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Birth (the spinning force, public) => New Beginnings => Topic started by: Butterfly Lightning on October 14, 2009, 05:31:12 PM
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Innovation
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The Purple Cow by Seth Godin
You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tired 'P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed -Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few-aren't working anymore.
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The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley
The Learning Personas
Individuals and organizations need to constantly gather new sources of information in order to expand their knowledge and grow, so the first three personas are learning roles. These personas are driven by the idea that no matter how successful a company currently is, no one can afford to be complacent. The world is changing at an accelerated pace, and today's great idea may be tomorrow's anachronism. The learning roles help keep your team from becoming too internally focused, and remind the organization not to be so smug about what you “know”. People who adopt the learning roles are humble enough to question their own worldview, and in doing so they remain open to new insights every day.
The Anthropologist is rarely stationary. Rather, this is the person who ventures into the field to observe how people interact with products, services, and experiences in order to come up with new innovations. The Anthropologist is extremely good at reframing a problem in a new way, humanizing the scientific method to apply it to daily life. Anthropologists share such distinguishing characteristics as the wisdom to observe with a truly open mind; empathy; intuition; the ability to "see" things that have gone unnoticed; a tendency to keep running lists of innovative concepts worth emulating and problems that need solving; and a way of seeking inspiration in unusual places.
The Experimenter celebrates the process, not the tool, testing and retesting potential scenarios to make ideas tangible. A calculated risk-taker, this person models everything from products to services to proposals in order to efficiently reach a solution. To share the fun of discovery, the Experimenter invites others to collaborate, while making sure that the entire process is saving time and money.
The Cross-Pollinator draws associations and connections between seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts to break new ground. Armed with a wide set of interests, an avid curiosity, and an aptitude for learning and teaching, the Cross-Pollinator brings in big ideas from the outside world to enliven their organization. People in this role can often be identified by their open mindedness, diligent note-taking, tendency to think in metaphors, and ability to reap inspiration from constraints.
The Organizing Personas
The next three personas are organizing roles, played by individuals who are savvy about the often counter-intuitive process of how organizations move ideas forward. At IDEO, we used to believe that the ideas should speak for themselves. Now we understand what the Hurdler, the Collaborator, and the Director have known all along: that even the best ideas must continuously compete for time, attention, and resources. Those who adopt these organizing roles don't dismiss the process of budget and resource allocation as “politics” or “red tape.” They recognize it as a complex game of chess, and they play to win.
The Hurdler is a tireless problem-solver who gets a charge out of tackling something that's never been done before. When confronted with a challenge, the Hurdler gracefully sidesteps the obstacle while maintaining a quiet, positive determination. This optimism and perseverance can help big ideas upend the status quo as well as turn setbacks into an organization's greatest successes—despite doomsday forecasting by shortsighted experts.
The Collaborator is the rare person who truly values the team over the individual. In the interest of getting things done, the Collaborator coaxes people out of their work silos to form multidisciplinary teams. In doing so, the person in this role dissolves traditional boundaries within organizations and creates opportunities for team members to assume new roles. More of a coach than a boss, the Collaborator instills their team with the confidence and skills needed to complete the shared journey.
The Director has an acute understanding of the bigger picture, with a firm grasp on the pulse of their organization. Subsequently, the Director is talented at setting the stage, targeting opportunities, bringing out the best in their players, and getting things done. Through empowerment and inspiration, the person in this role motivates those around them to take center stage and embrace the unexpected.
The Building Personas
The four remaining personas are building roles that apply insights from the learning roles and channel the empowerment from the organizing roles to make innovation happen. When people adopt the building personas, they stamp their mark on your organization. People in these roles are highly visible, so you’ll often find them right at the heart of the action.
The Experience Architect is that person relentlessly focused on creating remarkable individual experiences. This person facilitates positive encounters with your organization through products, services, digital interactions, spaces, or events. Whether an architect or a sushi chef, the Experience Architect maps out how to turn something ordinary into something distinctive—even delightful—every chance they get.
The Set Designer looks at every day as a chance to liven up their workspace. They promote energetic, inspired cultures by creating work environments that celebrate the individual and stimulate creativity. To keep up with shifting needs and foster continuous innovation, the Set Designer makes adjustments to a physical space to balance private and collaborative work opportunities. In doing so, this person makes space itself one of an organization's most versatile and powerful tools.
The Storyteller captures our imagination with compelling narratives of initiative, hard work, and innovation. This person goes beyond oral tradition to work in whatever medium best fits their skills and message: video, narrative, animation, even comic strips. By rooting their stories in authenticity, the Storyteller can spark emotion and action, transmit values and objectives, foster collaboration, create heroes, and lead people and organizations into the future.
The Caregiver is the foundation of human-powered innovation. Through empathy, they work to understand each individual customer and create a relationship. Whether a nurse in a hospital, a salesperson in a retail shop, or a teller at an international financial institution, the Caregiver guides the client through the process to provide them with a comfortable, human-centered experience
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Can one design a product or create a service that actually takes the attention through *matter* but towards spirit?
The great Networking systems of our time; Google, Facebook, MSN, Twitter etc all allow a great integration of attention through people. They are Hubs. But this doesn't necesserily weave the threads of attention towards spirit.
This just makes me think of our jobs, our Businesses or Companies that we work for. The day takes up such a large portion of time & attention. But I guess that even the best innovatively focused Companies won't give up the standard order of vibration, which is matter, action, talk & thought. This builds it all and so one can profit, make money, survive and construct ideas. I am therefore guessing that to have both, so that spirit and matter can come into our attention in our daily work is the only way it will work.
Hey, let us know when you get there...
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Suddenly, the oldest brands are no longer the fast growing brands. *Established in 1906* used to be important. Now apparently its a liability.
Suddenly, the most experienced businesspeople are no longer the most successful ones. And suddenly, the safest jobs are not so safe anymore. Playing it safe has become the new 'risky'. *good enough* stopped being good enough a long time ago so why not be remarkable?
There are new Shapers around now and these aren't always and often not Managers.
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www.amberbow.com (http://www.amberbow.com)
Facebook Name: Amber Bow
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So, what are you marketing?
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I don't mind links and discussion of your own site, or discussions generally around the principles of marketing - why and how we would want to do it etc. But I will have to delete any marketing material for other people or companies, unless it is within the context of making an argument.
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No Worries...
Facebook seems to be the Adi-Forum
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Hey Michael, would you like me to create a Restless Soma page on facebook? Not a group, but a page. Kris has one called The Toltec Nagual - A Path of Elegance with 776 fans. This isn't much as such but I think when it starts getting in the thousands it can become confusing with wall posts etc. Depends on his intent with it. I bet you anything he uses it to network his courses to more people.
Pages are different from Groups. Don Miguel Ruiz has a page with 4,523 fans
Not sure if you use facebook yourself. With a page, we users can link to it by becoming fans. The odd post could be copied over, a link placed there and who knows, you may get some new users for the actual forum
I've created a few applications, groups and pages.
Applications:
>Should I learn how to meditate?
>What part of the medicine wheel do you belong to?
Groups:
>2nd Mask Sorcery
>Taisha Abelar
>Florinda Donner Grau
>Medicine Wheel
Pages:
>Dan Glasheen's Artwork
>Golden Threads > Knowledge glowing
Profiles:
I also have 2 profiles, one as Dan Glasheen which I used to use for all things but have now pruned down as it was mixing too many things. And Amber Shield which I use to act seperately from family, friends, co-workers etc group of people
The idea of me posting the link to the book under the Innovation thread is that it is a good tool. I'm reading the book at the moment so am trying a few things out. My own site is unser development but all this is to express innovation, new ways of working and networking and tuning into the times.
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I was thinking the other day, knowing how to operate a computer and how to network and link up our intent has become the new way > knowing how to work a computer is becoming or has become more important that how to operate a car.
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The book is broken into the following chapters:
1 ) Targeting your profile
2 ) Facebook groups
3 ) Creating your own pages
4 ) Hosting your own facebook events
5 ) Introducing advertising
6 ) Optimising & monitoring your advertising
7 ) Using the marketplace
8 ) Beacon, polls & networks
9 ) Facebook applications
10 ) Developing your own applications
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So, what are you marketing?
Nothing. This is hardly a marketing forum.
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The book is broken into the following chapters:
1 ) Targeting your profile
2 ) Facebook groups
3 ) Creating your own pages
4 ) Hosting your own facebook events
5 ) Introducing advertising
6 ) Optimising & monitoring your advertising
7 ) Using the marketplace
8 ) Beacon, polls & networks
9 ) Facebook applications
10 ) Developing your own applications
D,
Can you see the two most important aspects that are missing from the above listing?
Also, I do understand this is just an index, yet, it's coming from a perspective that is much less effective than it could be. Do you see this?
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Nothing. This is hardly a marketing forum.
You think?
I see it as Exactly marketing and advertising.
What else could it be?
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D,
Can you see the two most important aspects that are missing from the above listing?
Also, I do understand this is just an index, yet, it's coming from a perspective that is much less effective than it could be. Do you see this?
No, please illuminate
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First and foremost, I've got to know exactly what I am doing, or am going to do. What do I want to do? What's my purpose? What's my goal?
I'm a massage therapist. That's a pretty broad title. I focus in on what I love and what I'm great at. I'm a specialist in sciatica, upper back, neck and shoulder discomfort, as well as migrane headache relief. Each of these area's have their own USP or Unique Selling Proposition.
If I don't know exactly what I'm doing, how do I determine my target market, or effectively complete anything else on that list?
This always reminds me of a comment in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:
Alice came to a fork in the road.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?"
responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
Second, is building and developing relationships. I see building and developing relationships as a bit seperate. Building relationships is when we meet people and get to know them. Developing them is just that...taking it further, deeper. Huge difference. If you don't believe me, look at your own relationships.
Developing relationships is an art. Oh, it's simple enough with those you share similiar interests with and can see eye to eye with. On the other hand, when someone makes your blood boil....(insert all that CC stuff here.)
Developing relationships ties into the third point, which is get inside Their mind. What are they looking for? What do they want? Reading the above mentioned index it reads, "Develop YOUR this or that, create YOUR this or that, etc., etc." Obviously you need to figure out what you are doing in step one mentioned above, but then switch sides. Look at it from your prospects point of view. Are you delivering what THEY want, or only providing what you want disguised or in delusion of what they want? Perception is reality, and if what you are dishing out doesn't jibe with what they want....
These are critical in person as I've found out.
It's even more critical on-line, as the communication is limited to what you write. Others can't see your tone or body language.
Why I jumped in here is that you mention Facebook. I wrote about this on my wall. (Here, not on FB.) I've been working on this for quite some time and have found these two points mentioned above to be critical.
Everyone likes to buy yet no-one likes to be sold. It doesn't matter if it's marketing material to massage therapists or discussing Buddha. If you write on the Internet you are projecting yourself. We are all marketing, advertising, convincing, coniving, manipulating, gaining attention, wanting attention, giving attention, etc., etc.
Accept it....just understand what it is you are doing and why you are doing it.
I'm having a ball with this. I can see it on my daily comments on FB. What super-duper special comment that I've been working on and that is important to me gets just a few comments. I post something else that was just a vague thought crossing my mind, 52 thumbs up and 74 replies in less than a day. <chuckles> It's a great exercise in looking at what Others are working on, getting off the, "me, me, me," all the time.
What was mentioned in that index on how to market on FB is required reading, but it's just the basics.
The real work starts when you start building and developing relationships and studying people. If we only just study people we can learn a ton!
Oh, one last point I forgot to mention above in regards to 'selling' is this: What are you selling, promoting, attempting to convince others of?
No-thing.
Again, doesn't matter if it's Carlos Castaneda's work one is discussing or truly 'selling' massage marketing tips to fellow massage therapists.
The magick is not it "IT." The magick is ME. "I" am selling myself.
If I build and develop relationships, which the core of this is built on trust, then I gain loyalty.
Sounds really simple, eh? "Gee Kris, I already know this." Could be, but are you Doing it? Very few walk the walk. Those that perform this correctly are very successful in every aspect of their lives. Those that don't, keep sitting around scratching their heads, doing what they keep on doing, thinking how much smarter they are than everyone else, wondering how the magick occurs, etc., etc.
Of course that's a huge topic for another time...but really a topic worth discussing. It's actually critical if you want to have any meaningful interaction with others.
Hasta,
Kristopher
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Great feedback Kris, many thanks
Will keep this in mind as I start moving out and planting what I intend to develop
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So, what are you marketing?
I'm not really marketing as yet.
An important factor to start positive change in our lives is for there to be passion, a powerful force that leads us, a final goal that keeps us motivated. There is a kindling taking place with me in many areas. It is always about going into more detail on part of the overall tapestry and working things out. Re-aliging the overall vision and making things move > will
Intrestingly my day job requires me to Coordinate one of our major contracts and I act as a support for the Operational part of our Company. I have never seen so many changes in a Company within a year. Regardless, recently I am being asked to get involved in producing Tenders for new contracts and will be getting more involved now with the Sales & Marketing part of the Company.
There is so much I am learning from working in my current Company just as there is so much I learnt in previous ones. I am reaching a time now where I wish to bring my own virtues to the front and will evetually Market more what I do.
My current developement is one the one hand learning about Management and managing life really (stalking), and on the other hand learning about myself and my character and noting key things about Innovation & Innovators (also stalking).
On the Management front I have read a great set of books by Richard Templar, have you read any of his *The Rules of ...*
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What else could it be?
This is a swimming teaching forum.
We teach people here how to swim.
Swimming is everything, didn't you know?
If you can't swim, you drown.
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This is a swimming teaching forum.
We teach people here how to swim.
Swimming is everything, didn't you know?
If you can't swim, you drown.
I've always had a fear of drowning...thinking it would be a most horrible way to die.
Is there a Good way to die?
Will today be that day??
kris
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...have you read any of his *The Rules of ...*
No, have not read this book.
K
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Is there a Good way to die?
Strange you should ask - yes, apparently there is:
drowning.
As reported by those who have done it.
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Breakthroughs and drips
There are only two ways to win in the market.
You can create a breakthrough. A promotion so powerful that people can't help but engage. An innovation so remarkable, people can't help but talk about it. A pricing strategy or ad campaign that breaks the mold and is worthy of attention. This takes huge guts and substantial investment.
Or you can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust. This might take years.
Almost all marketing attempts to do neither of these, and of course, fail. Painless and quick are rarely associated with 'successful.'
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This is a swimming teaching forum.
We teach people here how to swim.
Swimming is everything, didn't you know?
If you can't swim, you drown.
Smiles...
So; does someone sink when they decide to leave the forum, what is the structure of the swimming lessons, are people given badges for attaining a certain level, who are the swimming teachers, where are the pupils, and... how do you know when someone has learnt how to swim?
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Moon in Pisces, Sun in Taurus, Jupiter in Aries:
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Vibrations
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Strange you should ask - yes, apparently there is:
drowning.
As reported by those who have done it.
Is it true that once you've drown you tell no lies?
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Strange you should ask - yes, apparently there is:
drowning.
As reported by those who have done it.
How could they report it if they're dead? NDE?
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yes, there have been numerous cases - some even after serious total malfunction.
The common experience is that once the suffocation stage is passed, they just breath water, and like the 'sweet death' of ice, somehow water has this way of smoothing the passage.
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Teaching the market a lesson
Some book publishers don't like the Kindle. Either they're afraid of it or they've crunched the numbers and they don't like what they see. (Some days, 95% of the top selling Kindle titles are free... demonstrating that digital goods with zero marginal cost and plentiful substitutes tend to move to zero in price).
Worried about the medium, they hold back, delay or even refuse to support it.
Which is fine if you have market power, but you likely don't. No publisher does, certainly. The Beatles couldn't stop iTunes from changing the record business by sitting out the platform, and there's no book publisher who can stop the Kindle alone.
It's tempting to look at a high-momentum market innovation, something that brings efficiency but leaves change in its wake, and try to stop it single-handedly. Tempting, but not so smart, I think. The market waits for no one.
The alternative to joining in is to sit out the game loudly. Don't just hold back your support, organize your peers. Create a (sometimes illegal) coordinated effort to stop innovation. I'm not going to bet much on your efforts, but it will certainly outperform a solo effort.
Quiet, passive-aggressive whining in the corner is both annoying and ineffective.
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www.amberbow.com (http://www.amberbow.com)
Facebook Name: Amber Bow
Daniel - looks slick.
You should standardise font - you have a mix of serif and sans-serif. Better to stick to Arial.
One problem is that the name of the site, Amber Bow, is not prominent - leaves one wondering about whose place this is.
I suggest to mock up a Photoshop image for Amber Bow and shove it in the viewer's face and at top, so they'll never forget it. if you do want to be more stylish, at least don't hide it in white on a pale background - looks like you are unsure of yourself.
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Amber Bow Art Studios > New sample sheet has been created today so email d.glasheen@gmail.com and get one sent over...
(Although I need to redo it as I realised I spelt Whale wrong, oops...)
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I see we are linking up on Twitter now, anyone know it well and can share how they've been using it? I know the basics, but have used it minimally.
Looks like one can link facebook *pages* that one has created up to twitter
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Daniel - looks slick.
You should standardise font - you have a mix of serif and sans-serif. Better to stick to Arial.
One problem is that the name of the site, Amber Bow, is not prominent - leaves one wondering about whose place this is.
I suggest to mock up a Photoshop image for Amber Bow and shove it in the viewer's face and at top, so they'll never forget it. if you do want to be more stylish, at least don't hide it in white on a pale background - looks like you are unsure of yourself.
Thanks for feedback M,
Yep its kind of in transit, it is in an unsure state at the moment as the site I signed up with offer templates for your site. These aren't such a great range. Ideally I'd like to get a proper site done where someone can design it to match what I have in mind, and allow options like, add to cart.
I have produced a costings sheet format for pricing work and decided to just price up what I have. I plan to also do commissions & prints and actually expand the type of work I do as well.
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God I feel sorry for you guys who have to labour beneath template'd offerings. But I do understand - and I just don't know what to suggest as obviously you are limited to their parameters.
Here is a site I did for a friend earlier this year - typical artist's site:
http://sandylockwood.com.au/
They now modify it themselves to keep it up to date. I did it in the old style - with tables - so they would be better able to do their own mods.
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God I feel sorry for you guys who have to labour beneath template'd offerings. But I do understand - and I just don't know what to suggest as obviously you are limited to their parameters.
Here is a site I did for a friend earlier this year - typical artist's site:
http://sandylockwood.com.au/
They now modify it themselves to keep it up to date. I did it in the old style - with tables - so they would be better able to do their own mods.
I like the site you designed.
Feel sorry for us? I doubt it....Hehehe....
I sure don't. We have our row to hoe...and do it however we do it.
I see it as a great learning opportunity.
Once I've learned 'the system,' I can then upload my own HTML and create a site 'outside the building blocks,' even with SBI's system. Many do this. I'm just a little slow on the uptake....
8)
Peace....
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Happy to concider any offer of website designing
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I should point out that I don't normally do web design, because it really is a specialised field these days. It is all about fashions in style, and I don't keep up to date on fashions. My web design area is in the field of dynamic sites - database driven sites. That is ultra usability - all fancy boarders and slick images are not my area.
Not to say I don't have an opinion. I am not a fan of the 'modern' style of web site because it is too soulless for my tastes, but that very quality (albeit under a different term - cool) is exactly what is required these days to appeal to the new generations. I don't agree with the direction global society is going, and frankly I don't like it. But I do accept that is what is happening, and if you want to run with the pack, best you learn the current modes.
If you want a rule of thumb - make it as impersonal as you can, minimal yet slick, grey colours with a touch of green-blue barely visible. Make it look like no people exist to inhabit. No commitment, no reality.
But not for baby-ware or masseurs. Those are still in the human dimension, so they still like the friendly look - but not too much.
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Hey Daniel,
Nice website ... I like your style. Sterile ... yet warm ;)
I was checking out your keywords. Most of them are very broad ranged ... low value/profitability. The only one I found that had some umph to it, was "sahaja yoga". You may want to change the specific keyword (first keyword) on that page to this.
Ang
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What if your organization or your client has done nothing?
What if they've just watched the last fourteen years go by? No real
website, no social media, no permission assets. What if now they're
ready and they ask your advice? And, by the way, they have no real
cash to spend...
Here's a list of my top ten things to consider doing:
- Use gmail to give every person in the organization that can read
English an email address.
- Use a free website creating tool or even Squidoo to build a page
about your company. Nothing fancy, but list your locations, your
people (with addresses) and make it clear you want to hear from
people.
- Start an email newsletter using Mad Mimi or Mail Chimp. Give the
responsibility for the newsletter's creation and performance to one
person and offer them a bonus if they exceed metrics in sign ups and
in reducing churn.
- Start a book group for your top executives and every person who
answers the phone, designs a product or interacts with customers. Read
a great online media book a week and discuss. It'll take you about a
year to catch up.
- Offer a small bonus to anyone in the company who starts and runs a
blog on any topic. Have them link to your company site, with an
explanation that while they work there, they don't speak for you.
- Have the president post her (real) email address in every invoice
and other communication the company sends out, asking people to write
to her with comments or questions.
- Start a newsletter for your vendors. Email them regular updates
about what you're doing, what's selling and what problems are going on
internally that they might be able to help you with.
- Do not approve any project that isn't run on Basecamp.
- Get a white board and put it in the break room. On it, have someone
update: how many people subscribe to the newsletter, how many people
visit the website, how many inbound requests come in by phone, how
long it takes customer service to answer an email and how often your
brand names are showing up on Twitter every day.
- Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff.
First you have to fail, then you can improve.
- Refuse to cede the work to consultants. You don't outsource your
drill press or your bookkeeping or your product design. If you're
going to catch up, you must (all of you) get good at this, and you
only accomplish that by doing it.
The problem is no longer budget. The problem is no longer access to tools.
The problem is the will to get good at it.
Seth Godin
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Hey Daniel,
Nice website ... I like your style. Sterile ... yet warm ;)
I was checking out your keywords. Most of them are very broad ranged ... low value/profitability. The only one I found that had some umph to it, was "sahaja yoga". You may want to change the specific keyword (first keyword) on that page to this.
Ang
Thanks Ang,
Its certainly not a finished product > more a kind of *well what have I got at the moment, ok here...
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I should point out that I don't normally do web design, because it really is a specialised field these days. It is all about fashions in style, and I don't keep up to date on fashions. My web design area is in the field of dynamic sites - database driven sites. That is ultra usability - all fancy boarders and slick images are not my area.
Not to say I don't have an opinion. I am not a fan of the 'modern' style of web site because it is too soulless for my tastes, but that very quality (albeit under a different term - cool) is exactly what is required these days to appeal to the new generations. I don't agree with the direction global society is going, and frankly I don't like it. But I do accept that is what is happening, and if you want to run with the pack, best you learn the current modes.
If you want a rule of thumb - make it as impersonal as you can, minimal yet slick, grey colours with a touch of green-blue barely visible. Make it look like no people exist to inhabit. No commitment, no reality.
But not for baby-ware or masseurs. Those are still in the human dimension, so they still like the friendly look - but not too much.
Nice, I like what you said about the minumal yet slick, grey or greeny-blue. The thing is I just have templates to chose from, mostly with pictures of people on which is really not what I want. So ignoring all the ones with food or people in there are just few left
>I've made a few adjustments, changed the template and corrected the scrappy font differing... although there is a section of stubborn text on one page that doesn't want to change. The only thing is, the 2 photos of people on the template...
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I've just realised that if I upgrade I can get RSS feed and e-shop/ add to cart things I think...
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I've just realised that if I upgrade I can get RSS feed and e-shop/ add to cart things I think...
Just use pay pal for a cart, it's free. RSS feed was included in our set-up ... at SBI! (http://magic.sitesell.com/saccobambino.html), but shop around ... my experience with a la carte companies is that they're more expensive. Just like the restaurants ;)
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2 observed movements or occurrences
1st the energy gets stirred up, which dislodges it from where it was stuck & stagnant.
What I mean is an event, another person or the world creates a knock of some sort that stirs up the energy in our cocoon or personal sphere. This dislodges our constant or normal way of assembling ourselves and can stir the energy up and dislodge it. This usual assemblage is very often there from habit and makes our energy stagnant, like water at the bottom of a tank that never gets to flow into a stream.
Some of us interact with others and stir the energy up. Not from a fixed intent to be tricky or bothersome to others, but just as a natural cause of nature like the wind that blows through us.
2nd is that you, me, whoever has a choice to either let it filter back to where it was and start projecting the same reality, or actually redirect our energy & use it, give it a vehicle, aim it towards purposeful action.
What happens 99% of the time is that the event happens, we get offended and our emotions defend our normal status or surface fears of not wanting to change and we then revert instantly back to our normal assemblage.
What can happen in the 1%, if we use it is that we continue the power in a flow to redirect the energy that has become dislodged.
Sometimes it can happen the other way around too. Where we have a momentum with a good cycle of purposeful action but an event or clash with someone else’s energy sphere dislodges us and we revert back to an older assemblage where we are no longer creating that cycle of redirecting
I am doing 4 projects this year that relate to the 4 corners of my own medicine wheel.
Our personal medicine wheel is only ever placement of our personal power in alignment to the 4 core orientations outside our sphere that map from the earth. And they build onto that.
The 1st of these 4 projects is very almost ready to share and is in e-brochure form. These 4 are basically me approaching each of my 4 corners, one at a time, and releasing a dream scene into the world which is vibrating my connection to that point. It is an expression yes, but it is also an orientation.
When I get to the 4th book which will be about wind, I will be looking at topics that are similar to this focus here in the above post.
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nifty analysis Butter Fly.
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nifty analysis Butter Fly.
Cheers M,
May I post the below >>> I am emailing a free e-brochure of my most recent work with the below template. Yes it is marketing as there are products one can buy but it is also a free gift. Anyone interested please let me know
Email reads as
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Dear Friend,
Please find attached my project that I have been working on for a while.
Initially it is a set of 15 paintings. It is also a story, a book, a dream, a set of canvas prints, an e-brochure and catalogue of products, some hand-made small crafts and a set of connections to people. It is a gift & a catalogue or brochure. It is a gift because anyone can read it and look at all the images. It can be shared without any purchases taking place. Rather than linking to a familiar or unfamiliar website it is a project of its own with its own momentum.
Please feel free to share this gift of art, to enquire about any products or contact the creator of these works simply to give feedback
Please note: You’ll need the most up to date version of acrobat adobe reader so it goes to the images as you move cursor over the icons. To download this please go to:
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
Kind Regards
Daniel
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As a Stalker I am an amount of awareness that has incarnated into a
sphere containing it, and that sphere perceives.
This is the Abstract form...
Just like how a field of wheat is processed into bread we are cultivated as human awareness to provide our personal power with a form of usefullness.
As we meet each other and walk through each other we are allowed to use that distilled moment to share ourselves as a gift to the other. We know the glow of the Self and are looking for ways to share. If we hate the Self then we often look to cause trouble and make wars instead.
Like reeds of awareness within a sphere, swaying to the winds of power we exist and have been given an amoun of life. This awareness is alive and lives life according to the rules of organic beings.
I am a human male no different from the other human males on the planet.
I have 5 animal Totems that mark out my Sun-Body. This Sun-Body is a just me but also a group awareness that is shared and interacted with. It is connected as I fire arrows of awareness/ my self towards aspects of the creation that exist outside of my personal sphere.
The Hawk is the crown of the sun tents that governs my acts of stalking, stalking simply meaning how I handle the items of this current world. It means the same as hunting but includes more functions.
The Dog, Coyote, Fox and Wolf also mark out my 4 corners in regards to the sun. Whether this is something that has always been there for me or a thing I made up makes little difference.
We may shape our awareness by intending ourself and acting, thus pouring our energy into a thing which moves us. Our activities align things and cultivate a usefullness from our awareness. As we seek and stimulate interaction from each other we get to hear the story that the other is telling about their own self, about their own awareness as a body and a being and a human form. We are this, no doubt. But we can use any form we want in our story. the point is to give a vehicle to our awareness.
The tallons of the hawk grip onto the contractual aspect of anything I am engaged in, and its wings give flight to the opperational aspect of the projects I do.
The Hawk is the map and it changes depending on what is going on.
The hawk has 2 other forms, one is a Bow and one is an Arrow. These change places all the time between what is being fired from the bow and what remains as the actual bow itself.
What I actually do in the world as a job, as my art, as personal work, as development in myself or others is managed by this aspect of the Sun-Body.
As I hunt my world or 'version of the world' through acts and descriptions, I place things in an alignment with a governing force within me which I name 'Will'
Will as an element is not all about drive and pushing. Will can be soft and it is worth taking note of a) the will that moves the awareness within our sphere and b) the will that moves everything that exists outside our sphere
As the Sun exists outside our sphere up in the sky, so too does it exist within our personal sphere and we use it as it eveloves through us and cultivates our reeds of awareness. We are the field but we are also the Sun, like the Head-Gardener in charge of our cultivation.
What ever clothes, dressing, form, direction or construct we give to our Sun Body is part of our manifestation and embodiment according to our relationship with the material world. The Sun nourishes us and gives life to the wheat, to the reeds, to the fibres... Hopefully this description is not to abstract to be clearly seen in its meaning.
Being rooted in the abstract but unable to manage, handle, intend, direct and hunt means we do not have strong Stalking Awareness or have not been taught by a stalker to enable us to be.
Stalking means we are doing something about our knowledge. We are introspecting and transfixing the main gaze of our meditation on the core spirit we are. That connection makes a swirling of new shaping, a declaration of a battle between what we have been intended into and what internally we descover we want to be. It means we have taken responsibility as the field and as the Sun Chief that cultivates that field. The glow created in introspection is acted on. Flashy acts that bring no benevolence are rejected and we boldly start a whole new set of actions.