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September 19, 2007 - Ad Agencies, Dialing for Donuts, Napping at Work!
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BizBits Archive
August 6, 2007 - Packaging Makeover, Padding Your Roledex, Risky Business
Welcome to the latest edition of BizBits from DirectoryM! In this week's edition, we cover topics ranging from product packaging to finding ways on how to pad your Rolodex. Enjoy!!
July 30, 2007 - Cure Cancer, Going Wireless, Entrepreneuial Generation
Welcome to the latest edition of BizBits from DirectoryM! In this week's edition, we cover topics ranging from CEOs curing cancer to finding ways to keep your job interesting. In "Can CEOs cure Cancer?", Big Pharma execs may not know more about the disease than the rest of us, but a group of them are using their power to fight it. Hundreds of cities are itching to build wireless networks, often with noble goals in mind. They're finding it's harder than it looks. Learn why in "Fast Cities Struggle to Go Wireless." In "A New Way to Keep Your Job Interesting" learn how job exchange programs increase productivity, improve business cultures, and help everyone learn. Companies spent an estimated $8 billion to get their links on Google and other search engines last year - often with limited results, "Why is Organic Search Back in Style?" We end with "The Most Entrepreneurial Generation Ever", new technologies, a proliferation of resources, and disenchantment with the corporate world has produced a truly entrepreneurial generation. Enjoy!!
July 18, 2007 - Networking, Robots and Energy Problems
Welcome to the latest edition of BizBits from DirectoryM! In this week's edition, we cover topics ranging from networking to robots taking over organizations. In "Networking Never Takes a Holiday", get an expert's tips on how you can continue to build relationships with powerful people even when they're out of the office. Sometimes opportunity knocks with a pink slip in hand. In "You're Fired!!! Now What?" learn about some reluctant entrepreneurs who launched successful ventures only after losing their day jobs. Who knew getting fired could be a great career move? Staples discovers that a team of super retrievers in day-glo orange can keep a warehouse humming in "Robots Taking Over Staples". An alternative to oil? Check. Completely green? Check. Economical? Check. So why has the entrepreneur with $25 million on the line been sued, pilloried, and lampooned learn all about it in "Jim Gordon Has An Answer To Our Energy Problems?" We end with "The Mommy Track Debate" where Leslie Bennetts, Author, The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?; contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and Vivian Steir Rabin, Vice president of search firm Salovey & Associates; coauthor, Back on the Career Track, hash out the great mommy track debate. Enjoy!!!
July 9, 2007 - Optimizing Trade Shows, Greatest Brand Makeover of All Time
Welcome to the latest edition of BizBits from DirectoryM! In this week's edition, we cover topics ranging from optimizing trade shows to what may be the greatest brand makeover of all time. In "Avoiding Trade Show Faux Pas", you will learn how to optimize your trade show investment. Trade shows have seen a resurgence of interest and traffic but you have to work in advance to make sure you get the right return on your effort. Interested in selling your business? "Street Smarts: The Offer, Part Nine" provides valuable advice and perspective from a business owner that has done it. In the untold story of how an epic 'loser' engineered what may be the greatest brand makeover of our time, we take a good look at Al Gore's $100 Million makeover. Thirty years ago, bottled water barely existed as a business in the United States. Last year, we spent more on bottled water than we spent on iPods or movie tickets--$15 billion. It will be $16 billion this year. "Message in the Bottle" provides the latest on this growing industry. We end with "The World's Most Exciting Places To Work, Live, And Play" and look at 30 exciting urban centers you may want to transplant yourself and your business. Enjoy!!
June 29, 2007 - Workforce Motivation, Positive Thinking, and Sun Microsystems
Greetings from DirectoryM. In this week's installment of BizBits, we decided to give you a little break from all the iPhone coverage. We will go over ways on how to keep your young workforce motivated, look at how positive energy can bring business success, explore an outdoor clothing company that is changing the face of retail, and talk about the resurgence of Sun Microsystems (the Google of an earlier era). Enjoy!!
May 30, 2007 - BizBits Goes Back to School and Looks at iPhone, Disney and Apple-ization
In this week's installment of BizBits, we go back to school. We are going to work on our number skills discussing the sales prospects for Apple's iPhone, take a field trip to Disney to look at their "Apple-ization" (and we thought it was magic), for recess take a look at what gadgets you must have, work on learning our right from left by looking at right education for left brainers, and wrap it up with the most profiled resignations of the year (the top execs to lose their milk money over the past year).
May 16, 2007 - Keep it real, talking about authenticity
We keep it real, talking about authenticity; where it started, how you can use it to develop your firm's identity, and once established how to defend it. In addition we stop off for a bite at "Whataburger" to examine their "secret sauce", and wash it all down with a couple of cups of the world's best coffee.
May 7, 2007 - Energy Prices, Google and The SBA - Oh My!!!
A look at rising energy prices, Google and the Small Business Administration. In Addition, organizations that driv their bottom line by finding new ways to tackle old problems.
April 30, 2007 - We Focus on Security
Protect yourself from scam artists that target small businesses, as well as the digital things that go bump in the night and keep your CTO awake.
April 23, 2007 - We Focus on Innovation
This week we focus on innovation, how to drive it within your company, and how others are using it to turn conventional wisdom on its head.
April 18, 2007 - Driving Productivity Through Staffing
This week, from BMW to "The Donald", we show you how careful management of staffing and office environment can increase productivity and innovation, and drive your bottom line. In addition, we look at 22-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and how he spurned Yahoo and Viacom to go it alone.
April 12, 2007 - Discussing Creation Theory ... Company Creation Theory
This week we introduce Snap9, our newest content partner. Snap9 is a leading source of credible, unbiased interest guides. With topics ranging from Renters Insurance to VoIP, it is founded on the premise that no topic is too big or too small. In addition, we have some interesting articles from our friends at Inc. , including a piece on creation ... company creation.
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