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- Our Latest Curated List of Small Business Events and Awards
- Ramon Ray Pep Talk, Ignoring Naysayers and More
- TAXI Offers Inspiration for Creative Entrepreneurs, Others
- Read “Confidence” to Build Yours and Succeed
| Our Latest Curated List of Small Business Events and Awards Posted: 16 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST Here’s a selection of the upcoming small business events, contest and awards. Check them out — you might find a valuable opportunity to network with your peers or win a small seed amount to grow your business. To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar. Featured Events, Contests and Awards
The BIG Innovation Awards recognize organizations and people who bring new ideas to life. Whether that idea is big or small, these ideas change the way we experience the world. We recognize every innovation that our judges deem worthy!
Dell World is Dell’s annual tech conference. This year it features a keynote address by Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, and one by Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal. Entertainment by CAMP FREDDY. Small Business Trends will be there! Hashtag: #Dellworld
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#ICON14 is the eighth annual conference for small business, hosted by Infusionsoft (previously called Infusioncon). Over 3,000 attendees expected. Confirmed speakers include Seth Godin, JJ Ramberg and Peter Shankman. Hashtag: #ICON14 More Events
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This weekly listing of small business events, contests and awards is provided as a community service by Small Business Trends and SmallBizTechnology. The post Our Latest Curated List of Small Business Events and Awards appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
| Ramon Ray Pep Talk, Ignoring Naysayers and More Posted: 16 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. We think our online business community is the best on the Web. This week’s community news and announcement roundup is a great case in point. It’s a look at some of the key issues on the minds of entrepreneurs like you. Be sure to check out the bottom of this post for more about how you can become involved too. Ramon Ray Gives Himself a Pep Talk (SmallbizTechnology.com) Ramon Ray, marketing and technology evangelist at SmallbizTechnology.com, is having one of those days. But he’s talking to you too. There are times every entrepreneur would rather stay in bed when the alarm clock sounds. Here’s what to do instead. Never Mind the Naysayers (CocoaFabs) Former Essence Editor-in-Chief Angela Burt-Murray says a co-worker used to complain constantly that she had too many ideas and not enough focus. Since then she and media strategist Shelly Jones Jennings have launched their own series of sites under the Cocoa Media Group banner where her many ideas are put to good use daily. Learn from Top Entrepreneurs (Business2Community) Learn from 14 entrepreneurs including Small Business Trends CEO Anita Campbell how documenting procedures in your business can change everything — for the better. Owen McGab Enaohwo shares the full details with this post. Great Titles are Key for Content (Clickfire) Laurel Staples of Go Fire Yourself has some thoughts on how to create titles for your content that readers can’t resist. And it sparked some great conversation in the BizSugar community too. Have a look. Reasons to Rethink Crowdfunding (Bplans) Talk of crowdfunding is everywhere these days as an exciting financing alternative. Not so fast, say some in the business community. There are some reasons you may wish to forgo this approach. Yahoo Domians for Sale (Marketing Land) You may not ordinarily think of Yahoo as the place to go to buy business domains. But as, Matt McGee explains, these are an unusual case. Be aware, though. This is some high priced online real estate. How Marketers Use Myth and Community (Damn, I Wish I’d Thought of That) Blogger Andy Sernovitz gives two great examples of great myth-making in modern marketing. They are the legendary stories of Steve Jobs at Apple and Mary Kay Ash at Mary Kay’s Cosmetics. Here’s how all this applies to you. Consider Outsourcing eCommerce (Outsourcing Insider) So, you sell a product or service online. And you’re trying to adapt to changes including the increased popularity of mobile in ecommerce purchases. Al Pangan has some suggestions you may want to consider. How to Get Better at Business Negotiations (CorpNet) No, being great at business negotiations isn’t necessarily something you’re born with. But fortunately, it’s generally something you can learn. Here’s Anita Campbell with more. More From the Twitter IPO (BrookeBoser.com) Finally, the Twitter IPO continues to cause ripples throughout the business community. Here social media strategist Brooke Boser takes time to compare Twitter to other high profile social media IPOs. She also does a bit of analysis on where the Twitter experience goes from here. We love to share what’s on the minds of the very broadest range of small business owners and entrepreneurs. So to continue improving the weekly community news and announcement roundup, we need your ongoing help. Please, if you have anything you think we should share, contact us at sbtips@gmail.com or share it on BizSugar.com. If we think it would be interesting to our community, we'll use it. Reading Photo via Shutterstock The post Ramon Ray Pep Talk, Ignoring Naysayers and More appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
| TAXI Offers Inspiration for Creative Entrepreneurs, Others Posted: 16 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST
TAXI is a daily updated news and editorial site that provides inspiration for creative professionals such as designers, creatives entrepreneurs and others. The site marks its tenth year of publishing in 2o13 and is located at DesignTaxi.com. Its purpose is to showcase the work of creative professionals and entrepreneurs from a variety of industries. It also provides inspiration and a way to keep up with industry news and information about new tools and techniques. TAXI features examples of product design, architecture, photography, apps, and more. You click on an item from the main page. Then you can view a brief description of the project and the people behind it. You can also see related photos or other media. Users can browse by type of post or just view the most recent items. Anyone can submit items or tips to the site for inclusion. TAXI also has a presence on multiple social media platforms. They include Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. The site has a community of more than 400,000 followers on all these platforms together. So those who want to receive updates can subscribe to a social media channel or subscribe via email. TAXI is part of The Global Creative Network, founded by designer Alex Goh. The Singapore-based company includes three other sites also aimed at creative professionals and entrepreneurs. The Bazaar
This is an online Marketplace where creatives can sell their work. Launched in 2010, the site includes anything from art prints to jewelry to downloadable products. Shoppers can search by keyword or type of item and price range. Then shop owners can sell and ship their own products directly to customers. The Creative Finder
Users can create a profile and upload their work. Then they can browse the work of others on the site for inspiration or to find collaboration opportunities. Imgembed
Earlier this year, Goh and his team released another site for creative professionals, Imgembed. Imgembed is aimed at those who share images online. Users can upload photos and create image galleries similar to those on other photo-sharing sites. But Imgembed gives users a way to track where their images are used online, and even a way to monetize use of their images with a premium option.
In recognition of TAXI's tenth year online, Goh teamed up with clothing company Uniqlo to create a t-shirt design (above) sold at three of its stores. The shirt features a squiggly line trapped in a box, which Goh said represents the creative process. In a TAXI article, Goh shared a bit about his design:
Whether you think of yourself as creative or not, entrepreneurs go through much of the same process. Sites like TAXI offer a way to be inspired and to see problems in a slightly different light. The post TAXI Offers Inspiration for Creative Entrepreneurs, Others appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
| Read “Confidence” to Build Yours and Succeed Posted: 16 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST
This is nothing new. This is what it's like to be inside my brain. What, you too? Well belly up to the book review because you're about to get an eye-full of some interesting and transformative thinking that will not only have you accepting your inner critic and low self-confidence, but embracing it. Yes! Low Self-Confidence is Actually a Good ThingFor at least the last thirty or forty years, we've been ever vigilant to avoid "low self-esteem" as if being a little uncertain about ourselves, our skills and abilities would somehow turn us into losers, criminals or something worse. Of course there were always those psychologists like parenting expert, John Rosemund, who railed against this prevailing "psychobabble." He tried to convince young parents that a little insecurity and humility is actually a good thing – a precursor to success. Today's world now consists of an interesting mix. Folks who tend to lean more on the insecure, low self-confidence side and those who lean on the high self-confidence side. And according to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, PhD, the author of Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity and Self-Doubt, there's nothing wrong with having low self-confidence. It's what drives you to excellence. And that is a good thing. Ignore Self-Confidence and Aspire to High CompetenceIt's funny that it takes two hundred pages to communicate one simple idea – that you should aspire to have high competence and not high confidence. That's it. But this idea is counter to what we've been taught, how we've been raised and more importantly, how we've been raising our children. So it takes 200 pages to prove it to you. One of the things I really like about Confidence is that it doesn't have an "introduction." Instead, the author has actually written a letter to the reader. That shows that he truly understands the people who have picked this book off the shelf. Those people are the ones looking to improve their self-confidence, as if there is something wrong with them. I actually received a review copy of this book, but it sat sitting on my desk until I had one of those "low self-esteem" moments and picked it up for some DIY therapy. That's when I saw this introduction and was immediately drawn in:
Take a Journey Toward Competence and Real ConfidenceSo your journey as the reader begins. You learn to understand the distinction between confidence and competence. It's a good thing that the author keeps repeating this mantra because you will find yourself needing to be reminded, if you ultimately want to build confidence in business. Confidence consists of eight chapters:
It Takes a Business Psychologist to Raise Our PerformanceThe author, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, PhD (@drtcp) is a business psychologist. He's an international authority in personality assessment, consumer analytics, and talent management. He is the author of seven books, including Personality 101 and more than a hundred scientific articles. He is a professor of business psychology at the University College of London and VP of Research and Innovation at Hogan Assessment Systems. Chamorro writes in a kind, gentle yet authoritative tone that will inspire the "insecure" reader and retire the over-confident ones. Neither will wind up insulted or talked down to. Rather, each will get a new and enlightened perspective on how to reach their goal of higher performance in business and in their personal life. Confidence is Required ReadingThis book is required reading for any professional. But I think younger professionals will stand to benefit the most because this book will interrupt that faulty thinking that confidence is at the root of success – instead of working toward competence. If you're like me and have a few years of work under your belt and still struggle with confidence from time to time, you'll find this book a great diagnostic tool to help you identify exactly where you can build your skills or perhaps which areas you should outsource or get some help with. Confidence is a book for renaissance small business owners looking to broaden their skills and succeed. The post Read “Confidence” to Build Yours and Succeed appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
This is global directory of creative professionals including illustrators, photographers, and graphic designers. The Creative Finder was officially launched in 2012, but started in beta in 2009.
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