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Social Media Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

by The Obvious Expert on October 14, 2009

Interested in learning more about an exceptional new experience in social media? Be sure you tune in to a very special “Meet and Greet” with the President of the International Social Media Association, Mari Smith.

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But an often overlooked option is to get money from your clients and customers in advance of work, service, or goods you will be providing to them. Instead of going to a lender to borrow money against the income you anticipate in the future, why not skip that step and try to get your hands on that future income now?

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Has Stupidity Become the New Business Model?

by The Obvious Expert on July 21, 2009

Every day in business (and in your personal life) you have the opportunity to do the right thing; to act wisely; and to follow a path that will lead you to your goal. You also have abundant opportunities to cheat a little (or a lot), lie a tiny bit (or outrageously), and to act on feelings of greed, resentfulness, and selfishness.

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Game Plan for Entrepreneurs and Businesses in a Troubled Economy

July 8, 2009

And even if you were an eighteen-year-old entrepreneurial prodigy in 1930, today you are a 97-year-old entrepreneurial legend who hasn’t been through an economic depression during a time when the business is built or broken by relational marketing on the internet.

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When Your Business Means More than Money

June 30, 2009

It is hard not to focus on the bottom line. If you are a sole practitioner, a consultant, a coach, small business person, or entrepreneur, it can be really stressful when the only boss who can give you a raise is you, and as your own chief financial officer, you have to tell yourself, “No, the business just can’t afford it.”

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Can You Get Your Brand into the Dictionary

June 29, 2009

The reason blogs and websites directed toward business people, consultants, entrepreneurs, and coaches, are using the phrase obvious expert as part of their vernacular is because it is one of, if not the, best descriptor ever conceived for conveying what it takes to be the top of the mind, go-to, specialist in your field.

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Why You Should Link to Guy Kawasaki Blog, Just as Soon as You Link to The Obvious Expert Blog

June 28, 2009

If you write a blog, you should never be afraid to talk about other blogs. It’s not a competition; it’s a community.

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Facebook is Calling Consultants, Coaches, Entreprenuers, and all You Little Guys Who Think Big

June 26, 2009

If you have somehow missed out on the buzz about Facebook Vanity URLs, here is the deal: Up until now, your Facebook profile URL or Fanbook Fan Page URL was too long and too abstract for people to easily remember. Because of this, URLs were hard to share and too unwieldy to become part of your branding package.
BUT all that changed with the opportunity to switch to Vanity URLs.

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More about “The Call of the Entrepreneur”

June 25, 2009

Their insights are truly remarkable and may very well change FOREVER the way you look at your own career as a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or bold businessperson.

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Why Being an Entrepreneur Makes You Feel so Good

June 24, 2009

But the film is not a critique of entrepreneurs; far from it. Instead, Rev. Robert A Sirico of the Acton Institute likens the calling that leads visionary men and women to become entrepreneurs to something that is almost spiritual, comparing entrepreneurship to being like a religion in the devotion it inspires.

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