What Really Generates Referrals
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- Make people look good
- Keeps promises
- Creates an experience
- Educates, instead of selling
- Adds value beyond price
- Does something talkable
- Exceeds expectations
Focus on even one of the internal mindsets and practices above and watch how much more referable you become.
Next Time Your Restaurant Service Sucks, Try This
One Company Exists Just To Market Your Golf Inventions
You want to know how many golf inventors there are? Just find out how many golfers there are, and you’ll have the answer. One company just opened its door to all those inventors.
Fairways International LLC is a licensing and distribution company that will sign all the right documents to insure that your invention is protected from theft when you allow the company to review your idea. Its staff
and consultants are intimately familiar with the world of golf from every angle and, if they think they can market your product they’ll do all the legwork from assisting you with filing patents to getting your product on golf courses all over the world.
What does Fairways International charge you, the golf inventor? Nothing. And that’s the way it should be.
A Start-up Takes on Wal-Mart
Recently-launched Alice.com is Brian Wiegand’s fourth Internet start-up, but the first to take on the consumer-packaged goods industry.
Brian Wiegand is no stranger to start-ups. His first business, BizFilings, launched in 1996 from his basement and later sold for $15 million to a public company. He and business partner Mark McGuire went on to start two others. The most recent was Jellyfish.com, which caught the purchasing eye of Microsoft only 18 months after its inception. The two could have stayed after the sale, but decided corporate life wasn’t for them.
Now the duo has launched their fourth online company, Alice.com, an online service in the consumer packaged goods industry. The site connects manufacturers directly to consumers, bypassing large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target. Wiegand, Alice’s CEO, and McGuire, the company’s president and co-founder, recently explained their slightly unorthodox business model to Inc..
Read the interview at inc.com.
Start Up Competition in Silicon Valley
You might call it the “American Idol” competition of the entrepreneur set, as young inventors from all over the world are competing at Cisco in Santa Clara.
It’s called the Global Business Plan Competition, and it’s co-sponsored by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Sixteen teams of university students from throughout the world are competing for $250,000 in investment money for their inventions and creations.
For example, Stanford student Peter Frickman, who runs the start up Drip Tech, which is an inexpensive drip irrigation system for small farmers around the world.
One of the judges, venture capitalist Tim Draper points out that many successful companies are started in recessions.
”If you are a true entrepreneur this is the time to start a business,” said Draper. “You have to get creative because there isn’t always going to be money available.”
Other business plans include a more efficient way for companies to manage e-mail, and a way to convert rice husks into energy.
Bee all you can bee
Young entrepreneurs ditch the cubicle for a whole new take on office space
Amazing “Hibi no neiro” video
The video was shot for Sour’s Hibi no Neiro (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album Water Flavor EP. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely with a webcam.
