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How to Control Your Board Discussion and Avoid Chaos

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Recently I wrote the first post in a series on board meetings, entitled, “ Why You’re Not Getting the Most out of Your Board ,” which focused on the need to prepare properly, set good objectives and discuss mostly strategic topics. I can’t say I’m a zero offender in this category either.

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Making A Sport Out of Shopping On Little Black Bag, With Dan Murillo

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We think there is a new category of the e-commerce and shopping sector, the entertainment sector. That offer gets sent out via email to everyone on the site with the target item, and says, for example, Jenny is offering a handbag for your scarf, ten other customers have also received the offer, act right away. It gets quite strategic.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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Zone of Effectiveness – The examples that Covey talks about here are things like exercise and planning. If you can carve out some time during your day to not sit in meetings but in stead to dedicate to thinking about the longer-term, strategic initiatives that are important to you then you’ll do bigger things in life.

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8 Types of Investors That Entrepreneurs Need to Avoid

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These are investors with such massive egos that they expect to dictate both the terms of the investment as well as all future strategic decisions of your startup. Be wary if the term sheet is a document longer than your business plan. Many great real-estate people and doctors fall into this category. Imperial investors.

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How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings

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Make sure to send a monthly email to all board members / investors with a link to your spreadsheet saying, “I’ve made a few updates. But we barely get through all our email let alone log into online spreadsheets. They will likely forward your email to their partners. We’re busy. We want to help.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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