http://www.bounceapp.com/

Project feedback is getting critiques and advice on how to improve designs. After getting an outside perspective helps spot issues and validate design choices. With the web’s ability to connect us to people from all over the world, getting feedback has never been easier.

Find other feedback tools here http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/web-design-feedback-tools/

Most businesses write predominantly about themselves in their marketing material, but this can be a big sales-killer. To write persuasively, you need to focus more on what the client will get out of you rather than what you actually provide. In other words, focus more on the benefits rather than the features. The feature is the straightforward explanation of your product or service, the benefit is the positive outcome the client derives from your product or service.

http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/marketing/business-writing/how-to-write-persuasively

If you have not yet already embraced e-commerce, you may end up coming late to the party – thus being part of the cohort of businesses that enter the fray en masse. Obviously, that means you’ll have more competition.

What’s the biggest challenge facing your industry to get your product online now!?

Source – Steven Noble – http://ht.ly/2qwZT

The new phone is powered by an A4 CPU (the same chip used in the iPad) and sports a 3.5-inch screen with 960×640 resolution, dual mics, and an upgraded camera (5mp) system that will include HD video recording with video editing capabilities.

Specifications:
Current iPhone owners who have an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS can also upgrade to the new iPhone OS 4.0, but only third-generation iPod touch, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 owners will be able to take advantage of multitasking.

The new iPhone is available in black and in white, with storage capabilities of 16 and 32GB. The device will be available starting

Keep the updates coming. I’m excited !

All the experts in the world became so after declaring themselves Experts and setting about the daily business of producing specialized products, services and information. Learn how to promote yourself as an expert and gain public relations exposure.

While the specific applications vary from platform to platform, the most popular apps across smartphones were pretty consistent in this report: Google Maps & Facebook coming out on top.

Interesting trends ay.

http://bit.ly/deOonQ

One: Become an expert source. Deliver a speech, write a bylined article, and become an expert source for reporters. Make sure you have a current photo, bio, resume, and speaker introduction.

Two: Become a great communicator. Research shows communications skill is the top determinant for upward social and professional mobility. Join Toastmasters or hire a communications coach to ensure that your written and verbal skills are at their best.

Three: Draft a marketing plan for yourself annually, and review it quarterly. Include specific goals, strategies, action steps, and a timetable.

Four: Develop an ‘elevator speech.” Within the time that it takes an elevator to travel one floor—about 60-seconds—be able to deliver a succinct description of what you do, how you do it differently, and the benefit it provides.

Five: Build your Rolodex. Make new business contacts and stay in touch with them. Most people with powerful brands have powerful friends.

Six: Realize that your boss can be your most powerful ally—or enemy—in building your brand. Be loyal and never speak ill of him or her—to anyone. We should make our bosses look good, and help them build their own brands.

Seven: Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Balance your individual style with clothing that will appeal to those you are trying to impress.

Eight: Become a class act. Learn good business and social etiquette. Buy elegant personal stationery and send hand-written notes. Know how to order a good bottle of wine in a fine restaurant and drink it sparingly during dinner. (Remember, alcohol and branding seldom mix.)

Nine: Select “significant” significant others. Who you date or who you marry affects your brand. John Hancock CEO David F. D’Alessandro in his book Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It, suggests that single people not take their dates to company events. If they do, they will be judged by the outcome of every romance.

Ten: Give something back. Giving your time, talent, and money to charitable causes is a brand-builder especially when it complements your brand strategy. Find a cause you are passionate about. When I was in public relations, I wanted to be known for my creativity. By limiting my community involvement to arts organizations I was able to reinforce my personal brand. Not only did my involvement in the arts benefit my career, I enjoyed the work. I still do.

Your personal brand is one of your greatest business assets. Nurture your brand and you will nurture your career.

For more Business Tips go to – http://ibusinesstip.com/2010/05/ten-ways-to-build-your-personal-brand/

Creating a winning business name takes some thought but is one of the most important things you’ll do during the process of starting a business. Starting out with a weak business name is like trying to golf with only one club in your bag. You may sink some shots but it will be a whole lot harder.

So how do you create a winning business name? Get your family, friends and/or colleagues together for a business name brainstorming session and work through these five rules for choosing a business name:

1) A winning business name has to be memorable – but easy to spell.

Obviously, your potential customers and clients need to be able to remember your business name. But they also need to be able to find it easily if they’re looking for it in a phone book, directory or online. So choosing a business name such as “Crychalwellyn” is a bad idea. Unique is good but difficult spellings are a bad idea.

2) A winning business name needs a visual element.

What popped into your head when you read “Crychalwellyn”? Anything? Most people don’t visualize anything when they read this business name that I invented. But generally we are hard-wired to “see” images when we read or hear language, and incorporating a visual element into your business name can be a powerful aid to customers’ memory (and a powerful advertising tool).

So you want your business name to have a strong visual element to it. The catch is that…

3) A winning business name has to have positive connotation.

Many words have both denotation (literal meaning) and connotation (emotional meaning). A word’s connotation can be positive, neutral or negative, depending on the emotional associations that people generally make. The classic example is the difference between “Mom” (which has a very positive connotation) and “Mother” (which has a neutral connotation). Now you know why they called them “Dad’s” cookies, rather than “Father’s”!

What it means to you is that when you create a business name, you need to choose words that have the positive connotations that you want people to associate with your business – and make sure these connotations are suitable for your business.

If you are starting a trucking business, for instance, you don’t want it to have a weak sounding or negative name, such as “Willow Twig Trucking” or “Kitten Transport”. You want a business name that conveys strength and reliability. A choice such as “Stone Creek Trucking” would be much better. Notice how all these names have a strong visual element.

4) A winning business name needs to include information about what your business does.

Chances are good that your new business is not going to become an international brand. It certainly isn’t instantly going to become as well known as Nike. So you need to be sure that your new business name at least gives your potential customers or clients some clues about what you actually do. That’s why you see so many landscaping businesses that have the word “landscaping” in their name, and hair styling businesses that include words such as “salon” or even “hair designs” in their names.

Including information about what your business does in your business name also makes it easier for potential customers and/or clients to find your business in phone books and directories (both off and online).

5) A winning business name has to be fairly short.

Once again this is vital because you want customers and clients to be able to remember your business’s name (and be able to tell other people what it is)! But it’s also important for promotional purposes. You want a business name, for example, that will fit well on a business card, look good displayed on a sign or in an ad, and perhaps even a business name that will serve well as a domain name and show up well in search if you have an online business. So keep it as short as possible.

And a last tip: think about colours when you’re choosing a business name. Colours will be an important component of your business logo and other business promotion materials and your business web site, and colours have strong emotional associations, too. Red, for instance, is an aggressive colour; its fiery elements are associated with speed, excitement and passion while green is a calming colour associated with growth, renewal and nature. For more information on colours and their meanings see Color Meanings and Colors That Go Together by Jacci Howard Bear.

You’ll want to create at least two winning business names, and three is even better, because once you’ve chosen a business name, the next step is to register it and your first choice may already be taken.

Do you now have a winning business name that meets the requirements of all of the above five rules? Good! Hopefully you’ll be living with the name for your new business for a long time – and it will continue to attract new business.

Source - Susan Ward, About.com Guide

Having the right Goal is going to get you long term success. If you are not clear about what you do. How can you be happy when you get there?

Planning for success is rewarding. Make yourself a goal, setup yourself up for success & when you achievement arrives for that goal,  it’s what pushes you one to greater heights.

My goal has been to relocate my business to the Gold Coast. From all the planning, to the action of moving, i am finally rewarded with a beautiful appartment overlooking the beach on the Gold Coast.

What’s your rewarding goal?

This is an awesome blog post i read today! What Motivates You?

Know what your passions are is going to help you align with your purpose. There is a huge benefit in reflecting upon your path that you have travelled so far and deciding where you want to go next.
For myself i discover that travel has been very important in my life. One on the boxes i will check off my bucket list is travelling to India. Now anyone who mentions to me about the topic India will have my immediate attention. Ask, and find out for yourself what is on your bucket list. That way when it pops up, you’ll know your along your passionate purpose of life.

Your passion is waiting for you!