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Give it away already...
By Porchlight
Would you keep your nicely designed business card for yourself? No, probably not. Your goal is to get it eyeballed as much as possible.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Interactive chat with Dan Heath
By Porchlight
Visit the web site Milwaukee's daily newspaper, the Journal Sentinel, to post questions for Dan Heath. He's leading an online chat tomorrow--Wednesday, January 31 at 12:00 noon. Here are a few suggestions to get the conversation started: * Why is the story of Subway's weightloss celebrity, Jared, so sticky?
Categories: news-opinion
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Links From My Inbox - 1/29/07
By Porchlight
Joel Spolsky reviews Dreaming In Code The Los Angeles Times ran the Financial Times' review of Purpose over the weekend. WSJ's Carol Hymowitz has a Q&A with The Three Tensions author Ken Favaro [sub. needed].
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Time to re-position?
By Porchlight
Jack asked me to post this brief excerpt from Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't by Ram Charan. Early-warning signals that the positioning of your business may need to take advantage of emerging opportunities: Nascent industries emerge. Nontraditional competitors start to appear.
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Nobody says it like Suze.
By Porchlight
Our sister company, Schwartz Bookshops, wanted to let you know that they're bringing Suze Orman to Alverno College on March 9. She has a new book out, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny, about the personal finance concerns women face. (Or, you can reserve an autographed copy here.
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BusinessWeek reviews 800ceoread Blog
By Porchlight
We were a little excited yesterday when we found out BusinessWeek wrote about this blog in their Blogspotting column. I figured we wouldn't get into too much trouble if we showed all 102 words in its original form. Word to The Wise: Whenever I talk to people about the blogging world, I always say to start by listening to what others are saying.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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There _is_ such a thing as a free lunch.
By Porchlight
Remember that special offer I mentioned? It's up at inBubbleWrap. com.
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Speaking of the State of the Union...
By Porchlight
I found this interesting and fitting, seeing as Tuesday was the State of the Union address; it explains the beginning of pulse testing (a way to gauge the public opinion on specific parts of political speeches). Tuesday, I ran across a review in the WSJ [paid subscription required] of Dr. Frank Luntz's Words that Work.
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Like rubber on glue
By Porchlight
We know you want to meet these guys. Just a reminder that Dan Heath and Chip Heath, authors of Made to Stick, will be in Milwaukee in just two weeks, on February 6. These guys are drumming up a lot of media and support.
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Bob Sutton on Today tomorrow
By Porchlight
I am getting this up late, but Bob blogs that he and The No Asshole Rule will be featured on the Today show tomorrow morning (Wednesday 1/24/07) at 8:32AM (I am guess Eastern Time).
Categories: news-opinion