyone! The following e-book (embedded below) is one I learned about via an e-mail I received, approximately two weeks ago.  When I read it, I believed you may enjoy reading it, too!  It's available elsewhere, however I located this free version on Scribd, to share with you (I'm not familiar with the Gann Study Group beyond the brief article I read about them, nor their beliefs.  My goal is to share this 8-page e-book, itself, with you rather than anything Gann and the study group believes.).  I am very grateful that it is available and shareable via Scribd!

Some of the "stand-out" statements of this e-book are:

"If you KNOW what you WANT you can HAVE IT."

"They are not aware of a power so near that it is overlooked;
so simple in operation that it is difficult to conceive;
and so sure in results that it is not made use of consciously,
or recognized as the cause of failure or success."

New Adobe CS5.5 Deskstop Subscriptions: Software On An As-Needed Basis

An Exceptionally Good, Powerful Software Suite Now More Accessible Than Ever Before for Small Businesses and Freelancers

Adobe CS5.5 Student
and Teacher Editions.
Save BIG!

Hello, Everyone! Adobe has launched a new product: Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 and the addition of NEW Adobe Desktop Subscriptions which are ideal for:

• Freelancers or owners of small businesses 
• Anyone who needs the flexibility of software on an as-needed basis

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Subscriptions are available worldwide (excludes volume license TLP orders and Education store orders)! These new products became available for pre-order on April 12, 2011 and they include free shipping!



What Are CS5.5 Desktop Subscription Editions?

Subscription editions of Creative Suite software are just like regular Creative Suite products -- they are installed on your computer and provide all the same features and functionality. In the video below, Yashodhan Gokhale, CS Group Product Manager, gives us excellent details about the CS5.5 Subscription Editions.

What Can You and I Do With Creative Suite 5.5 (CS5.5)?

3 Ways To Keep Your Best Employees Happy In the Workplace

Employee Management
for Small Business

Awarding Your Employees

Hello, Everyone! Today's It's Your Biz video with, Ivy Hartman, shares three tips on how small business owners with employees can keep their best and current employees happy in their workplace. The goal is to keep the best employees happy to be working at your company, long-term.

The Essential
HR Handbook

APIs, Facebook Pages, Social Media Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Delivery Happiness:
A Path to Profits,
Passion, and Purpose

Top Marketing Tips, Social Media Best Practices, APIs and Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing content that is loaded with beneficial tips that we, as entrepreneurs, can utilize right now from Mari Smith of Social Media Examiner TV, Daisy Whitney of The New Media Minute, Carine Carmy of MarketspaceNext and Bambi Francisco Roizen of Vator, Inc.  You'll see:

• 'Top Marketing Tips for Updated Facebook Pages' with Mari Smith (Video)
• 'Social Media Best Practices for Brands' with Daisy Whitney (Video)
• 'Collaborating by Connecting Websites - How an API can Help Companies Market Themselves and Reach New Customers' by Carine Carmy (Article)
• '10 Lessons for Entrepreneurs Going Into 2011' by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 30, 2010 (Article)

Specifially,

• Mari Smith shares how to get the most value out of our Facebook Pages, now that Facebook has upgraded them.  Mari gives new Facebook marketing tips, as well.
• Daisy Whitney shares three golden rules we should keep in mind for long-term social media success, in 'Social Media Best Practices'.
• Carine Carmy shares how the Application Programming Interface (API) technology is being used by companies for marketing and reaching new customers.
• Bambi Francisco Roizen shares "Lessons Learned" videos of high-profile entrepreneurs such as Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Elon Musk of Tesla Motor, Dick Costolo of Twitter, and Mark Pincus of Zynga.

A Great Goal: Learning, Implementing the 'Win-Win-Win' Knowledge and Enjoying the Success!

Business Advertising with Twitter: How To, Step by Step

99 Ways To Make
Money Using Twitter

How Twitter Sells Itself to Advertisers

Hello, Everyone!  I'm a Tweeter and many of you are Tweeters too. Therefore, you are familiar with Twitter already. As a Twitter user you are aware of the benefits of using this service.  Some people use Twitter to stay in contact with family and friends, to make new friends that share common interests and/or to promote their business(es).  You may be among those using Twitter for business promotion, which is great.  If you aren't, you may find it quite beneficial to do so.  If you'd like to do so, the following video is a very helpful, concise how-to guide from Twitter of how to use Twitter as a source of paid-for advertising utilizing 'Promoted Accounts' and 'Promoted Tweets'.  Also, you may find '99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter' a very helpful and concise resource, as well.  I wish you, 'prosperous Tweeting!'

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Tools for Entrepreneurs: Super-fast, Eco-friendly Memjets

Memjet Office Printer
Image courtesy of Memjet

Efficient, Eco-friendly, Fast Memjet Printing

Hello, Everyone! This post features an amazing, new, high-speed color printing technology called 'Memjet' that will make printing far more efficient and less costly. Also, these devices are more eco-friendly than printers of the past. In the first video, while at TechWeb TV Fritz Nelson, Editorial Director at Information Week, discusses Memjet technology with Bill McGlynn, President of Memjet and we get more details about it. The second video features an inkjet printer versus a Memjet printer. These printers will be available, globally, this year. Entrepreneurs, it looks like this printing technology will be a total asset for us!

In addition to these video, you may check out more Memjet demos/demonstrations at MemjetPrinting on YouTube.

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Building Your Fortune in 2011? Goal Trackers Can Help

Business Building Teleseminars

Track Your Goals and Achieve More

Hello, Everyone! In today's feature, Than Merrill, Fortune Builders, Inc. shares details and steps he's used to achieve business goals, fitness goals and other personal goals consistently. Merrill specifies simple and easy things you and I can do to get more things done in our businesses. Also, he's shared the Excel and PDF documents (tools) he uses to help himself stay on track in achieving his goals.


Than Merrill's Goal Tracking Tools

• Weekly Goals - Blank.xls 
• Monthly Fitness Goals - Filled.xls
• Monthly Fitness Goals - Blank.pdf
• Weekly Business Goals - Blank.pdf
• Daily Implementation Goals - Blank.pdf

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Relentless Trial and Error - The Distinguishing Characteristic of Great Entrepreneurs

by Frans Johansson

 Want to Be a Great Entrepreneur? Welcome Relentless Trial & Error Where Needed.

Hello, Everyone! This video features a high-energy talk by Frans Johansson, an entrepreneur, hedge fund managing director and author. In this talk Johansson "illustrates how relentless trial-and-error – the process of coming up with an idea, executing it on a small scale, and then refining it – is the distinguishing characteristic of the greatest entrepreneurs, scientists and artists. This is so because human beings often aren't very good at predicting which of their ideas are going to be a success. Therefore, almost every major breakthrough or innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided attempts. For such experiences, Johansson reminds us, quoting Churchill, "If you're going through hell, keep going." In other words, if you're going through a diffuculty keep working to get out of the difficulty; do not stay in the difficulty.


More About Frans Johansson
Frans Johansson is an entrepreneur and thought leader. Also, he is a consultant and managing director for a hedge fund. Johansson previously co-founded and managed two companies: a medical device company operating out of Baltimore, Maryland and Stockholm, Sweden, and a Boston-based software company. Additionally, Johansson is a successful author and has written on a variety of topics, including business management, healthcare, sport fishing, and how to save our oceans. His best-selling book, 'The Medici Effect', has been translated into 17 languages and was named "One of the Ten Best Business Books of 2004" by Amazon.com. ~ The 99%

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A New Way to Publish Web Content: Microsoft Montage

Publishing Content with Montage

Hello, Everyone! Microsoft Montage provides an easy way to aggregate content people find on the web, such as tweets, images, and articles, into a web page. The resulting embeddable web page 'lives' on the Montage site.

In the video, Fritz Nelson, VP, Editorial Director, InformationWeek and Matt McLauren, Director of User Experience, FuseLab explain and demonstrate how easy Montage is to use!

Also, you can view the Montage Demo for even more information.  Here's a Montage I created on the topic 'small business technology' for you to see 'live'. I created this one without doing any coding so I could discover how easy it would be to create by those of you that do NOT code.  It's very easy and quick to use. It took only moments to create! Later, just for the fun of it, I created another one featuring peonies, which are one of my favorite flowers. This one took a few more minutes to create than the first because I searched for content to add with specific peony sub-topics such as 'peony wallpaper', 'peony perfume' and 'peony candles'. I think the resulting Montage is beautiful with all the peony items (of course, I would)!

I think you all will enjoy using Montage. It looks like the possibilities for Montage are vast!

Post Update 1/30/2011:

Montage is so delightful to 'create' with that I made a few more: Merlin, Chateau Vaux le Vicomte, and F-14.  Enjoy!

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