Photo courtesy: LeSpring123 at Flickr **Warning**: New Buzzword Alert Stage Capturing: Taking advantage of somebody else’s stage for your advantage (without permission from that somebody) Enjoy the story: The Opportunity Tim sent a note to a few dozen friends promoting his new book. One of the recipients, Bob quickly responded to all promoting his own… Continue reading
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Upbeat in Production
Rajesh Setty weaves together pragmatic and even familiar insights into a new playbook for what is turning out to be a game that none of us have ever played in our careers! From the foreword by Russ Fradin, CEO of Sungard [buy amazon=”http://www.amazon.com/Upbeat-Cultivating-Attitude-Thrive-ebook/dp/B00512PMLO/”] Please sign up for my newsletter here:
Newsletter for the week of March 1, 2009
Hello: This week was busy. Sometimes a week zips past so fast that it seems unfair. This week, I will talk about competence and also include a quick article titled “10 Quick Ways to Lose Credibility Online” If you like the newsletter, kindly forward this to someone who might like it and m hope is… Continue reading
Guarantee please!!
So many people send me new books and I am sure they hope that if I like the book, I will spread the message about the book. Sometimes I will write about it in my blog, send out a note to my newsletter subscribers, tweet about it. Sometimes I recommend this to companies that are… Continue reading
Update on Upbeat
Finally, the book is going to print this week. Actually, it went to the printers today. It was out of my hands a few weeks ago but until it went to the printers there was a feeling of incompleteness. There was some sort of finality finally. It was an year-long journey to get here and… Continue reading
Word-of-mouth marketing for a Dry Cleaner
Photo courtesy: Dan Eriksson at Flickr I have used the same dry cleaner for my clothes for more than five years. During my last visit, the person asked me whether I received a coupon by email. I told him I did but I just ignored it. In fact I asked him – “You take care… Continue reading
Newsletter for week of Feb 22
This was the first newsletter sent out to a few hundred subscribers: You can subscribe to the newsletter here: Subscribe to Life Beyond Code Newsletter Life Beyond Code Newsletter Issue for the week of Feb 22, 2009 —–===(*)===—– Hello All, Hope you had a great start for this year. Honestly, I have been struggling with… Continue reading
Amazon Books – Answering a series of questions
Here are a series of questions that Amazon answered over the years: 1. Why do you want to go to the bookstore when you can find a book online? [convenience] 2. Why do you want to search among a few thousand books when you can search among a few million books? [long tail] 3. Your… Continue reading
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For the few hundred of you who are on the list, welcome! I have finally started writing the newsletter. The first issue was sent out yesterday. The newsletter content is different. It is part personal and part education. Hope to keep it that way but it will evolve into something that will benefit both of… Continue reading
10 Ways to Get a License for Inaction
Photo Credit: DGray-Xplane at Flickr Here they are: There are not many choices There are too many choices I am analyzing the risk/reward scenarios for EVERY action I am getting a second opinion (add third, fourth and fifth….) I want to be SURE… My gut says to wait (and I have been hurt when I… Continue reading