As some of you may know I don't really get the valuations of these Web 2.0 business, nor do I fully understand the way they will or are making money today. I put it down to my age....I'm 31.0 which is bigger than 2.0. Recently I have found some users of Facebook that are really using it properly and by properly I mean not simply as a glorified contacts manager( Like I do) and one of these super users gave me an example which sparked a thought.
His wife had recently started making jewellery and had posted some pictures on her Facebook page for her friends to see, the next morning she had 3 orders.....WOW
Apart from being able to market to your friends has Facebook created a network of potential customers that trust you because you are a part of their network. No one asked her "Is this stuff for real?", they knew her and trusted her and they went straight to check out. That sparked another question, could Facebook be used to ignite the one man business, a business based on implied trust?
Will Facebook be the next place you sell your car?
Who knows, but I can tell you its a great place to count how many friends you have ;)
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Negative people, the idea's killer
What a great title for my first post, but hey its the first conversation I feel like talking about.
Today in a meeting I came accross a very very negative person. It was like someone had passed him crib sheets of all the ideas I was going to come up in the meeting so he could counter them. Tom Peters says you should try and avoid these people like the plauge or read them the riot act, I agree with him as you just have to stay positive and want to win. One thing I can be certain about is that every company has these people so we all have to deal with it some way or another. Whats more is that in these tough times they seem to convert the good times fence sitters to the dark side, so dealing with them is more important in testing times.
My question is how do these people affect the organisation? Its obviously negativly but how bad can it get, could a group of dark siders sink an organisation? Furthermore who is likely to leave for greener pastures the negative or the positive? And lastly how does senior management ensure an idea / growth orientated environment when negative employees are on the rise?
Anyway don't join the dark side and stay positive, remember business is suppose to be challenging and fun.....ok its more of a goal but something we should all be working towards.
Today in a meeting I came accross a very very negative person. It was like someone had passed him crib sheets of all the ideas I was going to come up in the meeting so he could counter them. Tom Peters says you should try and avoid these people like the plauge or read them the riot act, I agree with him as you just have to stay positive and want to win. One thing I can be certain about is that every company has these people so we all have to deal with it some way or another. Whats more is that in these tough times they seem to convert the good times fence sitters to the dark side, so dealing with them is more important in testing times.
My question is how do these people affect the organisation? Its obviously negativly but how bad can it get, could a group of dark siders sink an organisation? Furthermore who is likely to leave for greener pastures the negative or the positive? And lastly how does senior management ensure an idea / growth orientated environment when negative employees are on the rise?
Anyway don't join the dark side and stay positive, remember business is suppose to be challenging and fun.....ok its more of a goal but something we should all be working towards.
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