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Article from about.com that aims to help you understand the role of social media in marketing.
Innovate, and Grow Rich! What does it really take to create an amazing, ultimately market dominating product? Attorney and business writer Steven Strauss goes behind the scenes to find out.
Strauss believes that the best way to learn and understand what it takes to innovate is by looking at people who have done it. In The Big Idea: How Business Innovators Get Great Ideas to Market, Strauss tells the real life stories of 30 different products that were truly unique, started as an idea in someone’s head, and went on to become household names.…
Link to Amazon.com’s page where you can read about Donny Deutsch’s book, The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From the Aha Moment to Your First Million.
The Bloom Report is a news and information center that is complied, edited, and published for the toy and related industries.
Link to Amazon.com’s page where you can read about Barbara Carey’s book, The Carey Formula: Your Ideas Are Worth Millions.
ASAE is a professinal membership association for association staff. ASAE represents 21,000+ association executives and industry partners representing 10,000 organizations. The members manage leading trade associations, individual membership societies and voluntary oganizations across the U.S. and in nearly 50 countries around the world.
The Chain Store Guide is a company that basically sells buyer’s names and contact information. They probably have the most comprehensive list of buyer’s names, however, access to this information is quite expensive. Although pricey, purchasing one of their comprehensive lists will save you a tremendous amount of time and headache! Cost is anywhere from $200 to $1000 for a list depending on what form you choose (ie book form vs.…
Link to Amazon.com’s page where you can read about
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cashing in on Your
Inventions.
Don’t be afraid of deviants. They just may save your business.
In today’s challenging and sometimes puzzling business environment, deviance equals innovation–the kind of breakthrough thinking that creates new markets and tumbles traditional ones. In The Deviant’s Advantage, two of America’s most respected futurists show how this deviance proceeds along a traceable trajectory, explaining how and why:
• Christian fundamentalism morphed from college Bible studies to Republican party king-making
• Reebok cares more about what’s on the feet of kids in Detroit and Philadelphia than what the so-hip-it-hurts set is wearing in New York or on Rodeo Drive
• Hugh Hefner, the creator of Playboy, transformed into a cultural icon with decidedly Puritan sensibilities
Tomorrow’s breakthrough concept is lurking out there right now in the mind of a deviant individual.…
In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip.
Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all.…
The Dun & Bradstreet® Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) provides a valuable source of information on both privately held and public companies and their executives. MDDI features easy-to-use cross references, primary and secondary lines of business and the names and titles of company officers and directors. Mergent’s MDDI now combines complete coverage on all businesses in the U.S.…
The Engineering Center is a nonprofit association management
company that provides services to engineers and the public.
The Everything Inventors & Patents Book
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