Increase Conversions - Ways to Skyrocket Your Online Sales
http://www.businesszone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=179779&d=1095&h=1097&f=1096
http://www.socialedge.org/
http://www.younoodle.com
http://www.kiva.org
http://www.virginmoneyus.com/
http://www.google.org/smes.html
http://www.forbes.com/cionetwork/
Video on Venture Capital
Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company
"Help the customer buy" vs "Pitch to people who don't want to be sold to"
Laura: "Marketers need to understand, attract, and engage an audience. It takes multiple touches to figure out when Sales should connect."
FOCUS on your intentions for your core business! Write affirmations, do what works for you to bring your subconscious and conscious mind together to bring about your heart's desire.
You thought Amazon.com was a bookstore. No, wait, it's a retailer, the Wal-Mart of the Web. It's a bricks-and-mortar play, with superefficient real-world warehouses. No, it's a software maker whose Web services underpin the likes of Twitter and SmugMug. Oh, never mind — now it's all about the Kindle, which is clearly the iPod of the book world!
By shifting Amazon.com's focus, Bezos gets Wall Street to think about Amazon.com's starry potential rather than the grinding reality of its workaday business, which is a low-margin, highly competitive retail business. Bezos would never get on the Daily Show to talk about Amazon's latest discount electronics offers. That's the real joke here. And that's why Bezos is really laughing.
