Archive for June, 2010
www.Nozbe.com – New version of Nozbe helps everyone in your company get things done together, bringing award-winning Nozbe interface and easy-to-use task, project and time management application.
Duration : 0:3:19
http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/category/network/?cm_mmc=agus_iteplotv-20090615-usitp300-_-n-_-pw-_-y Pat Weakly discusses collaborative web 2.0 tools such as wikis and their place in the business world. She touches on how Colgate-Palmolive is able to better run their plants across countries with collaborative software.
Pat Weakley Colgate-Palmolive
Everyone in our company says they want a wiki and I really want to make sure that they use it for the right thing. And its about being able to collaborate and to really work on policies and procedures. I see great opportunities for it in our manufacturing area where our plants can really share information on how to run the plants more efficiently across the geographies. These people dont work togetherbut theyll be able to kind of update the policy manuals and the procedures associated with the equipment, in real time.
Duration : 0:0:35
http://www.ThoughtRod.com IdeaFisher Brainstorming Software. Once known as the Ultimate Creativity Program. Now there’s ThoughtOffice, called “IdeaFisher on Steroids” by InnovationTools.com. What Mind Mapping did for visualizing ideas, IdeaFisher did for lateral thinking. Now there’s ThoughtOffice Brainstorming and Creativity Software. IdeaFisher for the Future.
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$1 Million Dollar Ideas – ThoughtOffice Innovation Software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8EFcsOP84
For more information about ThoughtOffice Innovation software, visit:
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/
ThoughtOffice Blog:
http://www.thoughtrod.com/blog/
ThoughtOffice is also available in specialty bundles that come installed with a custom selection of Expert Topic Modules:
ThoughtOffice CEO – Answer tough questions fast. Getting to the meat of your business couldn’t be easier. Have a portable MBA, PhD and Coach always on tap.
ThoughtOffice CEO is our most complete software package. Contains all 17 business topic modules.
Use for corporate strategic planning. Group innovation. Advertising and Marketing campaigns. To inspire great meetings. To provide incredible insights. Develop powerful business presentations. Devise brilliant growth strategies.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/business-productivity-software/
ThoughtOffice PR Professional – Packaged for the Public Relations professionals. Comes bundled with 6 expert communications topic modules. And all the materials you will need to craft killer headlines, expansive campaign angles, and winning press releases. Includes PR outline, documents, and samples of winning press releases.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/pr-software/
ThoughtOffice Communicator – Master the art of communications. This package helps you write, speak, and command your audience with confidence. Develop powerful presentations with expert guidance. Equipped with 5 expert business topic modules focusing on communicating your ideas in writing and speech.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/public-speaking-presentations/
ThoughtOffice Coach and Consultant – Manage your executive business coaching practice and clients with one easy to use software program. Includes 7 expert business topic modules targeting key areas of consulting. Includes the Expert Consultant business module.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/executive-business-coaching/
ThoughtOffice Inventor Software – Einstein dreamed of a program like this. With ThoughtOffice, turning your ideas into new inventions is faster then ever before. Includes the Expert Product Development module and four others especially suited for the innovators of today. More than 391,000 satisfied customers. Billions of dollars in real products developed with ThoughtOffice. Used by NOKIA, Apple, Mattel, NASA.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/invention-ideas-software/
ThoughtOffice Muse (Novel Writing Software) – Writing poetry or novels could not be easier. This program comes bundled with Expert Writer; designed especially for poets and fiction writers. Provides the tools you need to write poetry, childrens literature, science fiction, romance, and horror novels. Create the perfect settings. Crisply defined characters. Conceive the perfect villain or hero. Includes 2 other expert topic modules: Expert Evaluator and Expert Speaker.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/novel-writing-software/
ThoughtOffice Comedy Writer Software – Comic relief is at your fingertips with ThoughtOffice Comic Genius.
Developed for the finest comic writers in the nation, this package will help you squeeze every last drop of comic juice out of that amazing melon of yours. Includes 4 expert topic modules. Ask Drew Carey how his writers stay sharp. And kick out killer comic genius at the 11th hour.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/comedy-writers-software/
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Duration : 0:1:0
Ever thinking of start a work-from-home business? Most people do have a dream of working for themselves from their comfort home. However, it turns out there are major pros and cons having a work-from-home business. If you are interested in making your fortune by working from home, then you need to know how to take advantages of its pros and avoid the cons that can make you fail. Let’s explore the reality pros and cons of working from home that you should consider before you set up the business.
1. You are your own boss
Pro: By working at home, you have no boss to look at your back and rush you to complete tasks or to meet a project dateline that you have been paid for as a working individual. You do not need to complete a task assigned by your boss or to write tedious weekly or monthly reports. You are your own boss, you decide what to do next, and you make the call for all decisions.
Con: The reality for many people are that your productivity is often affected when nobody look at your back. You may work hard initially, but after a while you get lazy because no boss is chasing you to meet the dateline for a task. It’s a common human behaviour to get lazy and tend to do things slower if no dateline to be met or no boss to rush them to complete a task within schedule.
2. You write your own paycheck
Pro: If you work for your own at home, you are the one who will decide how much you can earn each month. Basically, you write your own paycheck and decide the amount of the check. There is no limit for the amount to be written on the check, only sky is the limit. Therefore, you can decide to earn 10K a month or 100K a month, any amount is possible, you make the call.
Con: It is not easy to earn a paycheck with amount equal or higher than your current salary, you need to have smart business plan. Many people who try to work from home and earn money online have failed and quit the online business and go back to workplace. So, it not an easy task to replace your day job with a home business unless you have done it right with a right business plan and you may need a good blueprint to help if you do not know how to avoid the common mistakes made by those people who had failed in the business.
3. You work in flexible schedule & less hours
Pro: This is the major benefit and the dream for many working individuals who need to work in fixed hours. You decide your working time and how long you want to work; you can choose to work for just 1 or 2 hours a day and start to work at the middle of the day or even at the mid-night and you can take time off whenever you wish.
Con: For most people, starting a work-from-home business means hard work and long working hours. You have to put in efforts in choosing a right business and do it right until it achieves a success level before you can work in relax mode. And, don’t expect to work in minimum hours because you have a lot of works to do and you need to spend time to get them done if you want a success work-from-home business.
Summary
Starting a work-from-home business involves a lot of efforts and commitments. You should consider it carefully to take advantages of its pros and avoid the cons so that you can success in the business.
Nicole Reebi
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-ideas-articles/should-you-start-a-workfromhome-business-873949.html
GopherHaul 24- Lawn Care Software Business Entrepreneur Show
Business Question:
A member of our Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum, Michelle asked about buying a lawn care business. How much should she be paying?
In response a member wrote:
“General rule of thumb for buying customers is that they are worth about 1 month revenue. If they are commercial you’ll pay a little more and if there is a signed multi-year agreement in place ( which you said there is ) then this will push the price up too. So it could be worth as much as 2 or 3 months revenue depending on the situation.”
Mike then joined the discussion and talked about how many customers would stay with him after he bought their accounts.
“I did lose a few here and there, but I only paid 2.5 times the mowing price, and usually got at least 3 mows before they quit me.”
“Have you checked some of his accounts to make sure they are priced in accordance with what you would charge?
One of the lawn companies I bought out was considerably higher in pricing than mine, so I ended up raising all my original customers up to that standard.”
Read more or join this post here:
http://www.gophergraphics.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=29;t=7525;st=0;r=1;&#entry36897
Should you offer to buy lawn care accounts on craigslist?
http://www.gophergraphics.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=7521;
Fernando joined the discussion and said he posts ads in free online sites in which he offers to buy lawn care customer accounts. Here is the ad he posted in craigslist. Check out the full ad on our forum.
“-Too Tired over the Summer? …or can’t keep up during the hot season?
-Too Hard to work from Sunrise to Sundown?
-Too busy to take care of ALL of your accounts during the “Crunch Time”?
-Customers complaining about not cutting the lawn on time?
I am willing to buy Lawn Accounts”
All this information is great if you are interested in knowing how to buy lawn care accounts but what about selling them? How do you sell lawn care accounts? This poster wants to sell his accounts. How much and how should he do it.
One Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum member made a post about how best to make the transition when you sell lawn care accounts to a new lawn care business. “I bought out 3 lawn companies, and all we did was send a letter to the customers, describing what happened(a new lawn company would be taking care of your yard)
If you want to meet each and everyone of them, then do it.
The new lawn care business owner may want you to sign a non-compete clause so you can’t compete to take the customers back.”
Read more about this post and join in on the discussion here:
http://www.gophergraphics.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=34;t=7567;st=0;r=1;&#entry37074
Product Promotion
Kenneth LaVoie III wrote a book and starting a lawn care business entitled “How to start a lawn care business a whole NEW way.” One of the many fascinating things he discusses in the book is about pruning customers once a year. If there are customers that you find yourself clashing with, he suggests not to raise their price but to simply cancel service for them and replace them with newer clients you do work well with.
Read more about this post here
http://www.gophergraphics.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=7635;r=1
Also Ken was kind enough to offer 50% off his book if you purchase his book from his site http://www.lawnguru.net. When ordering, use coupon code C7815 to receive your discount.
Read more about his book and this great offer here
http://www.gophergraphics.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=NW;f=36;t=7605
If our show or forum has helped you, or if you have any business questions, please let us know and send an email or make a post about your experience! I hope all these ideas have helped you expand and grow your business and mind. So until the next time, always remember to Dream it, Build it, Gopher it!
If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. We have hundreds of free lawn care logo, flyer, door hanger and web templates you can download and use for your lawn care business. We also have free lawn care business contracts. Also download our trial version of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software. Gopher will help your lawn care business schedule and invoice more customers in less time, allowing you more time to grow or enjoy your life. If you are on myspace send us a friend request. We are located at http://www.myspace.com/teamgopher.
Duration : 0:9:50
Hi,
I graduated with a degree in IT engineering from an engineering college affiliated to University Of Pune, India in 2009. While still in college I did not have any job offer from any IT companies visiting our campus, all due to low grades and poor academic performance. I managed to get a job off campus where I was hired as an Trainee Software Developer in a start-up IT company. I started working there but my job was more of QA where I would test the mobile games that are being developed and port them from J2ME to Android to some extent.
After studying 4 years of engineering, I realized that I am not interested working much into technology as working on the business side. So i made up mind and resigned from the job after 5 months.As I was more keen on getting broader business experience before pursuing a full time career in any industry & becoming an expert in that field, so I started doing research about Strategy Consulting and dreaming working in MCKinsey/BCG/ Bain. I applied for above three and a few other but all in vain as I never got through, as I realized it is highly impossible to get into these companies with such low grades and no work experience. Also these companies mostly hire IIT graduates.
My academic performance is very average with very little extra curricular.
10th- 66.8%
12th- 55%
Graduation (B.Tech) (average of 4 years)- 52.4%, I flunked once in graduation. During that 1 year gap in engineering I worked for 7 months as an IT Support Engineer in the IT department of an construction company where my work was to troubleshoot hardware/software/LAN/WAN problem, installing & updating software packages/LAN/WAN, and conducting a review of the configuration of computers in the organization.
After 6 months of gap since resignation from the first job after graduation I managed to get a job of an Analyst from one of the Big 4 for their Risk Advisory services. Here my work revolves around AUTOMOBILE/MANUFACTURING companies, where I help my team members in creating Standard Operating Procedures, Internal Audit, conducting business process reviews and formatting word documents & PPT, creating minutes of meetings in Microsoft office 2007.
As I have very less interest in programming and my programming skills are also average, I took up this job which pays me over Rs.15,000/- a month. Its been more than 1 month since I took up this job. Most of the people in my team (15) are Chartered Accountants except for my manager who is an MBA graduate and is a Mechanical Engineering degree undergraduate. Also I came to that people working at this designation as me (Analyst) are mostly 99.99% commerce graduates, just out of their colleges .
My future plan is to pursue an MBA from an international B-school, 2-3 years from now. I am not expecting to get an admit in to Harvard or London Business school but I am aiming for an globally recognized institute. I took up this job because I thought the name of Big 4 on my resume would fill up the gaps due to poor academic performance during engineering. I am planning to work here for 2 years (1 at least) & I am thinking of trying again for Business Analyst position at McKinsey after 1 year. But this feeling of me being an IT engineer working with commerce undergraduates and doing Internal Audit is not letting me focus on my daily work hence my productivity is getting hampered.
I am really CONFUSED whether or not I have taken a right decision. I am wondering what impact this decision will have when I would be applying to top 20 b-schools in UK/US/France ?? Also does working in this area as an Analyst helps you getting a job in strategy consulting firms like McKinsey & Co, BCG etc ??
Is Internal Audit/ Standard Operating Procedures/Business Process Review meant only for Chartered Accountants ??
Can anyone please give me a detail explanation for my above queries, I am worried and feeling insecure at this point of time.
Thanks in advance.
Do an outstanding job where you are. Gain as much experience as possible
and consider keeping the job and attending school at the same time. You become
more valuable to your employer and you show your stability and determination.
KaviCorp1http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/kavicorp1portland, orTechKavi, Workspace, Business, Process, Management, SoftwareKavi Workspace – Business Process Management Software
Duration : 0:3:15
Dmitry Sotnikov of Quest Software, gives us his perspective on services in the cloud and answers some of the frequently asked questions in his sessions such as:
- When is the right time to move to the cloud?
- What roles/services are not good to think about moving to the cloud
- What types of things you need to be thinking about when moving your services to the cloud
- How is portability a concern on where you want to host your applications?
- Where he sees benefits with Azure and BPOS over the competition
Visit the Azure homepage @ http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
Visit the business productivity online suite (BPOS) homepage @ http://www.microsoft.com/online/default.mspx
Duration : 0:6:0
Creation Technologies is a Canadian manufacturing services company with employees across North America and China. Document management and collaboration used to be a problem for them, then they got Office 2010. See what happened next: http://bit.ly/drgQBs
Duration : 0:3:4
http://thoughtrod.com Innovation and invention are the foundation of a strong economy. Thomas Edison is a fine example of persistence. Somehow there must be a way – let’s find it!
For more information about ThoughtOffice Innovation software, visit:
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/
ThoughtOffice Blog:
http://www.thoughtrod.com/blog/
ThoughtOffice is also available in specialty bundles that come installed with a custom selection of Expert Topic Modules:
ThoughtOffice CEO – Answer tough questions fast. Getting to the meat of your business couldn’t be easier. Have a portable MBA, PhD and Coach always on tap.
ThoughtOffice CEO is our most complete software package. Contains all 17 business topic modules.
Use for corporate strategic planning. Group innovation. Advertising and Marketing campaigns. To inspire great meetings. To provide incredible insights. Develop powerful business presentations. Devise brilliant growth strategies.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/business-productivity-software/
ThoughtOffice PR Professional – Packaged for the Public Relations professionals. Comes bundled with 6 expert communications topic modules. And all the materials you will need to craft killer headlines, expansive campaign angles, and winning press releases. Includes PR outline, documents, and samples of winning press releases.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/pr-software/
ThoughtOffice Communicator – Master the art of communications. This package helps you write, speak, and command your audience with confidence. Develop powerful presentations with expert guidance. Equipped with 5 expert business topic modules focusing on communicating your ideas in writing and speech.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/public-speaking-presentations/
ThoughtOffice Coach and Consultant – Manage your executive business coaching practice and clients with one easy to use software program. Includes 7 expert business topic modules targeting key areas of consulting. Includes the Expert Consultant business module.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/executive-business-coaching/
ThoughtOffice Inventor Software – Einstein dreamed of a program like this. With ThoughtOffice, turning your ideas into new inventions is faster then ever before. Includes the Expert Product Development module and four others especially suited for the innovators of today. More than 391,000 satisfied customers. Billions of dollars in real products developed with ThoughtOffice. Used by NOKIA, Apple, Mattel, NASA.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/invention-ideas-software/
ThoughtOffice Muse (Novel Writing Software) – Writing poetry or novels could not be easier. This program comes bundled with Expert Writer; designed especially for poets and fiction writers. Provides the tools you need to write poetry, childrens literature, science fiction, romance, and horror novels. Create the perfect settings. Crisply defined characters. Conceive the perfect villain or hero. Includes 2 other expert topic modules: Expert Evaluator and Expert Speaker.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/novel-writing-software/
ThoughtOffice Comedy Writer Software – Comic relief is at your fingertips with ThoughtOffice Comic Genius.
Developed for the finest comic writers in the nation, this package will help you squeeze every last drop of comic juice out of that amazing melon of yours. Includes 4 expert topic modules. Ask Drew Carey how his writers stay sharp. And kick out killer comic genius at the 11th hour.
http://www.thoughtrod.com/idea-software/idea-software-bundles/comedy-writers-software/
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Duration : 0:1:54