For years, my international headquarters has been in the space under our stairs and it works quite nicely although it’s certainly not as fancy as the things you’ll see if you follow the ‘via’ link…

If you’re like most adults, caffeine is a part of your daily routine. But do you know the caffeine content of your favorite beverages? And did you know that some sweets and even over-the-counter medications have caffeine? You may want to take a closer look at just how much caffeine you get in a typical day, especially if you’re bothered by headaches, restlessness or anxiety. If your caffeine habit totals more than 500 to 600 milligrams a day, you may want to consider cutting back.

Click the tabs to the left to see the caffeine content in popular drinks, sweets and medications. One note about the numbers: Use them as a guide. The actual caffeine content of the same coffee drink can vary from day to day — even at the same coffee shop — because of factors such as roasting and grinding, as well as brewing time. The caffeine content of tea also is affected by how long it’s brewed.

Cutting back on caffeine in the new year? This may help…

So much for Bucky. Sigh…

To me, the absolute most powerful marketing strategy is to run a really great business that your customers love and tell all of their friends and family about. All the ads and social media effort in the world cannot overcome poor quality or lackluster customer service. That is why for the past 17 years my career has focused exclusively on studying the fundamental elements of business success.

 

Traveling worldwide at upwards of 200 days a year, I have worked shoulder to shoulder with some of the best (and worst) business leaders of our generation. I’ve also maintained a strict regimen of reading a minimum of 100 business books a year since 1989. In preparation for writing my book Awesomely Simple, I compiled all of my research and reading down to a single page that I called my “Strategy Map.” This single piece of paper represented more than 175,000 pages of reading on business excellence and an additional 5,000 pages of interview notes and survey results from my work as a consultant and trainer. I then took all of that information and tried to uncover the pattern… the formula for business success. Well, here is what I came up with: 
 

(T+C+ECF) x DE = Business Success

 

Let me take you step-by-step through the elements of this equation.

I discovered John Spence and ‘Awesomely Simple’ thanks to John Jantsch at DuctTapeMarketing. I suggest you add both to your list of thought leaders to follow in 2011…

Everything you “know” about social media for small business is wrong.

Small businesses—accountants, lawyers, and brick-and-mortar shops—don’t need 5,000 Facebook fans, Diggs, or blogs that are updated daily. They need business. You know, clients, customers, shoppers, or whatever you want to call them.

How do small businesses use social media to get more clients and customers?

It’s much easier than you think, and to demonstrate that, I analyzed 10 of my most successful small business clients, and discovered these 8 best-practices. Oh, and the best part is this: you can implement most of these tips in a long weekend.

Now let’s dive in.

You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’d like to dig a little deeper…

You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’d like to dig deeper…