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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Ways to Network Yourself Online
This post titled “Networking Without Walls or Boundaries” gives some insight as to how to network yourself online. It’s weird- there really aren’t boundaries to what you can do online. For instance, there are interesting bloggers all over the world that you can develop relationships with. With VOIP services like Skype, it is easier than ever to build your rolodex internationally.
Start a Business Now- 20 Ideas, $100 Million Dollars
Though many people have been blogging about the “Blogging for Dollars” cover story of the most recent business 2.0 magazine, I thought “The Smartest Companies to Start Now” was just as fascinating (if not more so). The B2Day mentioned the article in this post and goes on to mention the obvious (in my opinion), “Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s what you do with them that counts.” Two of the ideas that jumped out at me were The eBay of Product Placement and the Social Marketplace (for complete list, click here). The Social Marketplace- Pretty simple concept- merge social networking and online marketplaces where people buy and sell their own content. Maybe…if only eBay and … Continue reading
Umm…Lay-Offs Via E-mail?
You’ve got to be kidding me. RadioShack laid off 400 people by, well, sending an E-MAIL! Thankfully, I’ve never personally experienced a lay-off before, but I can only imagine what that does to someone’s confidence. To make matters worse, imagine you learned that your boss didn’t even have time to tell you personally. Senior Managers out there: have some respect and at least speak to soon to be ex-employees face to face when your corporation scales back its workforce. If something like that happened at the company I work for, it’s likely I would follow those given the boot right out the door in the search of a new job. Time will tell how RadioShack’s employees handle … Continue reading
Web 2.0 Podcast with Tim O’Reilly
Web Design Resources has a great podcast with Tim O’Reilly, who is almost always referenced when speaking about Web 2.0. “Fail fast, scale fast” is something you Web 2.0 developers reading this know a bit about. For those of you interesting in learning more from Tim O’Reilly, there is a great interview here or you can check his web page here.
Reasons to Blog
I’ve touched on the subject before here and here, but an interesting post on Mike’s Points called “Blogging beyond your richest dreams” brings me to the subject of reasons to blog again. I definitely find myself in Mike’s camp on a couple of points: “I blog because it makes me think more“- blogging allows me to write and brainstorm about subjects that I find interesting relating to business and technology (among other things). “I blog because I learn more about my profession”- I have a very entrepreneurial mind and I’m always thinking of new business ideas. I’m truly interested in almost every topic related to business- from HR to Public Relations to marketing. Blogging (and reading other … Continue reading
Is Growing a Business Easy?
I got to thinking a little more about what I learned by watching the Startup Success 2006 video and came across this post on the SportsLizard Entrepreneur Blog that says, It also seems to me that you don’t need hardly any money at all to grow your business. That means that as a YE, you and I and everyone else can market our companies effectively with a telephone, a computer, an email account, some word processing software, and some business cards. You don’t need to spend a ton of money to promote your business. While PARTLY true, I think people think this viral marketing thing is too easy. Getting free press and generating a buzz is … Continue reading
20 Great Resources for Entrepreneurship
This post is a couple weeks old, but I doubt ALL you entrepreneurs out there have seen it, so take a look if you are looking for tips and tricks to success. There are some great blogs such as Small Business Branding and Steve Pavlina’s Blog on the list of resources.
