Archive for January, 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Crafting your elevator pitch: what are you promoting?

So, if you’re anything like millions of entrepreneurs, you didn’t just quit the day job and rush headlong into running your fledgling enterprise. In fact, you might even have a day job right now that pays the bills while you build your business (carefully, at night, and not on company time, RIGHT???). But what happens [...]

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Whole Foods to Stop Offering Plastic Bags

A friend of mine forwarded me this article by the New York Times which indicates that Whole Foods (where I just picked up some stuff today, in fact) will stop offering plastic bags to their customers by Earth Day, April 22, 2008.
From the article:
The Whole Foods Market chain said Tuesday that it would stop offering [...]

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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Networking: Morning or Evening?

This morning on the Marketing Mix Blog, self-promo rock star Ilise Benun posed the question: do early risers make better networkers? In her experience, Ilise seems to prefer morning events, but will they work for everyone?

I think it all depends on how you work. In my first year promoting the zen kitchen, I tried a [...]

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