photo by piesgardiner This content from: Donald McMichael I decided to initiate a week blog post routine that will highlight what I believe to be the 5 most interesting blog posts of the week. The area of focus will be the business and strategy arena while the subject matters will be
7 Secrets of Running a Wildly Successful Negotiation
Negotiations fail, stall or breakdown for various reasons. Don’t let these seven high frequency negotiation killers strike down your strategic alliance opportunity, stall your long range planning, or budgeting process. The good news is that just like most aspects of business, particularly if it’s
6 Best Business Development Pillars
Business Manifesto Yesterday’s conventions don’t mesh with our today. CLIENT NOURISHMENT is too important to be served by a commodity One size fits none. Don’t force your market to adapt to you. Develop a solution, message, and system that fits their need, situation, and decision-making
Every Company Is a Media Company
This past week the 2010 New Media Academic Summit was held at NYU. One of the most interesting panel discussions covered the new models for media brands. Or more correctly, how every company - and person - can be a media brand and what it means for existing media, advertising, and product/service
New Business Model: Killing Papers Once And For All
“The Washington Times Tries to Reinvent Itself," New York Times Jan. 27, 1992 via Bill on Capitol Hill ...well at least as they had been know. Before, “publishing” meant printing information on sheets of paper. The Internet, in particular Google and social networking sites, disrupted this
Business Model: The Walled Garden of Ads… Apps
Beet.TV caught up with Marc Ruxin, Chief Innovation Officer of Universal McCann, to get the inside scoop on Madison Avenue's take on the current state of digital advertising. It should come as no surprise to anyone that both advertisers and their creative houses are on a quest to deliver messages
How Do You Achieve Better Strategic Planning Results?
picture by Eliya The following is a guest post by Martin Harshberger President of Measurable Results LLC, and Bottom Line Coach. I think strategic plans have gotten a bad rap. If you believe the research most companies don't even have one even though it is said that over 75% of businesses
A Business Innovation Practice That Attracts Success
The art of innovation involves asking questions. Lots of them. Here is a list of ten of the right questions to ask as you endeavor to make your business model better. If you ask these questions as part of your routine, you will demonstrate that your clients, partners, and champions matter. What
Strategic Value: What Do You Bring To The Table?
A few months ago I started using the tagline ‘solves the tough[est] problems’. The use of a branding tagline is not the story. Companies have been at this for centuries and people have earned them since the beginning of time... think John the Great. What interested me during the development and