Check out this video interview of Seth Godin by David Meerman Scott discussing the concepts of being a Linchpin and an artist based on Seth’s new book “Linchpin: Are you indispensable?”.

Very good presentation by Philippe Starck on why design is important.

Very good talk on how the Internet may not be spoiling human intimacy but in fact help to grow it.

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

How much time and energy do you spend trying to figure out what your competition is doing? You’ll win buzz word bingo with “competitive analysis” and “benchmarking”, but will you win customers?

The #1 indicator of success is speed of execution. Period. Want to be successful? As Larry the Cable Guy says, “Get ‘er done.”

Over the last few months I’ve conducted several research projects for professional services clients to investigate the ‘best of breed’ websites in their industry.

From a business perspective Blogs can be a goldmine if aligned correctly with your other communications and marketing initiatives.

Today I realised what it is about New Zealand that makes it such an attractive package, both in its marketing of the country and in the reputation of its businesses.

A panel of email marketing professionals were interviewed recently who work closely with SMEs.

9 Tips for developing a great small business

A fantastic article by Marty Zwilling on how to value your startup.

7 tips from Wayne Burgan on developing a great business. I found Wayne’s 7 tips below very helpful to my business.

Successfully marketing and selling to business requires a specialised set of skills and strategies. Simply applying consumer sales strategies in the business-to-business (B2B) context will not produce results.

The author provides a list of key “pains” that all startups will experience unless you have invented something like Twitter (but then they have their own issues like how to actually make profit!). I have listed the pains below and have also provided my own comments for each pain.

The “E-Myth Revisited” book in my opinion is one of the greatest books out there for the small business owner. What makes it great for me is that when reading it I frequently say to myself “yeah that makes sense”.

I want to share with you what I learned from an event I attended and how it greatly helped the success of my business.