This is a guest post by Sharewords contributor Tony Hollingsworth. Tony’s own Sharewords “synergizes people and technology” inspired him to develop this idea for Sharewords. Tony has over 20 years experience in the information technology and data industries working with leading players including IBM Cognos, Dun & Bradstreet and The Nielsen Company. He is passionate about the Internet and excited about the way it is changing society and business. Tony’s primary passion is people – sharing his knowledge and experience to make them and their businesses more successful. Feel free to connect with Tony on LinkedIn, Twitter or his blog. Read more…
tags | Boosting recommendation, Building an on-line community, Building sales, Business & social, Buying audience, Communication skills, Crowdsharing, Crowdsourcing, Data analysis, Diamond focus, Diamond-tipped focus, Effective communication, Growing sales, High-performance communication, Increasing referral, Referral business, Sales tactics, Sell without selling, Share-market, Share-words, Social media, Social networking, Tag cloud, Target audience, Valuable community, Word of mouth, Word-of-mouseBLACK CHAIR: BUSINESS SUCCESS TV
Episode 16: Four cash-flow boosters
Welcome to Black Chair. The single-minded purpose of Black Chair is to help you succeed in business.
“Let’s talk about increasing your all-important cash-flow.”
In this episode, we discuss a topic that literally makes or breaks your business – your cash-flow.
tags | Black Chair, Business advantage, Business advice, Business development, Business disciplines, Business mentoring, Business planning, Business skills, Business success, Business tips, Commercial conversation, Commercial mindset, Commercial rates, Commercial skills, Linkedin, Salary, Video, Video tutorials 
Rarely a day goes by without someone sharing a brilliant idea from top marketing guru and author, Seth Godin. He’s an opinion leader of great influence and someone who’s best ideas I would love to discuss with you.
In your opinion, what are Seth Godin’s best ideas? How have these ideas helped you succeed?
tags | Building revenue, Commercialising ideas, Developing ideas that sell, Effective marketing, High-performance, Ideas, Innovation, Innovative ideas, Marketing, Profiting from your ideas, Radical ideas, Revenue generation, Seth Godin
People are spending increasing amounts of time online – building businesses, brands and publishing ever bigger slices of their lives. Reflecting on this recently, I was wondering what differences there are, if any, between the people we meet and interact with online, and their offline counterparts?
I would love to discuss this topic with you in the comments. Read more…
tags | Authenticity, Cartoon, Illustration, Offline identity, Online collaboration, Online engagement, Online identity, Online participation, Online strategy, Personal branding, Picture, Social media, Social technology, Technology change communication
Apple Inc. has recently become the second-largest company on the S&P 500 in terms of market capitalization, surpassing Microsoft Corp. We have much to learn from the success of Apple and I would love to discuss this topic with you.
In your opinion, what makes Apple so successful? How could they become even more successful?
tags | Achievement, Apple, Building sales, Business development, Business success, Deconstructing success, Growing sales, iPad, iPhone, Success
My friend, Catherine White wrote an excellent post For whom the iPhone tolls. It raises the important issue of being able to disconnect from technology – turn the computer off, switch off the phone, hibernate the pad – just for a moment.
It got me thinking – what’s your routine for disconnecting from technology? Is it even necessary? I would love to discuss this with you in the comments below.
tags | Blogging, Connection technology, Disconnecting, Facebook, Impact of technology, Offline engagement, On-line communication, Online engagement, Social media, Social networking, Social technology, Technology, Technology change communication, Twitter, Valuable community
In a recent tweet, Chris Hall mentioned about getting great engagement. The context was online engagement. He got me thinking about this topic, and I would love to discuss it with you.
What does the term ‘engagement’ mean to you? In your opinion, how does building engagement online differ from offline – if at all?
tags | Blogging, Building an on-line community, Building engagement, Connection technology, Facebook, Offline engagement, On-line communication, Online engagement, Social media, Social networking, Social technology, Technology change communication, Twitter, Valuable community
My mission is to help you succeed. To do this effectively, it will be really useful to know exactly what you are selling and whom you are selling it to. Any confusion here will make it difficult for us to refer business to you.
So let’s get diamond focused. Here’s your chance to spell it out for us – nice and clearly.
tags | Boosting recommendation, Building sales, Business & social, Buying audience, Communication skills, Crowdsharing, Crowdsourcing, Diamond focus, Diamond-tipped focus, Growing sales, High-performance communication, Increasing referral, Referral business, Sales tactics, Sell without selling, Share-market, Share-words, Social media, Social networking, Target audience, Word of mouth, Word-of-mouse
Robin is a proven business facilitator and mentor who will get you diamond-focused on the plans, strategies & tactics that deliver lasting success.
