november 2007

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In the table we also include each stock's performance from the 10/9 market top to the close on 10/26. Of the list of best performers, just 4 of the best performing stocks over the past two days were up from 10/9 to Monday's close -- THC, ISRG, WFR and SPW

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An old saying states "There is always a bull market someplace"—either in individual sectors or industries. Does this adage hold true during recessionary periods? Yes, but not for many. S&P introduced its Global Industry Classification System (GICS) in 1

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Coming up with ideas is a skill, actually, something that’s become easier with practice. And I don’t have one single method of coming up with great ideas for articles, except this one:

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Upload and design a FAVICON that lets your bookmark appear personalized.

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Have you ever looked at super creative or innovative people, and felt they are special beings blessed with gifts? Have you felt that you are not as fortunate? I used to feel this way. I have since learned that creativity is more about psychology than inte

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Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? As users of Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites pile up hundreds, even thousands, of "friends," several commentators and news articles have cautioned that there is a natural limi

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Michael Hyatt makes an excellent case for why books are eventually going to die. I am not going to revisit the Kindle announcement, but I agree with all his points on why the book buying, storing, publishing and selling processes are broken. I wont say books are dead, but the processes are broken.I disagree that Kindle's going to make it happen. I read a lot of blogs and buy a lot of books on Amazon. I read most of my blogs on Google reader (Nothing can beat free). My blackberry and the iPhone do a great job of letting me do that. I dont need the Kindle to help me with that. As before I maintain that Sony Reader and Kindle are going to be DOA because of iPhone. I carry a lot of devices. I dont need another device that I have to charge.

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I wanted to share the graphic that Avinash made with you. As a community manager I see myself in the center as the Voice of the Customer & doing experimentation & testing. So my challenge is to go in both directions:

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The research project was conducted as part of the Online Community Research Network agenda, and was initially released to OCRN members in May.

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I was talking to Sean Murphy yesterday (who I met at the Online Community Unconference) and mentioned to him how difficult it was to write about communities alone, given that I have a wide variety of interests.He made some very good points about the importance of focus. The fact is that over 300 subscribers to this blog are "community related" and about 200+ are friends with various interests.I think I hit upon an idea after talking to him about possibly being a guest blogger on other blogs that focus on topics that interest me but are not related to community. I am going to reach out to a few friends and try that concept out. So topics of Investing, Enterprise Software, Marketing in general would be available from other blogs with a possible "plug" on this blog alone is a concept I am mulling over.Similarly I would offer to have others in areas of their interest talk about community from their perspective on this blog.What do you think? Have you tried that? Does it work.

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online writing techniques can do. They'll help you persuade; to share your ideas and promote your agenda in a way that other people want to hear; to speak without speaking, to customers, would-be clients, or anyone else who should hear what you have to sa

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After publishing more than 2 million words — online and print — we're convinced that King was right. To become a good writer, one must first be a studious reader.

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In the years since, the situation has reversed. With top Silicon Valley venture capital firms on the prowl in China, India, and other parts of Asia, all of them eager to fund the entrepreneurial dreams of young Asians, now it's unusual to find people who

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* Foreign Sector ETFs provide exposure to non-US stocks by sector. They differ from global sector ETFs which cover both US and foreign stocks. * These sector ETFs are generally market-cap weighted, meaning that larger companies have greater repre

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* Primary sector ETFs are the ETFs that give you exposure to an entire US sector, not the sub-sectors and not narrow themes within the sector. For example, a primary sector ETF is "Technology", not "Software" and not "Enterprise Software". * Prim

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Successful countries do share some common features. They all provide some degree of effective property rights protection and contract enforcement, maintain macroeconomic stability, seek to integrate into the world economy, and ensure an appropriate enviro

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Economists expect business owners to choose locations by considering a long list of possible locations and picking the one with maximum net benefits. But this leads to the conclusion, which economists are beginning to challenge, that abandoned neighborhoo

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Part of having a successful website or blog is targeting the right keywords and phrases. This sounds like it would be an easy task, but with endless possible combinations of words and phrases it can be quite difficult to find keywords that will generate t

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Part of having a successful website or blog is targeting the right keywords and phrases. This sounds like it would be an easy task, but with endless possible combinations of words and phrases it can be quite difficult to find keywords that will generate t

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Suppose the writers' strike continues for months to come -- and even beyond that, suppose the actors or the directors also go on strike. In such a scenario, it is hard to see how many companies based on this new model won't be created extremely quickly --

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Betty asked a good question yesterday about managing competitive information online.My name's betty and i recently joined live admins, an online customer service for web based businesses. I am new to this field but after reading your blog, i am wondering if businesses such as liveadmins can create an edge for themselves by 'not tipping the hat' to the competition as you said. it is a competitive world. how do you know what kind of information to share especially since its a service, you hold back the info, you lose your clients. what if you hold back and there is no thunder left to steal? i'd love to know your comments."

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In the past few years, blogs have become a big part of business on the internet. Everything from anthropomorphized cats to celebrity gossip can bring millions of visitors and a steady stream of revenue. It can be hard to figure of where to start with your

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Yale colleagues are in the final stages of launching a business based on this very concept. They have started a company called stickK.com that will allow people to take out a contract on themselves. They pick a price. If they don't lose a certain amount o

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I read through a 94 page McKinsey report on the costs & economics of US Healthcare.Here's a summary.1. 7

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Improving online sales isn't usually a start-over-from-scratch proposition. Here are 65 little tweaks that can make a big difference:

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Marketing Sherpa's 2007 Search marketing survey results

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Webinars can be a very effective tool for moving prospects along in the sales funnel to become warmer leads with which your salespeople can have good conversations. But the content of the webinar and the way you conduct the webinar affect prospect's expe

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In this new report MGI finds that the United States spends approximately $480 billion ($1,600 per capita) more on health care than other OECD countries and that additional spending is not explained by a higher disease burden; the research shows that the U

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New Rules of Cold Calling and Marketing

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I was away in Orlando with the family last week on vacation. Which explains the very light posting. I had some time to think about the Facebook, Myspace and Google (OpenSocial & Social Graph and GPhone) announcements.One thing struck me as odd. Why was there SO much around the Nov 5th time frame. Its certainly slow news month.Then I learned that Facebook actually " pre-announced" that it would preview its new social ads and platform a few weeks ago. Google had enough time to respond and attempt to one-up them.Actually thanks to Facebook, Google had over 3 weeks to plan and execute their announcements so they could "steal the thunder".I am positive Google was working on the Gphone and OpenSocial announcements long before they got to know about the Facebook announcement, but it begs the question, did they time it just before so they could reduce the limelight from Facebook?Most cases announcements such as the one Facebook did are kept under the wraps for a long time so as to not "tip the hat" to the competition. The counterpoint is that you build a sense of excitement - a la Apple with the iPhone, but even Apple's very good about managing their announcements.This is probably a very good lesson in making sure you dont give anything away for your competition to steal your thunder.

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I have 5 books that I re-read at least once a year. If you're an internet marketer, or looking to become one, I recommend having a look:

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This self-delusion, the result of what’s called cognitive dissonance, has been demonstrated over and over by researchers who have come up with increasingly elaborate explanations for it. Psychologists have suggested we hone our skills of rationalization