Startup entrepreneurs and investors like to see data displayed so that it can be understood. Here’s a quick flowchart of how to display your information to get across to your audience. You can read about it here:
Or download it here:
This can be especially good if you are in front of others who are looking at your business.
Hey all,
Take a look at Amazon’s Customer Discussion about Mac business planning and see what my comments are concerning this part of a business.
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I have another interview with BlogTalkRadio, this time with Donna Amos on her BlogTalkRadio/SoloTalk show about things which I like to talk about, Macs and entrepreneurs. Here’s Donna’s pitch:
Helping solopreneurs grow their businesses with tips and resources from the experiences of our successful solopreneur guests. Learn, grow and laugh with us. The show is sponsored by the International Association of Solopreneurs http://www.solopreneurs.org
It’s at 12 Noon EST for 30 minutes, so plan on listening in on the recording.
If you’re interested in hearing me explain how entrepreneurs and startups can use the Mac in their business, check out the Hollis Chapman Show and my interview with Hollis discussing Macs used in startups. I had a great time talking with him and his listeners about Macs in startups. You’ll get a great feel for what it takes to get started in your own business. I discuss why use a Mac, how to make money using a Mac, how to set up your business and get your first customer, how to use the Mac’s built-in software to advertise using a Mac, and other questions. Check it out.
Here’s what we were discussing for about 45 minutes:
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View all of your endeavors, whether you intend on writing a book, opening up a business, or trying something new that you’ve never done before, as an experiment. Why?
Let me tell you about Thomas Edison’s perspective of doing things which can be directly applied to entrepreneurship if you listen to his words.
It has been known that Edison tried thousands of experiments before he came up with the answer for solving the incandesent light bulb. Now notice what he did. If Edison had tried one experiment, the same experiment over and over, and failed, we can see him being a failure. Often we see this as being persistent. But what did Edison really do?
He tried one experiment and it failed. He changed and tried another experiment and it failed. He tried thousands of ways of coming up with a light bulb and all of them failed. Finally, one day, the found the answer to his quest and found the formula to inventing the light bulb.
Later in life an interviewer said to him if he had not found the answers he was looking for and had not invented the light bulb what would he be doing now? He said, “Not sitting here with you in this interview, but I’d be in my lab figuring it out right now!”
He says it correctly, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Life is to be a grand experiment, not to be shirked away from.
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” Thomas A. Edison
As an entrepreneur, you consider everything regarding your product and service. In doing your marketing, have you considered the colors your choose?
In this web article How Color Affects Our Purchases [infographic] you’ll see how colors affect our purchases, which should hopefully affect how you intend to sell your product or service. This includes the color schemes of your brochures, web site, book cover, etc.
Oh, and what about small little icons? Here’s a neat little treat about Apple’s icons in this article Apple icon secrets: Hidden meaning hiding in plain sight, oh, and the level of detail that is used.
Hope this helps you with your business marketing.
Hey all,
The New Year is upon is and so are changes in the wind. MacGetIT.com has changes coming. We’re changing our domain name, which became available in October of 2010, to MacStartup.com. We’re excited about the domain name change as it better reflects what we’re about: Starting a business using your Mac.
As with any change, it has a domino affect across all aspects of a business, from web links to business cards, to email addresses and notifying others of the change. Change in inevitable and requires work, but if you don’t change, you’ll be left behind.
Here’s to a new year!!
