Restarting The Fire!
August 10, 2007
Hi everyone! I’ts been a long time since our last post! Why? well first of all I went for two weeks to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, lots of sun and lots of fun, second, because I was trying to give this blog a new look, with new functions, so I spent a lot of time in the redesign, I hope you like it and ejoy it, and third because I’ve been working in other personal projects as well, some of them really interesting. Basically those are the mainr eason why this blog was down for almost a month, but now I’m back, I’m back to the university as well, so I guess I’ll be posting maybe two or three times a week, but I’ll try to provide you high quality relevant articles.
Although this blog was down for a month, it still receives a lot of visits and it still has a lot of subscribers, thanks to all of you. As you can see we also experimented a small rebranding, we have a new logo! Well, This is a new season for The Lounge, We’re back, so let’s start the fire again!
Oh! By the way, let me know what you think about the new design! It is based on an original theme by BloggerLounge called ParmaRossa, I’ll release a public version very soon. Take care and I’ll post the first new article very soon!
Most Useful Videos For Entrepreneurs & Rising Leaders
July 12, 2007
Hi there! I know it’s been a while since my laste post, I’ve been a little bit busy not only with my online activities but also with some college issues, but everything seems to be ok now. About a month ago I came accross with a very interesting site, many of you might know it already it’s called TED.com it is a site where you can find some of the best videos I’ve seen about this conference,videos are related to many topics, like science, culture, business, creatyivity and global issues, this gave me a great idea. Today I want to introduce you a list of some of the best videos for entrepreneurs and rising leaders, I hope you enjoy them.
Business, Innovation & Creativity
-Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there’s innovation ahead. (TED)
-Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional. (TED)
-Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes. (TED)
-Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (TED)
-Jim Carroll takes a look at how companies without forward oriented leadership fail to thrive. (Google Videos)
-Larry Keeley Explore the frontiers of innovation and strategy. (Google Video)
-Rick Warren: Living a life of purpose (TED)
-Tom Peters: Innovation is Actually Easy! (Youtube)
-Motivational Business -World Innovation Forum (Youtube)
There you go! If you know some more useful videos you’d like to share with us just let us know in a comment!
More Quality Backlinks, More Blog Relations!
July 6, 2007
Hi there! I’m back! my vacations are over, after spending a whole week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico finally I’m back, First of all let me tell you that it was awesome, lots of sun and fun! Well, the purpose of this post is just to let you know that I’ll start again my “Blog Relations” program. a few months ago I started this feature in this blog with excelent results, this time you’ll have to review this blog, or a post contained in the Archives page, and after some review I’ll include all of them in a post with a small review of each site, this is a Win-Win situation, you’ll get a high quality PageRank 5 backlink! As simple as that. Here are some stats and facts about BloggerLounge.
PageRank 5
Traffic. an average between 1,500 and 2,000 Uniques visits per day.
Technorati Rank. 1,269
After the review just post a comment here to let me know or contact me including the url of your blog and the exact url to the review, and that’s it, I’ll do the same for you. Take care! I’ll be back.
What am I Doing?
June 19, 2007
Hi there! I know I’ve been a little distant this days, but don’t even think that I’m not here, because I am, the thing is that I’m just in the middle of a research, this research is related to The Lounge and to the Blogosphere, I mean it’s not a separated project, I am still behind this blog, which in fact is almost reaching the top 1,000 in Technorati which is amazing, other interesting fact that you might not know about the Lounge is that currently it is visited by an average of 3,000 people per day, really great, just 4 months old. I’ve been reading your blogs too.
Next week I’m goi9ng to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, but during this week I’ll continue with my research project and I’ll try to publish the results when I come back. Please be patient, I know you are. ;) Take care.
When Creativity REALLY Hits The Market
June 11, 2007
The other day I was surfing the web with my StumbleUpon Toolbar and I came across with some interesting ads which I found very very creative, in fact it is possible that you’ve already seen them, but I thought it would be great to share with all of you, take a look and see how the masters of advertising can make when creativity matters. I hope you like them please let me know what you think. ;)
WildLife
WildLife is disappearing, Where’s the lion?!
Pepsi Lemon
Heinz Hot Ketchup
Healthy Sunflower Oil
Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneur StartUps
June 5, 2007
There are certain mistakes that most entrepreneurs do at the moment they start a project, any kind of project. These mistakes can cost you a lot of time, and of course money, you can even lose everything because of them, remember to pay attention in details and never forget to follow your instincts, but above all, use your brain. Well, now let’s take a look at the Top 10 most common mistakes of entrepreneur startups.
Confusion - The entrepreneur dreams about a business without analyzing the characteristics that would make him a successful businessman. When problems appear, the entrepreneur gives up to his idea of business and fights to enter the labor market. A good businessman insists until he achieves it, and never quits.
Intuition - When you have a great idea , the first thing you have to ask yourself is: Does it has potential? Will someone buy my product? You should have enough vision to answer this questions, a big mistake of most entrepreneurs is when they don’t analyze the consequences and they just follow their instincts without even analyzing the possibilities. Most of them ask those questions after they launch their idea, not before.
Business Plan - believe it or not it is important, it matters. even though there have been a lot of successful companies that began without a proper business Plan, it is a good tool to guide your new project. Most entrepreneurs think they don’t need it.
Continuous improvement - when they’ve reached a certain level of success they think there’s no need to learn more or to improve themselves or their business, huge mistake! continuous improvement is always important in all aspects and areas.
Obligations - We all have. No matter what you do, you can never run away from them. We all have obligations with our customers, our partners, our employees, the shareholders, the society, the government, and the environment. Take that in mind.
Money money and money - Some entrepreneurs plan their strategies according to profits without having in mind the other aspect of the company like the cash flow or the general balance between the assets and liabilities.
Customers - They are the ones that drive your success, without them, there’s no business at all, so take care of them, they are one of the most valuable assets of all, gain their loyalty and respect and you’ll have them wherever you want.
Organization - Well in fact the lack of organization is a big mistake not just in business but in everything, without it the whole ship can sink forever.
Strength - and courage to continue when everything seems to be failing, never give up, just keep trying.
Your own Money - It is forbidden to mix your personal expenses with those of the company.
Inspirational Dropouts
May 31, 2007
The other day I was reading a very interesting article about success, there was a particular line that caught my attention in that moment, “Success is not always found at school. School isn’t for everyone, as simple as that.” But don’t get confused, success is not for everyone either. There are a lot of stories that tell us that sometimes we have to follow our dreams and take some risks to achieve success.
But what makes a dropout a successful one? well, some of the factors that matter in these cases are:
- Creativity
- Imagination
- Vision
- Innovation
- Will
- and… Faith
As Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge, For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Now let’s take a look to some inspirational dropout stories.
William H. Gates III (Microsoft)
Dropped out of: Harvard University in 1975 at age 20.
He represents maybe the most famous dropout of all, why?, simple because he’s also the richest man of the World, at least for now. There are some who can’t understand why a 20 year old student from Harvard University left school in pursuit of a dream that was unachievable for them. With his partner and friend Paul Allen (Also dropped out) founded one of the most successful companies in history, you already know the rest.
Get More Backlinks & PR, Sponsor This Theme!
May 24, 2007
We all know how important is PageRank, Technorati Rank and Backlinks, right? well all blogs and websites should focus also on this 3 things, because a good PR , TR and a lot of quality backlinks can increase the value of your blog or websites along with other benefits. if you remember, a few weeks ago I publishes a post about the advantages of theme sponsorship, well in that article I also point out that with this simple technique bloggers and site owners can focus their attention in generating quality content and traffic because they’ll be dedicating less time to build a solid link network.
Well that’s why this time I want to offer you the opportunity to sponsor one of my themes, it is called Helios 1.0 and it has 2 spots available check the LiveDemo, very cheap prices and the benefits will be huge! Invest your money in something that’ll really help your blog or site. Get lots of backlinks in a great variety of blogs with different PageRank, just check my own PR and my TR. I’ll promote this theme in many sites. Plus, both sponsors will get a nice backlink in a post in this PR 5 blog! If you’re interested drop me a line!
UPDATE- Both links SOLD! Thanks!
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