Four easy steps to apply in potential Small Business

Work.com brings a “Guide to start a Gardening Business”, to help you get started in turning your hobby into a successful gardening business, but we can apply in almost every new project.

 In their own words: “By learning about the many local, regional and national resources available , you can increase both knowledge and profit, and build a strong client base in your local community.”

They give four outstanding action steps that I summarize bellow:

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Improving our thinking process

Pat Croce, make us remember that in this new world full of competition, our best weapons are fresh ideas that can distinguish our products or services.

But yes, some times we can face a mental blank at our drawing board and then take us to the right moment to explore new ways to come up with creative thoughts.

Because thought its true, by learning their brainstorming patterns, we can demystify our creative thought processes and generate better ideas with more regularity; it’s also true that activities as daydream considered by many as a waste of time are actually invaluable pieces of the creativity machine.

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How to introduce 2.0 tools in your company

Are you thinking in introducing a 2.0 service in your company? Blogs, wikis, social nets … Is undoubtedly a complicated world in which some advices will not come badly. In that way, Dion Hinchcliffe offers nine ideas for those chiefs who consider putting their company in the Web 2.0 world.

The most important thing, affirms Hinchcliffe, is to assure the facility of use. That anyone is capable of using the new tool without a workshop. Without forgetting that we must explain the users why it has introduced and how it is going to do easiest their life.

As for the application control, we must support ourselves in a balance: Not to make it empty and clean, hoping the workers to contribute the whole content, or to exaggerate the fear of losing control on what the users do with our tool. Instead of censuring, intervene only if it is indispensable.

We neither must forget to include in our wiki or our social net an effective search service. This way, when we upload the company contents that the workers should know, they will be able to find them without problems.

But not everything is going to be a technique in this adventure: To have attorneys who really are interested in the project (even if they are external and not habitual ones of the company) and to insure that the tool solves users needs, will be also two essential points.

Source: ZDNet

Windows Vista already has official release date

It will be January 30th, 2007 when the new operative system comes to the consumers hands, after five years of wait.

Joining the also newborn Internet Explorer 7, the new operative system includes improvements as a more powerful search of files system, the new version of Windows Media Player, or major quality graphs.

Though the big Microsoft clients will have the package on November 30th, the retail users will have to wait two more months to possess the new version.

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Ten Entrepreneurial Mistakes

Paul Lemberg, bring us the “Ten Entrepreneurial mistakes”, we can usually find in our business path. He makes us remember that when we are novel is hard to avoid certain mistakes, but in his own words: “Many of the following mistakes are hard to avoid even if we are an old hand.”

1. Big Customer Syndrome. Following the new idea of diversifying our customer market, Lember affirms that: If more than 50 percent of your revenues come from any one customer you may be headed for a meltdown.

2. Creating products in a vacuum. After you or your team have a brilliant idea, don’t spend many time implementing it. And if you don’t get a good response, go on to the next idea.

3. Equal partnerships. Can seem fine and fair at a first glance, but as your personal and professional interests diverge, it is a sure recipe for disaster.

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Entrepreneurs, our best weapon

Actually, you can here about entrepreneurship almost everywhere, but to listen that this new culture of creativity has saved capitalism is quite surprising.

Newsweek made us remember than about 30 percent of the U.S labor force, run their own businesses and almost half of the university graduates start their own business during their careers.

Even most important, they confirm that most U.S. job growth and new technology comes from entrepreneurial companies instead of capitalism companies.

In other words, that old and strong capitalism became an entrepreneurial capitalism in order to survive in this changing world.

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Google will sell adds in fifty newspapers

Google will begin to sell advertising in 50 newspapers of the big USA cities, as the company announced yesterday, in diaries like The New York Times, The Washington Post and others newspapers like Gannet and McClatchy. Up to fifty newspapers and hundred advertisers will take part in this experiment.

And we said experiment because it is a three month long test, as an example of how Google tries to expand beyond the net, including projects of advertising in radio and television.

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Monster allies with MSN to give service in ten European countries

Monster, specializing company in career services has announced an alliance with MSN to provide services in ten European countries.

Just think, this collaboration will allow the employment portal to achieve major visibility of their employment offers across the MSN net, while offering a new service to their subscribers directly from their homepage.

Nowadays Monster’s services are available trough MSN in United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Norway and Sweden, they will extend Denmark in November 2007, and to Holland and Germany in January 2008.

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Weebly Vs. Noovo: The easiest way to create a Web

Few weeks ago I comment at Noovo, about this surprising html web editor, created by a small Korean company as a great application for web sites.

Well then, a lot of time did not happen and already the competition arose: Weebly. I am not going to comment about the System in deed, since it has many deficiencies if we compare it with others (and it’s not beta). Nevertheless, here we have a video that shows us quickly which are the characteristics by creating a web in 3 minutes.

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