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Impressed with oDesk’s business strategy

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In the outsourcing space, there are several players that offer freelance job posting services (for businesses to post jobs and freelancers to submit proposals). The two big ones are Guru.com and Elance.com; there are others but those are the big two.
There was a time when oDesk might have vied for placement among them [...]

Just read: ‘A Foolproof Method To A Game Changing BREAKTHROUGH!’ at Strategic Profits

I enjoyed this blog post by Rich Schefren. It’s a great read and it really nicely outlines an “easy”, clear, step-by-step way to start or improve businesses that capture the attention of an audience. (Note: when I say “easy” I mean that he simplifies the thought-process, NOT the implementation; there is no substitute for hard [...]

Just read: ‘How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation’ at Social Media Examiner

This is a great article on the use of various social media content channels; interestingly, there is very little emphasis on directly marketing those channels to the public (although there is some spin-off benefit to it). Rather, the emphasis is on innovation.
How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation | Social Media Examiner.
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Just read: ‘Worst Business Blunders of the Year’ at BNET

A colleague of mine just sent me this article:
The 77 Stupidest Managerial Moves and Worst Business Blunders of 2009 | BNET.
It’s the kind of article you can’t help but read all the way through, even though it takes a while.
If it weren’t so shocking, it would be highly entertaining!
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No, you don’t have the next Twitter. No, you won’t be as successful. End of story.

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Twitter is so hot right now and everyone who is anyone seems to be on it. And, as is common with something popular, people are building Twitter clones and Twitter replacements like mad scientists gone awry.
But they seem surprised that they aren’t getting the same flood of traffic to their site that Twitter [...]

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