What I Learned From 2007 – John Crickett
Inquiring minds want to know: What were the most amazing, profound, surprising, or even whacky things you’ve learned over the last year?
Here’s an entry from John Crickett of Business Opportunities and Ideas, a U.K. business-oriented website:
Looking back over 2007, I’m proud to say that Business Opportunities and Ideas has come a long way since it started on 1st March. So here’s a quick recap of what I believe are the best posts from each month:
March – Play To Your Strengths which advices small business owners to focus on promoting their strengths rather than competing on on their weaknesses.
April – 12 Ways For A Small Business To Beat Tesco which explains how a small local shop can compete with the supermakets like Tesco.
May – Don’t Waste Your Marketing! Which implores you to cherish your new customers, rather than letting them slip through your fingers.
June – We Don’t Serve Chips – Customer Service With An Insult don’t make the mistake this business did by turning away business and insulting it’s customers.
July – The 5 Top Reasons To Start An Internet Business which lists five reasons why an Internet business might be fore you.
August - Selling To The Supermarkets it’s a risky business, but get it right and it could really make your business take off.
September – 10 Tactics For Finding New Business Ideas which describes ten ways to get the creative juices going so you can find some new business ideas.
October – How To Motivate Employees explains all the most common theories of employee motivation.
November – The Top Ten Internet Business Ideas which lists what I believe are the top ten internet business ideas of all time.
December - What I Would Do With $25 in which I describe the business idea I’d pursue if I only had $25 to get me started
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So what’s it all about?
Friends, if you’ve written about it at your blog in 2007, then you’re invited to join us for this special edition of What I Learned From… Care to share with us your favorite/ best/ most controversial/ strangest, etc. posts? (You get to pick one from each month you’ve been blogging in 2007.)
Well, don’t just sit there like a bump on a pickle; click the link, check out the simple instructions, and jump right in! Get your entries in by Sunday night, January 13, and I’ll publish them all right here at Middle Zone Musings.
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I think if John wants an MBA, he ought to get it from the University of P.O. Box 2000. He already knows what they’re going to be teaching; he justs needs the paperwork!
Hi, John. You’ve got some great posts there. In particular, I love the What I Would Do With $25. That one still has me thinking.
Nice to meet you, John.