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SOB Business Cafe 06-25-10

June 25, 2010 by Liz 1 Comment

SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking — articles, books, podcasts, and videos about business online written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Copyblogger
Are you evil enough to join us?

OK. Here are 7 dastardly, fiendish, and just plain frickin’ evil tactics to get ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

Or more customers. Whatever.

Dr. Evil’s 7 Tips for Achieving Worldwide Marketing Domination


Conversation Agent
Geolocation services are not about giving us something to do, as Joe Chernov writes, although I think that’s a pretty good insight. They’re also about giving us something to talk about. That something is status, it comes with the territory.

Checking in as Status Symbol is not Enough


Need a Little Advice?
If you’ve got a small business – be it brick and mortar or a home business – there’s a very real need to present yourself to the community. There’s many ways to accomplish that task – and it’s a task you will do over and over.

Step Away from the Computer


Jonathan Fields
I’ve invested a lot in understanding the psychology of persuasion and learning how to present facts and interactions in a manner that will be more likely to persuade somebody to my point of view.

I’m actually far more effective at this in print than I am in face-to-face conversations, which is probably why, for years, I’ve resorted to print as my prime tool for both expression and persuasion. It also is one of the things that has led me to be reasonably successful writing copy.

The Line Between Persuasion and Manipulation


The Intersection of People and Process
I thought about the passion that was inspired by several groups imageseeking our Crowd Sourced advice on how they might want to move their efforts forward. We focused on Vitamin Angels.

We didn’t have much time to come up with ideas so I used a model that I have been using for a few years for capturing customer evidence. In this case I was thinking of Stephen Covey’s “Begin with the End in Mind” mantra.

Customer Evidence, Crowd Sourcing and Giving Back


Halogen Software Blog
When Sterling Cooper’s new management, personified by Lane Pryce, criticizes the ad agency’s creative department for being a bunch of lazy alcoholics, Draper defends his team with a statement I’ll never forget:

“You came here because we do this better than you, and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.”

Mad Men’s Guide to Managing Creative People


Related ala carte selections include

Jason Falls
But there was one subtlety that I noticed watching the U.S. vs. Algeria on Wednesday that made me almost as ill as watching my country’s team’s defense allow counter chance after counter chance from their opponent. It wasn’t probably noticed by many others, though I’m certain the director of the broadcast was likely fuming over it as well.

How I Know Americans Still Don’t Care About Soccer


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Comments

  1. Deb Brown says

    June 25, 2010 at 8:08 PM

    Thanks for the major mention Liz! You’ve got me with some great company. I’m ready for the nachos and chips – now I’m going to read those others mentioned.

    thanks again,
    Deb

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