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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #38

by Donald McMichael
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pic­ture: Flickr.com Com­mons As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase our busi­ness devel­op­ment skills, enhance our level of busi­ness model inno­va­tion, and ulti­mately the qual­ity of our pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships. While I never going into depth about the finds, I encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.  U […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #22

by Donald McMichael
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  While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.   Reverse Engi­neer­ing Facebook’s Busi­ness Model with Ball­park Fig­ures Every­one has com­mented on the $50 Bil­lion val­u­a­tion placed on Face­book by the Goldman-Sachs deal. Well InnovatioAfrica.com has weighed-in, the twist. It used the Business […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #21

by Donald McMichael
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cap­tion: The Amphicar was a Ger­man vehi­cle man­u­fac­tured 1960–1968. photo from Flickr.com ‘The Com­mons”   While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. Five Strate­gies for Busi­ness Growth in a World of Cus­tomer Net­works If any­one should know some­thing about which busi­ness strategies […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post – October 9th

by Donald McMichael
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Photo by داود   Enjoy and please let me know what you think. Strat­egy is Not a To Do List Steve Blank gives us a gen­tile reminder — OK, more like a kick in the ____ — that we need to under­stand why we are doing the things that we are doing. Quite sim­ply, strat­egy is not […]

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Media Reforestation — the ‘un’ business model

by Donald McMichael
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When you think about media busi­ness mod­els the last thing that would come into your mind is the desired out­come being unas­signed, unknown, and just plain old out in the wind. But this exactly what Steve Ruble believes will hap­pen; media weav­ing an even tighter con­nec­tion between those ini­ti­at­ing the story and those who are […]

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New Publishing Financial Model; Pull Out The Old Number 2s

by Donald McMichael
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We got it, the print news busi­ness model of yore is gone. Prop­er­ties that can deliver more tar­geted results at a lower expense with quicker turn times have a way of pre­vail­ing. Now, Face­book is pil­ing on… but wait it is also the key to a model that can save tra­di­tional pub­lish­ing enti­ties? Look out […]

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The Future of Magazines, Not… well Maybe.

by Donald McMichael
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This arti­cle ran in was a recent post on the paid­Con­tent site. It takes a high level look at the pro­duc­tion and expense impli­ca­tions (busi­ness mod­els) asso­ci­ated with re-imaging mag­a­zines for the soon to be released iPad. Makes you won­der if spe­cific pub­li­ca­tions can gain a com­par­a­tive advan­tage if they are will­ing to hit the […]

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