Tom Ashbrook discusses the “new business lingo” with Gregory Bergman, Paul Hemp, and Kara Swisher…
Every walk of life has its lingo. Its buzzwords and catchphrases. American business has its own colorful menagerie of slang, and always has — from bulls and bears, to bootstraps, and 800-pound gorillas, and fish in a barrel.
But buzzwords and catchphrases [...]

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Awesome slide deck from Marta Kagan describing Social Media and it’s impact on business.

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I am looking for an alternative to the word “firm” in description of my business. When people asks what my company does, I am forced to say “we are a web strategy and consulting firm”. I hate the connotations associated with the term “firm” in reference to my company. When I think of “firm”, I [...]

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The general idea of micro-consulting (or “microconsulting“) provides a defragmentation of consulting. Traditional firms provide “all or nothing” consulting. A scope is defined (which is never static), a contract is signed, and the “project” begins. The customer will be given a base rate for an open-ended (all hourly projects are open-ended regardless of a quoted [...]

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Sometimes I bounce around my Google Reader looking at different sections trying to find snippets to read. Every once in awhile (turning into quite often) this random act brings related ideas from different bloggers together and sparks a thought in my head, which I then relay to you.
Today I was catching up on local Des [...]

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