Comments for Business Marketplace 360

Comment on Small Business Administration uses… gasp! YouTube by Allen W

Allen W — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:01:33 +0000

verrrrryy interestttting. I’ve always thought of the SBA as a bunch of people with great ideas and lots of advice but still stuck in the model of ‘Oh, let’s have a weekly breakfast meeting at the iHop and share ideas!” This could be reallllly big.
AW

Comment on Ever been blindsided by a Yelp “review?” by tomportante

tomportante — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:23:45 +0000

“Facts” aren’t always what they seem. A story:

Ship sails into its home port and when its secured and the re-provisioning is under way, all but a few of the crew run off for shore time. Including the First Mate.

It’s home port so the First Mate has himself more than a few pints of grog and returns back to his ship in the early hours of the next morning.

Later that day, when on shore watch, the Mate sees the entry made by the Captain in the previous nights ship log “First Mate – drunk tonight.” He speaks with the captain – asking him to reconsider the entry because logs are kept forever and are often used in Promotional Review.

Captain says “facts is facts. I saw what I saw, I wrote what I wrote and people will know it’s a fact. That simple!”

Next morning that Captain was reviewing the shore watch log from the night before. There, in the neat handwriting of the First Mate was the entry:

“Captain was sober tonight.”

Comment on Can social media tools help small businesses survive the recession? by mark_hayward

mark_hayward — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:56:54 +0000

Hi Tom – thank you for your kind words.

As a small business owner who actually uses social media, I thought it was time to dispel some myths surrounding the power of web 2.0.

Most importantly, however, I truly want to help other business owners who might be struggling by laying out exactly how I use the tools that are available for low cost marketing.

Comment on how do you feel about polls by Allen W

Allen W — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:17:03 +0000

‘notsure this is polling is useful for business but Igotta admit your siteis a whole lotta more fun to read thann most businesss sites. keep it up!!

Comment on these times are just too damned hard – I’m doing nothing new by John

John — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:20:06 +0000

You should add http://www.GlobalBX.com to your Blogroll. This is a long established and great business for sale site that connects business buyers, sellers and lenders. Best of all, the site is completely FREE!

Comment on so, how much is your business worth these days? by BizAg.com

BizAg.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:38:39 +0000

Tom & Claire,

Try the free business valuation tools at http://BizAg.com/statistics

Let us know what you think.

Comment on demographic cavalries to the rescue ! by tom portante

tom portante — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:46:08 +0000

Steve – from this Boomer, I have nothing but admiration for the generation of my daughter. Earlier today, I saw an 8-yr-old drop out of the graphic-rich “Spore” game screen into a text-box for a scripting language — where he conjured up a sea monster to appear on the next planet we visited. Um. Did I mention he was 8 !!! This kind of absolute comfort with digital fiddling will probably change the world in ways my generation talked about — but never achieved.

Comment on demographic cavalries to the rescue ! by Steve Sillers

Steve Sillers — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:17:26 +0000

Thanks for including the GenY mention ! I ran into this on a search for a class assignment and am glad you’re thinking about a generation that’s totally involved with technologies that’ll make business different! – SS

Comment on Using online information for buying & selling by Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:37:38 +0000

Try the free tools on http://BizAg.com to search businesses for sale and value a business. Let us know what you think.

Comment on a new type of re-casting offer: strategic positioning by tomportante

tomportante — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:34:39 +0000

This might be a new-ish sounding name, but a quick Google search suggests ’strategic recasting’ is an idea (and — term) that’s been around at LEAST since the late 90s.

see: http://www.hoffman.com/inthenews/articles/wsj_feb22_99.html