By Jessica Merritt
Twitter is an excellent, addictive tool for getting connected socially and building your personal brand. It’s also a simple tool, but there’s a lot you can do to improve upon it. Make use of these tips, tools, and other resources to make your Twitter experience better than ever.
50 Easy ways to Improve Your Twitter Experience
Good post just for nothing else to open your eyes at what you can do with 120 characters.
I went through an in-depth workshop with John Jantsch and the Marketing PlanPro guru's. To tell the truth, when I was looking at the Beta version, I was kind of ho-hum about the whole thing. But this looks pretty impressive as a finished product. Special offer on August 24th Release Date, details coming soon! Do not pre-order it. This will ruin my surprise. You will be able to download it instantly if you wait.
Amazon Says: Marketing Plan Pro powered by Duct Tape Marketing is a brand new release of the #1best-selling marketing-planning software from Palo Alto Software. Are you getting the results you want from your marketing programs? How will you grow your business this year or month, starting today?
Marketing Plan Pro powered by Duct Tape Marketing is the answer. We've taken the award-winning Duct Tape Marketing process and embedded it into simple software that will guide you through the process of creating a powerful marketing system that will help you grow your business. Duct Tape Marketing is a systematic approach to marketing that is as elegantly simple as that sticky and trustworthy roll of duct tape.
The Duct Tape Marketing system, developed by renowned small-business marketing guru John Janstch, shows you how to develop and execute a marketing plan that will give your business the life and longevity you always knew it could have. The Marketing Plan Pro software package integrates this powerful system into a step-by-step approach that guides you through the process of creating a marketing plan that will get results. Marketing Plan Pro will not only produce a great looking marketing plan, but a true action plan that you can start using immediately in your business. Every step includes detailed explanations, examples, and links to the forms and worksheets you need to translate your plan into action. Audio introductions, narrated by John Jantsch, are also included for major topics.
Marketing Plan Pro will automatically generate charts and graphs, and it guides you through the process of creating your forecasts, milestones and goals. Now you can have one of America's most respected small-business marketing experts - one who has helped thousands grow their businesses with a proven step-by-step system - actually guide you along the marketing path for a fraction of what others have paid for the same expert advice and coaching.
I like Ben's blog and he is always having good things to say.
From the Instigator Blog by Ben Yoskovitz
Paul Graham is well-known in the startup world for his past successes and most recently, the launch of Y Combinator. Y Combinator continues to garner a ton of attention, from a combination of the sheer volume in startups being launched through the program, the successful exits, and the way in which they’re shaking up the venture capital industry.
I’ma big fan of Y Combinator. I wish I could have gone through the experience. From the outside looking in, I see an insanely talented and dedicated group of people running the operation, who are working with a slew of bright, young, hungry entrepreneurs. I’ve met several Y Combinator folks and have been impressed with all of them.
I think Canada needs a similar model, although for a whole host of reasons, it can’t be quite the same. But that’s a topic of discussion for another time.
PaulGraham recently published his Fundraising Survival Guide, and I wanted to take a few moments to go through some of his key points and add my own thoughts and experiences to the mix.
- Fundraising is brutal.
- There are no secrets.
- Consulting is the only option you can count on.
- Creates an us vs. them attitude.
- Keep working on your startup.
- Raising money for the first time alone is almost impossible.
Ben offered some great comments and also other insights as well that I did not duplcate here. If you are newbie to raising money take a look here.
Getting ready to offer a Duct Tape Marketing Product Launch kit.
