This week Ulistic is hanging out with Stuart Selbst at his first ever Spring Training for Business event in Mesa, Arizona. I have to say that I have been to a number of IT conferences in the past but Stu has a great event going on here. A number of managed IT providers from across North America are investing time to build their business and learn from leaders in the small business community.
Ulistic will be sharing tomorrow at lunch on the importance of search engine optimization, social media in business and overall marketing
Thanks Stu for inviting Ulistic to participate in your awesome event. Don’t miss this next time it is being held.
Arlin Sorensen, CEO and founder of Heartland Technology Solutions and HTG peer groups, will be hosting a live meeting on March 24th for Microsoft as part of the 5W25 series on four plans to provide a well rounded look at life and business. The plans we will discuss are:
- Business plan
- Leadership plan
- Life plan
- Legacy plan
Joining for the live meeting will be Jamison West from JWCS and Brad Schow from Compudyne. The event is code WES36PAL and it will be held at 9:00 AM Pacific that day. The session is titled Four Plans That Can Change Everything and that is exactly the potential outcome from the session.
If you learn to use these plans, you can change the result of your life and business. Without planning, you leave things up to chance and quite honestly have far less opportunity to achieve your dreams or succeed. We often spend a lot of time focused on our business plan but neglect the things that may be more important. Never forget your life will leave a record, a history and a legacy. Planning can help make sure those turn out as you would like.
Invest an hour and join me for this webcast. To register go to www.mssmallbiz.com/training and select the appropriate session. There are many other great sessions available as well. Hope to meet with you online that day!
Has this ever happened to you? You go to your Chamber of Commerce luncheon or networking event and out of the blue some guy in a slick and shiny suit gives you their business card for no reason at all telling you to call them if you need to buy whatever they have to push. I have to ask, why are you giving me your card and what makes you think I will do business with you in the first place?
I have been following some of the networking tips shared by Bob Burg over the past little while about networking etiquette and what is acceptable bahaviour when it comes to handing out your business card at events, lunches etc. Well, according to all the experts and networking gurus they state “never give out your card until someone asks for it”. Good advice in my opinion.
This same approach can spill over to the online world. Especially one of my favourite business to business sites, LinkedIn. Why do some people reach out to you when you really have no relationship? There are legitimate people out there looking for help or advice, great this is what social networking is all about. Some maybe looking to sell to you, this is what social networking is not about.
Therefore, if you are reaching out to sell something using online social technologies, don’t. If you are looking at linking up with some to build a network, share experiences, share client needs or seek help or advice….make sure you state that in your request. You will have a better chance of successfully building your online and face-to-face networks.
Don’t through your card in someone’s face…wait for them to ask for it.
Some old-fashioned techniques just never seem to go away when they should just curl up in a ball and disappear.
Yep, the number of emails I get daily now since I made the move from a Calgary Small Business Computer Consultant to my new gig working with the business community in Calgary helping many small to midsize corporations with online marketing, social media strategies and search engine optimization have drastically increased.
So no, I don’t want to exchange your garbage links with you! Just because my clients have great page rank doesn’t allow you to spam me asking to exchange links. That is so 1999 of you. It simply never works out to be a fair trade anyways.
Go out there and earn your links the right way. Offer real information that people would love to share, blog about or retweet…but don’t email me asking for a link from my website to yours. The answer is NO, if you even get an answer from me.
SaaS Opportunities are opening up in Asia
Calgary International Trade Broker, AvGlobe had just successfully obtained a mandate to provide 100 to 200 software providers using software as a service – cloud computing in Singapore as part of Singapore’s drive to be a IT Hub of southeast Asia. This initiative is supported by the various business chambers and associations in Singapore.
Currently, the cloud computing platform had consistent supporters of around 3000+ small / medium businesses. The softwares of interests would be any customisable business associated software such as accounting, invoicing, payroll, sales/lead generation, customer resource management, supply chain management, remote desktop, process management, project planning and management and much more.
For more information contact Alan Tay from AvGlobe Consulting Inc.
Life has a funny way of coming around eh?
I used to think in order to be a real leader you needed to be in front of the room, the one leading the group, being in charge, organizing the events and so on…
Boy was I wrong!
Sometimes a real leader comes from the back of the room, the quiet one, the one that when they speak they have something to say…and so on. The real leader is the one who is there for you when you don’t need them, but also when you do. The real leader understands the importance of the big picture, a real leader doesn’t scoff with smart ass comments but digs deep to see the relevance of the big picture.
Thanks for the wake up this morning!
