Events for Growing Companies

There are tons of great events going on right now – from webinars to conferences. This list of small business webinars, events and conferences is brought to you every two weeks as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com . ****** National Small Business Week May 23-25, 2010, Washington, DC National Small Business Week 2010 will begin with three days of events in Washington, D.C., at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where more than 100 outstanding business owners from across the country will be recognized. Highlights of the event this year include: the Keynote speech by SBA Administrator Karen Mills; a town hall discussion on how small businesses are driving America’s economy; and a series of executive panel forums on Innovation, Exporting and Social Media. Small Business Trends will be bringing you coverage of this event.  Go here to see the master list of news articles.

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Daily Inspiration #516

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“The Language of Trust” Teaches Communications Lessons in a Skeptical World

In the recent movie “ Invention of Lying ” Ricky Gervais lives in a world where everyone tells the truth.  And since everyone tells the truth all the time, there is no reason to doubt anything they say as being nothing short of honest.  The movie succeeds in making us laugh. But it also drives another, much more serious point home; in real life, we are surrounded by lies.  In fact, we’ve become  so disenchanted with the messages we hear, that we’ve turned into an extremely skeptical audience. Trust is Dead “Over the years, with the weight of our accumulated experiences, we’ve simply become more distrustful of everyone and everything around us.  We don’t trust the government to look out for us.  We don’t trust each other to take responsibility for ourselves anymore … there are exceptions, but the general trend is undeniable… We now live in an era of mistrust.” Now you know it isn’t just you.  In fact, if you’ve been wondering why your marketing and sales messages have been falling on deaf ears – you don’t need to wonder.  Just look inside yourself and pay attention to the little voice inside your head whenever you listen to the news, read an article or listen to a salesperson discuss the features of their product.  It says something like “hmmmm really?  I’m not sure I believe you” One thing is for sure: this is NOT your father’s marketplace. The Authors are Language Rock Stars Like you, I’ve felt this very same trend when I realized that marketing was more about your customer CHOOSING you, rather than a company selling you something.  That’s when I started doing some research

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Small Business News: Can We Talk?

The headline above was once the catch phrase of legendary comic Joan Rivers. But as small business owners we all need the opportunity to talk about our businesses. And sometimes to hear some hard truths as well. In this edition of the Small Business Trends Roundup we look at some things all small business owners need to talk about to make our businesses strong and healthy. It’s time for some wincing honesty

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Scheduling Time To Stop And Smell The Roses

Being a stay-at-home dad and running a business at the same time requires some pretty serious scheduling. There are kids to be dropped off and picked up from various schools, activities, doctor appointments and the like. There are dishes to be done, floors to be vacuumed, pets to be fed. I have emails to reply to, accountants to appease, assistants to delegate to, and funny pictures to be drawn. There’s only so much time in the day, and, if I allowed it, I could probably schedule 24 hours a day of nothing but work and family.

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