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Brain Storm Business Podcast: Lessons Learned from Steve Martin, sponsored by Commercial Creation Center In today's Brain Storm!
Business Podcast, we will look at lessons learned from the
autobiography of Steve Martin.
I have a love for biographies, either business or celebrity. I don't go
after current pop-icons, but older entertainers who have been around the block.
Their lives offer lessons anyone can learn from, and I realized last night, that
they offer great business lessons as well.
Entertainers are Entrepreneurs too.
If you think about it, they are in the business of promoti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm Business Podcast, Obama Marketing and ZipCar Strategies, sponsored by Commercial Creation Center
In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss (in passing)
Obama's flawless marketing campaign, as well as ZipCar's 7 point strategy to
break out of the old mold and move from $2 million to $100 million in revenues.
As I said, I only mention Obama's campaign in passing, but thought it
deserved mention. A vague but energizing word (Change), celebrity endorsements,
the use of social media, and the targeting of an untapped generation of
typically unmotivated (and uninfo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm Business Podcast, The Persona of Kevin Rose of Digg, Pownce & Revision3, sponsored by Commercial Creation Center
In today's Brain Storm!
Business Podcast, we will talk about the cover story of Inc. magazine -
Kevin Rose of Digg, Pownce & Revision3. He is the media mogul of the
future, or so they say. But what impresses people the most about him is his
persona.
He's accessible. He drinks beer and parties with geeks. He tells dirty
jokes on internet tv. Or does he?
He admits that he has one persona for doing business, and another one for
promoting business. In today's business podca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website <p><strong>In today'...In today's Brain
Storm! Business Podcast, we will review thenew Sprint
Commercial and what they are doing DIFFERENT from all of the other mobile phone
companies, and how we can apply it to our businesses.
Have you seen the black and white, simple commercial from
Sprint, telling existing and potential customers that they can come in
and have their phone explained to them? Brilliant - they are actually
acknowledging that the majority of their cell phone service users have NO CL ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Entrepreneur.Com Talks about Commercial Creation Center
You can see the article
done on me and the Commercial Creation Center at:
http://weekend.entrepreneur.com/2008/10/14/why-not-jump-on-the-video-sharing-bandwagon/
Michelle Anton asked me to
ask you all to leave comments there, if you know
me personally or know my work - there's a place in the comment field for
you to put your web site link, which isn't a bad thing to have a link to your
site from Entrepreneur.com!
Penny Haynes
P.S. Remember, the new Brain Storm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BrainStorm Business Podcast: Lessons Learned Amid Business Crises, sponsored by Commercial Creation Center Hello Brain Storm
Business Podcast followers - if you are still out there. No, Penny
Haynes is not dead - she has just had to switch hats from entrepreneur to
geeky programmer for the last several months. Today she has been liberated as
the Commercial Creation
Center multimedia production software went public. So now I'm back to doing
the thing I love to do - like podcasting and learning about business ideas and
successes!
Brief review of what has happened over the past 4 month ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Getting Real - Simplify Your Business, Sponsored by Online Community MagazinesIn today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss an online book by 37Signals called Getting Real and how to apply some of their concepts to our own businesses.
My Argentinian programmer who is working on the Commercial Creation Center suggested that I read this book. I think he was trying to tell me something. I am always tempted to add more things to my software. This book tells me less is more - as long as it meets the customers' needs.
Simplify and Focus is the first order o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Pricing Strategies for Your Product, Sponsored by Online Community Magazines
In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss different strategies to determine and implement pricing for your products and services.I first explain the problems I have been (and am continuing to) endure with my USB microphone. Ear pieces move, and despite packing tape, still cause clicking and clacking. Just shoot me now. We discuss the different options in pricing and how pricing is a part of your marketing strategy. Determining your target market and competition (or la ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: SalesConX Lets You Directly Buy And Sell Contact Introductions, Sponsored by Online Community Magazines
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss SalesConX with its CEO, Evan Sohn, and how you can, in a very straight-forward manner, buy and sell introductions to the people you need to contact.I was introduced to SalesConX by the owner of a business opportunity directory. She had signed up for the affiliate program and we were all offered a $25 credit. I figured "Why not try it." So far, I'm glad I did.Ever want to find your pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: YouTube and Flash News, sponsored by Online Community Magazines
In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss some of the latest happenings for YouTube, Flash and Mogulus, and how you can make the most of this news.Microsoft is planning to license both pdf and flash for use on mobile platforms. What does this mean for you and me? The ability to see flash based video on our cell phones. What will you do to apply that knowledge to your own business? How about putting flash based audio and video on your website.YouTube is making it easie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Wikinomics and Outsourcing, sponsored by Online Community Magazines
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will begin a discussion based on the book Wikinomics, as well as the practical uses of outsourcing as partnering.***as a side note, sorry about the sound quality of the recording. There is intermittent clicking caused by my breaking in of a new USB microphone. It won't happen again, I promise!I'm enjoying Wikinomics. It's not like studying brain surgery, but more like delving into a topic in which you hav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Investing In Your Business, Sponsored by Online Community Magazines In today's Brain Storm Business Podcast (long overdue, I know), I videocast with a webcam and discuss digging deep to invest time and money to better equip and promote your business.Ever have an idea that seemed great, but didn't succeed as you had imagined? What did you do about it? Abandon it or analyze it? I advocate analyzing it before you abandon it, and see if you can find out what is missing and shore up the gaps.With the Online Community Magazines, there was a gap between wanti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: PlayCafe's Live Internet Game Show Network
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm Business Podcast, I interview PlayCafe CEO Mark Goldenson.
Mark Goldenson, Chief Executive Officer
Mark Goldenson, CEO, has eight years of experience in launching internet services. Mark was a product manager at PayPal where he managed registration and in-house CRM for 1,300 service agents.
previously co-founded Woosh, and raised $21 million in funding.
co-founded the Stanford Bazaar, a local online marketplace acquired by Sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Pinkberry and Mint - Paying for an Experience or a Product, sponsored by Online Community Magazines
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss the important of providing an experience and not just a product, using Pinkberry and Mint as examples.PLUM CARD! That's the credit card that was advertising that they provide Pinkberry with the credit they need to keep expanding their pseudo-frozen-yogurt franchise. In the podcast, I couldn't remember the name (I only remembered it was some type of reddish color). Great example of cross-mark ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Free Tools To Create Videos and Live Internet TV
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will looks at free tools to create videos and also to create live internet tv shows.There are times when everything converges in the same place at the same time, and I find myself talking and teaching about these audio and video tools over and over again. So I am taking my own advice and recording the information once so I can then direct people to this recording and they can benefit from it - without me sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Ads In Social Networks Like Facebook and Google, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss 'to advertise or not to advertise' - in social networks, which is the question.Facebook and Google are facing off in the arena of social networking and advertising. Now we all know that Google is king when it comes to ads, but Facebook has the momentum from the success of it's social network. Google has moved into the social network realm, and now Facebook is moving into advertising.Do consume ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: CourtTV Becomes truTV | Free Advertising on USA Today
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's episode of Brain Storm! Business Podcast, I review the business strategy behind CourtTV becoming truTV, and also share an opportunity for free advertising in USA Today.Have you ever considered changing your entire business and content just so you can attract a target market for potential sponsors? That's what CourtTV is doing, thanks to Steve Koonin, who is masterminding the entire thing. Instead of focusing on content first, they are thin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: CoPromotion for Self-Promotion, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we are going to discuss Co-Promotion as a way to self-promote.There are many ways to promote yourself, but you wouldn't automatically think that promoting something or someone else could bring attention to you. However, that is a valid way to market yourself. It has been done with Diet Coke, Mentos, Firefox and the iPhone, to name a few.When you promote another "hot" item, you can draw traffic from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: The Importance of Design In Your Business, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing In today's Brain Storm! business podcast, we will discuss the importance of design in your business, from conception, through production, to marketing and consumption.We talk about Fast Company's article on Yves Behar, and there are some great ideas to discuss. His points on not following the crowd, and the impossibility of getting the best design from concensus, should really make us think about our standard ways of determining what's "good".You are who you hang out with in th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Widgets for Marketing Your Business, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss widgets, and how you can use them to market your business.Widgets are the buzz word nowadays - small, inexpensive, customizable programs that e-retailers and online businesses hope that their clients will download and put on their desktops. First the businesses create widgets, then they figure out how to bribe their customers to download the widgets, and finally, they monitor their customers' r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Listener Comments on My Yearbook and Facebook, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast.Today, I'll share and discuss Brain Storm Business Podcast Listener comments from this past week:
Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with sketch ) wrote:
Hi, Penny. Glad to have you back.
I heard Catherine Cook speak at the iMeme conference in San Francisco on July 12th, but I didn't get a chance to interview her. My impression was that whoever had the initial idea, she's got some definite ideas about what works with it now. And I'm totally with you regarding age-a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: My Yearbook, Created(???) by a 17 year old, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will review another online social networking phenomenon, which was supposedly started by a 15 year old girl 2 years ago, and which now brings in over 1 million visitors a month and millions of dollars.In an article on Cnet.com, they interviewed Catherine Cook, the 17 year old "owner" of My Yearbook. Of course, it helps to have an older brother who could put $250,000 into the business idea to make ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Online Video Statistic Webinar, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we are going to discuss online video statistics, and how businesses are using online video to advertise, market and sell products and services.This is a 75 minute audio extracted from an online Webinar I did today. If you would like to see the Video Class, you can watch it here. We discussed statistics on broadband users, video watchers, user generated content, and different types of video. We also talked ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Businesses for People with Disabilities, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss the lessons I learned at the APSE Conference about helping people with disabilities get employment or start their own business.I learned so much, it's all crammed in my brain. It was an experience that launched that much more brainstorming, as well. It also confirmed that this is where my heart and passion is - helping people with disabilities who WANT to have their own business REACH THEIR GO ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Why Wii Trounced the XBox360 and PlayStation , sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will review why the Wii has trounced the XBox 360 and PlayStation gaming systems, and what business lessons we can learn from Nintendo.What do you get when you combine a non-threatening remote with wi-fi and cute little cartoon renderings of you and your friends? You get Wii - a gaming system that you can't find to save your life. Nintendo is making over 1 million of them a month, and still can't keep up wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Statistics on User-Generated Content and Multimedia, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In this week's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss statistics related to user-generated content, including multimedia, and its affect on website traffic.I have been researching this information for marketing purposes for my Online Community Magazine software. You should definitely check out a site called eMarketer.com - tons of great information there. I can't afford their paid subscription ($10,000 a year!), but I can afford their free n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: China Embraces Web 2.0 with a Passion!, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will look at how China is embracing Web 2.0, and how they are learning from our previous mistakes.China is making the most of the Web now, and it appears like everyone and their brother are trying it. The featured business of the CNet article was KU6, the victor in the race to establish an online video site in China. The low entry price to run a business in China meant a gold-rush type mentality of Chines ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Generation Y as Employees and Clients, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast we will discuss Generation Y, and how they will change life as we know it as both Employees and Clients.
They are spoiled, self-centered, covered in tatoos, piercings and electronics. They are high maintenance, but luckily also high performers - when they want to be. A lot of them live at home, or at least see their parents once a week. This is our future. They are a result of baby boomers rejecting their pare ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: NBC Uses Digital Media, Tunica's Money Doesn't Stop Poverty, sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss two issues: NBC's move to digital media and Tunica, Mississippi's stubborn hold on poverty, despite riches from their casinos.
NBC has seen the light and has started utilizing multiple broadcasting "channels", from previews and regular posting, to iTunes and delivery to cell phones. They have recognized that they need to place themselves (and their advertisers) wherever the potential ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: DayJet, Complexity Science and Total Soccer, Sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing and Online Community Magazines
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we review DayJet's brilliantly innovative way of preparing to do business, and their solution that can be described by way of a Total Soccer analogy.Reading this article in Fast Company's May 2007 issue was like going through mental calisthenics. The beauty of what DayJet is doing is based on simple logic regarding how they approach problem-solving. Everyone spends all their time trying to find the one perfec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Facebook and Its 22 Year Old Founder, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingIn today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will discuss the 22 year old entrepreneur who left Harvard to market his wonder-creation, Facebook.This is a great, fairy-tale business story (well, except for the fact that some other Harvard students are suing him, saying he stole their idea) about someone who made it right out of the gate. His story is a combination of kismet, hacking, and determination to keep what is his.Once a hacker, always a hacker, Mark Zuckerberg started programming in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Warcraft Business StrategiesClick here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast we will brainstorm about business strategies from the multi-player game, Warcraft.Who would have thought that you could learn such great business lessons from a massively multi-player game? Blizzard Entertainment uses great strategies to make 1 billion dollars a year and keep over 50% for profits.First of all, they start with a $20 package to install the game. Then add on a $15/month subscription package. Multiply that by t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: How Apple Retail Stores Became the Best, Sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast.In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will review how Apple has become the biggest selling retail store (by square foot).Who would have thought it made good business sense? Not the naysayer that gave Apple 2 years before they would turn out their retail store lights. That was 5 years ago, before Apple started making over $4,000 per square foot in their stores. A lot of planning went into this venture, that Jobs says all went toward the release o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Online Community Magazines - Around Cherokee CountyClick here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast, I am going to ask YOU, the listener, to talk to ME about an the Online Community Magazine project I have been telling you about, in particular, AroundCherokeeCounty.com. I've just been so busy removing my sites from GoDaddy (I don't know WHERE they went wrong - greed maybe - but they are just a lost cause as far as I'm concerned) that I haven't had time to do anything else. Hence this explanation for why the regularly sched ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Interview with Pam Slim of Escape From Cubicle NationIn today's episode of Brain Storm! Business Podcast, I interview the most fascinating and well-spoken woman, Pam Slim of http://www.EscapeFromCubicleNation.com, who wrote an open letter to CEOs, CFOs, etc. about their bad business protocols that brought in 20,000 hits!Pam definitely struck a nerve, to say the least! Anna Farmery, of The Engaging Brand, pointed her post out to me because it was so much like what I had been talking about in Brain Storm! Pam and I had a great discussion abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: 100 Most Admired Businesses, Sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast, we will start a series about the 100 most admired businesses in America and the world, and brainstorm about what we can learn from them to apply to our own businesses.Fortune has put out a list of their Top 100 Most Admired businesses, and today is an overview of some of those businesses, and why they are admired. The key word for these businesses seems to be "green", and that's not just for money. They are envi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Salon Business Strategy (And How I Walked Out of a Free Consultation with $100+ of Product!), Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast.In today's business podcast, we will discuss what I have termed the "Salon Business Strategy", or how beauty salons make great money by giving away "free" services.Today's brainstorming session revolves around actual personal experience, instead of business news. A friend gave me a coupon for a "free" cut and color, which the beautician had given to her when she had the same service done for herself. I went in for a pre-coloring consultation and walked o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: The Future of Work and Business with Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast.In today'sbusiness podcast, we will discuss more about the future of work and business with Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand.It's great to get to discuss things with someone who has the same love for business, only from a corporate angle. The same information works for both of us, but for different reasons. Anna works mainly with people in corporations who want to keep their employees. I, of course, just want to brainstorm about how to make any and e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Resevratol - Anti-Aging Drug That Retards Ill Health Related with Old Age, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast we will discuss Resevratol, the upcoming anti-aging drug that retards the diseases that come with old age.The possible benefits of this molecule found in the skin of red grapes and is present in red wine are:Keeps weight downWards off diabetesPrevents cancerIncreases exercise endurancePrevents Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseasesThis drug does not eliminate diseases - it slows the aging process and postpones the related malad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: How Google Keeps Employees, Sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
Click here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast, we will discuss what makes an employee stay in a job, and how Google does it in such flamboyant fashion.
Google is the number 1 company to work for, according to Fortune magazine. No wonder, since they offer free food and a host of free services to them! Google is supposedly such a great place to be, that even people who DON'T work there stop by and loiter.Chicken or the Egg: Are Google Employees lavished with gifts and se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Microsoft Vista, Second Life and Hannah Montana, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast, we will discuss Microsoft's Vista, Second Life and Hannah Montana, and what business lessons we can learn and apply from all three of them.Have you seen the Apple commercials making fun of Vista lately? Just to funny. But oh so appropriate. The article I read on the internet stated that Vista may be great in the future, but you should wait until you get a new computer before you venture there.Ask PC why you should wait for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Living (And Brainstorming) with Cerebral Palsy - Glenda Watson Hyatt, author of "I'll Do It Myself"
Click here to listen to the podcast.In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we are hosting a very special edition that should hopefully bring home the point that there is absolutely no reason why you cannot achieve whatever you set your mind to achieve. Joining us today is Glenda Watson Hyatt, author of "I'll Do It Myself", an autobiography of her life with Cerebral Palsy. I don't want to steal Glenda's thunder, so I am going to just let you enjoy this very special interview. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Interview with Annie Jennings PR about Don't Lift A Finger Podcast, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast. In today's Brain Storm business podcast, I interview Annie Jennings of Annie Jennings PR about her newest service, "Don't Lift A Finger Podcast" service.I thought it fitting to share this interview with the Brain Storm listeners, because I was talking in last week's business podcasting episode about how Annie had inspired me to start doing free classes. Then I found out that she has an upscale service that does it all (and I mean ALL) when i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Giving Away Free Resources and Free Classes to Build Your Brand, Sponsored by 1st Podcast Publishing
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In today's business podcast,
we will be discussing a great and relatively inexpensive (possibly even
free) way of building your brand, and as someone once told me I was
doing, building good karma - all by giving away free resources and doing free classes. <smile>I owe this revelation to Annie Jennings, of Annie Jennings PR. This woman does so many free seminars that
I wondered how in the world she found time to do any "work" and mak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Faith In The WorkPlace, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast.In today's business podcast, we will discuss the benefits and challenges of allowing and dis-allowing expressions of faith in the workplace (and in other public places as well).This is based on an article in the December 2006 issue of Inc, and makes some great points about religious beliefs and how to best handle them in the workplace. This is not just about hiring issues, or people being refused the opportunity for their religious group to meet on compan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Building Your Rolodex with Online Social Networking Sites, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingIn today's Brain Storm! business podcast, we will discuss the different waysto find the business contacts you need - via online social networking sites.There are different ways to build your network and find valid contacts, and this Inc. article from the December 2006 issue has some great information to offer. Some of the sites you can check out are:Jigsaw, Ziggs, ZoomInfo, SpokeLinkedIn, Ryze, BranchIt, CompanyClickLeads.com, Ingenio, eStaraEloqua, ExactTarget, VerticalResponseBefore the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Cool, Free Software for Your BusinessIn today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, I will be sharing with you free business software featured in the November issue of Inc. magazine. Thanks to Michael Fitzgerald for his great article. I've also added business software of my own choosing as well...Managing Projects software: Basecamp http://www.basecamphq.com. Free for managing one project at a time.I also suggested phpCollab, which comes free with 1st Pod Hosting.Making Presentations software: Zoho Show http://www.zohoshow.com. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Flickr and Smart Homes - What they DON'T have in common, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingIn today's business podcast, we will review the meteoric rise to fame and fortune that Flickr creators have enjoyed, and why Smart Homes won't ever really take hold. The reason behind the success of the first idea in a way contributes to the doom of the second one. One plays on heart strings, while the other one ignores them - hence explaining why Flickr has become an icon, and the Smart Home is just a technological dream.I love the Flickr story, because it's real, and they never intended ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Mini Billboards, Sponsored by 1st Podcast PublishingClick here to listen to the podcast. In today's business podcast, we will take a look at inexpensive, targeted offline marketing via mini billboards.If you know who your clients are, and where they hang out, you have it made. You are also ready to implement today's brainstorm ideas, if you can reach your target in your own backyard. We will talk about putting advertising directly in the path of your desired clientele.Fat juicy hamburgers and french fries at a fitness club?That's what Kno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |