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Top 10 Biggest Entrepreneurial Mistakes By Mike Michalowicz
I’m a big fan of Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, most recently I was busy to search a books of Mike. Finally I got a PDF inside my ebook store. I start to downloading and that touched me and greatly 10,7, 6 and 1. I figure out that, I’m ruining my life and messed-up my life for business which is totally uncertain — though I know no risk no gain but that doesn’t make sense to spend the full time for business. I’m doing BBA and side by side doing web business. To managing or merging or concentrating in both terms at the same times such as need to take serious decision about business and at the same time exam is knocking that is really tough to handle — I wish I’ll handle it smoothly from today. Oh, I forgot to mention, Mike released his first books, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur[i], I wish it will read this book soon.10. Trying To Get Rich Quick
Most overnight successes take 15 to 20 years to achieve. If you go in expecting to be rich overnight, you may become discouraged early on and give up your dream prematurely. Know that success takes time, takes perseverance and takes a little bit of luck. Give your business the time to grow. Only if your company is stagnant for a long time, should you take it as an indication to try something new.9. Assuming No Competition
Even if you have the latest, greatest, never-been-done-before approach to something, don’t assume you have no competition. Competition is more than just the direct, obvious competitors. Competition is also all the available alternatives. What else could the consumer do instead of using your product or service? Could they do nothing?!? The customer almost always has the option of walking away; and that is a serious competitive threat.8. Being a Weak Leader
The success of your company is contingent on you being a strong, effective leader. This does not mean you need to be an authoritarian, and this does not mean you are everyone’s buddy, either. A great leader sets the course for the company, communicates it constantly and inspires the team to get there.7. Being All Business All the Time
Many entrepreneurs put their personal lives on hold to focus exclusively on their business. Ultimately both suffer. No question your business needs your full attention and effort, but only in short spurts. Just like a peak athlete, in addition to cranking up for game time, you need to have a proper healthy diet, get enough rest, and take breaks. Balance your personal and business life and you will actually do better in both.6. Pie-In-The-Sky Financial Goals
If all business plans came true, being a billionaire would be nothing extraordinary. Many entrepreneurs go into a new venture planning astronomical returns. Yet, most never even get the business off the ground. Unrealistic goals not only hurt your credibility, but can also be an emotional drain. Set Specific, Measurable, Accountability, Realistic, and Time specific (SMART) goals to ensure continual progress; chances of being an overnight success (albeit in 15 to 20 years) are much greater!5. No Rallying Point
There is a reason why employees leave high paying corporate jobs to go to start ups, and it sure ain’t for the money. People are driven to serve an important purpose, in addition to bringing home enough bacon to feed the family. Many businesses never define their real purpose for existence and continually attract a mix of employees who are seeking success in different ways. Clarify the purpose of your company, beyond just making money, and you set the stage for attracting like minded employees. A team focused on the same goal is a very powerful force. The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, “I Have a Booger Hanging Out and No One Is Saying Squat”4. Cutting Price
Often, the first thing entrepreneurs resort to when business is tough is to try differentiating on price. Cheaper prices mean more customers, right? Wrong! Most customers are willing to buy more expensive items because of the greater quality or the better convenience. During tough times, often an increase in price, coupled with improvements in quality or convenience can bring the customers in droves. Price slashing is a dangerous game. At some point you have to slash yourself to keep costs down.3. No Clear Marketing Message
You never know where, when or how a new prospect is going to hear of your business. If you have a mix of messages out there, the prospects will have an unclear expectation of what you offer. Your company must be presenting a consistent clear message on all fronts. You will never get a second chance to make a first impression. Make sure every opportunity a new prospect will get to see your business for the first time, sends the same consistent message.2. Not Being Forthright
The days of cover ups, died out with Bill Clinton’s denial of sexual relations with Monica. The anonymous nature and grand size of the Internet allows someone in the know to share anything with anyone at anytime. If your business tries to cover up a mistake, it is just a matter of time before the word leaks and you are labeled as a liar. That’s not good for business. Be the one to break your own bad news, you just may be perceived as honest and trustworthy.1. Trying To Do It All
The greatest mistake entrepreneurs make is to believe they can do it all by themselves. While an entrepreneur can do most things, they do most things poorly. Just like any other person, an entrepreneur has one or two God given talents. As an entrepreneur it is your job to identify what you are great and do those few things to your fullest. Surround yourself with people who are strong where you are not. Great companies are built on the foundation of exploiting a few strengths, not on trying to be masters of everything.-
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Top 10 Biggest Entrepreneurial Mistakes By Mike Michalowicz http://bit.ly/aQfNjy
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Top 10 Biggest Entrepreneurial Mistakes By @TPEntrepreneur http://ow.ly/1n0wk (via @isakib) RT @KimAuclair
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The UX Canon: Essential Reading For The User Experience Designer
For some time I had been slowly acquiring books, reviewing books, and recommending books to collegues who were interested in “getting into” interaction design, user experience design, information architecture or usability. This eventually led to me cataloging my list of what I consider the best books in the field. With help from my friend Dave Malouf (co-founder of the IxDA and Professor of Interaction Design at SCAD), we edited this list of my canon, and now I want to share this list with you. If you have a question about a particular book, feel free to email me.Next steps, besides slowly acquiring and reviewing more books, is to begin further classification of books. Until that can happen, this is my UX library. If I don’t own it or haven’t read it, it’s definitely not on this list. At the same time, there are books that I own that aren’t included because I thought they sucked for one reason or another. The fourth option is that I have it, have read it, liked it, but simply forgot to include it. So if you ask “Why haven’t you included X, Y, or Z – it’s one of those reasons.”
The Big UX Picture
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman
Core: Required Readings in UX
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper , Robert Reimann , David Cronin
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman
Introductions to UX
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett
A Project Guide to UX: For user experience designers in the field or in the making by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices by Dan Saffer
Thoughts on Interaction Design (Perfect Paperback) by Jon Kolko
Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology by Jonas Löwgren , Erik Stolterman
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman Jr.
Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Education in the Computer Era by Malcolm McCulloughWilliam J. Mitchell (Editor), Patrick Purcell (Editor) (Editor),
Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing by Malcolm McCullough
Practice, Methods and Tactics in UX
Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown
The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web by Steve Mulder , Ziv Yaar
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel and Peter Lunenfeld
Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design by Karen Holtzblatt , Jessamyn Burns Wendell , Shelley Wood
Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs by Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Mike Kuniavsky
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design by JoAnn T. Hackos, Ph.D , Janice C. Redish
The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by John Pruitt , Tamara Adlin
Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction by Bonnie A. Nardi
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel (Editor), Peter Lunenfeld (Preface)
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indy Young
Card Sorting: Design Usable Categories by Donna Spencer
Prototyping: A Practitioners Guide to Prototyping by Todd Zaki Warfel
Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies) by Carolyn Snyder
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell
Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns and Practices for Improving the User Experience by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville
Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation by Nathan Curtis
Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm
Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach by Daniel D. McCracken , Rosalee J. Wolfe , Jared M. Spool
Usability
Don’t Make Me Think: A common sense approach to web usability by Steve Krug
Human Factors in Information Systems: The Relationship Between User Interface Designand Human Performance (Human Computer Interaction) by Jane M. Carey (Editor)
Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach by Jonathan Lazar
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines by Sanjay J. Koyani , Robert W. Bailey , Janice R. Nall
Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies) by Tom Brinck , Darren Gergle , Scott D. Wood
Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Joseph S. Dumas , Janice C. Redish
Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES) by Jakob Nielsen , Hoa Loranger
Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (Paperback – Jun 28, 2002) by Luke Wroblewski
Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies)
by Jared Spool , Tara Scanlon , Carolyn Snyder , Terri DeAngeloVisual Thinking & Info Viz
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
Information Design by RobertJacobson (Editor)
Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design by Peter Wildbur , Michael Burke
Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design by Paul Mijksenaar
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10 Innovative Ways To Get Yourself Out of A Mindblock
For a long time, I guess I’m running such problem that’s mind block. I sort out the problem and today I’m reading another one cool posts and where cleraly disclosed for what reasons it can happen to anyone. If you’ve in such problem, this post might help you out.
Alex Monroe is the founder of GetYourBizSavvy.com, a source for entrepreneurs featuring interviews with leading entrepreneurs from around the world.
We all have great ideas, but finding them is the difficult part. When you can’t think of an article to write, a way to attract more readers, or the next chapter of your book, you’re suffering from a mind block. What do I do, is the question you might ask yourself. It is important to get you thinking, get your mind in motion. Here are ten steps to keep you innovating.
1. Newspapers/Magazines
Pick up a few newspapers and magazines and start flipping through pages. Search everything including advertisements and classifieds. Read the articles that are really interesting. The New York Post always offers an odd article and their cartoons are great. Cartoons can even help you relate to something and come up with an idea.
2. Blogs
There is pretty much a blog on everything. Search blogs similar to the content you offer. Read the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs. Maybe find a new blog in a completely different field. All these will help you create ideas.
3. Books
Read something. Learn about something you never knew about. Getting knowledge on a new subject will create a lot of opportunities.
4. Music
Insert the mixtape that you love and groove to. Music is motivational, inspirational and symbolic. If you don’t think of something while you’re listening and bopping your head, you might learn something within the lyrics.
5. Phone a friend
Call someone you can talk to and also listen to. Ask them about problems they have been facing or if they have anything exciting to talk about. They might say one thing and it will click for you.
6. Ask the audience
This is starting to sound like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire! In all serious though, ask your audience. Bloggers, write a post asking the readers what they want to see from you. Ask for feedback. Let them know what you want to do and ask for ideas. Remember that the readers are the one’s keeping you going, so they will love that.
7. Go for a walk
Fresh air is a beautiful thing. Take deep breaths of it. Get your blood flowing and the ideas will come too.
8. Meditate
Just relax and let go. Go to another place. Come back once that innovation wakes you up.
9. Eat
Mmm…cheeseburger and french fries. According to The Thinking Business, proteins and carbohydrates are essential in business. They explain that carbohydrates leave you feeling “calm and relaxed” and proteins “improve mental performance”. After a good meal, your brain will be back on track.
10. Get your mind off it completely
If nothing seems to be working for you, it might be because you give yourself no down time. You give your work time, but you don’t give yourself time. YOU time is extremely important because it gets your mind off your work. You have been working so hard being innovative that you exhausted your resources. Go to the movies, play a sport, watch some movies, and then when you return to your work the next day you will feel refreshed and ready to exhaust yourself again.
You know what to do now. You have ten ways to get innovative. Now do it!
Content Credit goes to Jhon, Alex Monroe & 10 Innovative Ways To Get Yourself Out of a Mindblock.
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10 Web Ads Don’t Make Me Think – Advertising Usability
We are always talking about web usability and we shouldn’t forget about the advertisement usability. What does it mean? The way actually ads are presenting to the audience and easiest way an audience understanding or holding the main theme of the ads inside brain. When it really makes sense — how fast and easily an ads motive an customer and insisting customers to try it or buy it. Let see more.
Founded in 1987, TechSmith is the world’s leading provider of screen capture and recording software for individual and professional use. People everywhere use our products to capture content from their screens in ways that help them communicate more clearly, create engaging presentations for diverse audiences, and analyze product usability and customer experience.
With products localized into five languages and a distribution network of resellers in more than 30 countries, TechSmith’s global reach is continually expanding.
LinkedIn is a free business social networking site that allows users who register to create a professional profile visible to others. Through the site, individuals can then maintain a list of known business contacts, known as Connections. LinkedIn users can also invite anyone to join their list of connections. LinkedIn offers an effective way by which people can develop an extensive list of contacts, as your network consists of your own connections, your connections’ connections (2nd degree connections), as well as your 2nd degree’s connections (called your 3rd degree connections). From this network, individuals can learn of and search for jobs, business opportunities, and people. LinkedIn also serves as an effective medium by which both employers and job seekers can review listed professional information about one another. LinkedIn follows strict privacy guidelines wherein all connections made are mutually confirmed and individuals only appear in the LinkedIn network with their explicit consent. Other LinkedIn features include paid accounts that offer more tools to find people, and “LinkedIn Answers” developed in January 2007. A free feature, “LinkedIn Answers” allows registered users to post business-related questions that anyone else can answer.
Dell Inc. is a multinational information technology corporation that develops, sells and supports personal computers and other computer-related products, as a merchant . Based in Round Rock, Texas, Dell employed more than 76,500 people worldwide as of 2009[update].[1]
Dell grew during the 1980s and 1990s to become (for a time) the largest seller of PCs and servers. As of 2009[update] it held the third spot in computer sales within the industry behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer Inc.[2] As of 2009, the company sold personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, and computer peripherals. Dell also sells HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players and other electronics built by other manufacturers.
In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest company in the Fortune 500 list, 8th on its annual “Top 20″ list of the most-admired companies in the United States.In 2007 Dell ranked 34th and 8th respectively on the equivalent lists for the year. A 2006 publication identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P 500 that had consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America’s largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and so on. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
On January 15, 2009, a survey published by Verdict Research found that Amazon was the UK’s favorite music and video retailer, and came third in overall retail rankings.
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. As of October 2009, it claims to host more than 4 billion images.
Fast Company is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and reports on topics including innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design, and social responsibility. As of June 30, 2009, the magazine has a circulation of 723,230. Fast Company’s current editor is Bob Safian, a veteran of Fortune and Smart Money.
Fast Company was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former Harvard Business Review editors. The publication began with $550,000 in funding from 11 individuals, raised to create a prototype.
In 1997, Fast Company created an online social network, the “Company of Friends” which spawned a number of groups that began meeting in person.
In 2000, Fast Company was sold to Gruner + Jahr, majority owned by media giant Bertelsmann, for $350 million. At the time this was the second largest amount for any US magazine in history. G&J sold the magazine in 2005 and shortly thereafter exited the U.S. magazine market.
Canon Inc. (キヤノン株式会社, Kyanon Kabushiki Gaisha?, TYO: 7751, NYSE: CAJ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, photocopiers, steppers and computer printers. Its headquarters are located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.
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Bplans.com is owned and operated by Palo Alto Software, Inc. as a free resource to help entrepreneurs plan better businesses. Palo Alto Software – The Planning People – develops, publishes, and markets software products for use with personal computers. Its products offer task-oriented, “know how” solutions for small-business and home-office entrepreneurs, professionals, and middle managers. The company is a privately-owned corporation in Eugene, Oregon.
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Andrew Warner 9:09 pm on March 24, 2010 Permalink
I forgot about that one. I did that back when Mixergy was mostly about events.
Thanks for reminding me!
sakib 7:36 pm on March 31, 2010 Permalink
@Andrew thanks for the comments man. I didn’t expect that from you.