If Myspace has restructured that Tom is no longer going to be the face of Myspace because the site has lost its edge to Facebook.

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Co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone states, “Twitter provides a new way of messaging; it’s the messenging service we didn’t know we needed until we had it.”

John Colbert replies, “That sounds like the answer to a problem we didn’t know we had until I invented the answer.”

Biz responds, “If the telegraph was good enough to send then it was worth sending on a horse.” John questions, “What’s the Twitter business model?”

Biz confidently states, “We recognize the difference between profit and adding value. We are building value…Right now value means extending the service worldwide where more people can have access to the network…There are over 4 Billion Phones…As we grow the network to interface with texting and the internet it becomes more valuable….

Stone is going to experiment with the google revenue method to its Twitter application in 2009. And perhaps most important explore and test the results until he finds the right revenue model for Twitter.

So what does this have to do with your business? THE BIG TAKEAWAY

1. In 2009 into 2010 your business is going to have to solve a problem that the consumer doesn’t know exists or a solve a problem that the consumer can’t find an answer elsewhere.

2. And if the answer is offered in the marketplace how will you differentiate it and make it the only logical choice that the consumer must have right now.

3. Probably what is most important lesson in this clip is to recognize you must add value first and the profits will flow. However, you must have: patience, passion for your idea and keep cost-effectively testing your marketing until you get the right mix.

Look at your business and let me know how you will solve a problem for the consumer that makes your business stand out while adding value as well.

Jupiter research forecasts that online retail spending will increase from $81 billion in 2005 to $95 billion in 2006, and will grow to $144 billion in 2010. If you have an offline retail business how will you survive?

If your business is in trouble, I am here to tell you right now there has never been a better time in history to implement simple, easy and cost-effective strategies that can change whether you will remain in business in 2009. Why? Because your competitors are operating out of fear in the marketplace. Take advantage of the situation instead of falling prey to the media hype.

All too often business owners are too close to the problem to find the answer or make that small tweak in their marketing mix that can skyrocket their business from barely surviving to seeing dramatic results to their bottom line profits in 30 days.

Business owners frequently tell me that they have received genuine breakthroughs as a result of receiving another opinion. The business owner was too close to concentrate on looking at and solving the problem that the business is struggling with.

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I believe Sir Richard Branson is correct but bipartisanship sounds good but are the politicians ready to bridge the gap.

President Barack Obama yesterday pitched his economic plan at a Caterpillar Inc. plant in Illinois troubled by impeding layoffs expected to go into 2010.

The $790 billion stimulus plan is nearing votes in the House and Senate. The package of spending programs and tax relief may soon become law with Obama’s signature. However, what we have seen are there are still major ideological differences between Republicans and Democrats and bipartisanship isn’t everything.

Congressional deliberations over President Obama’s economic recovery package, have shown us that historians and politicians are comparing our economy and its politics to the New Deal.

Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada opposes the bill, arguing that government spending cannot reverse economic contraction. “History has proven that formula is a failure. We saw it in the Great Depression. You cannot simply spend your way out of a recession or a depression,” he said.

An economist at Washington’s CATO Institute, Dan Mitchell, says the New Deal actually made the depression longer and more severe by saddling the nation with a heavier government burden.

“The New Deal policies extended the Great Depression by seven years. We should not follow that model of failure,” said Mitchell. “The 1930s are a roadmap of what not to do, because all the [government] interference, all the intervention, the higher tax rates, the increases in government spending kept our economy from recovering. Politicians got in the way of the private sector.”

Historian Alan Brinkley of Columbia University has written extensively on the New Deal and its lessons for today.

“The [New Deal] spending was never large enough to compensate for the loss of wealth that the depression had created,” said Brinkley. “If you want to counteract a severe recession, you have to take big measures to generate economic activity. And I think that is what the stimulus package is designed to do.”

While everyone has an opinion on the stimulus package it is clear to me is that ultimately what will pull us out of the economic crisis to a large degree is entrepreneurs. Therefore, with the information I have as of this writing of the post I agree with Sir Richard Branson.

Never before has there been such opportunity for new businesses to start out of the necessity to creatively think to make money. Our greatest growth whether it be financially or personally is when the pain is so great we are forced to make a change.

*Source quotations above By Michael Bowman Washington 11 February 2009

I must confess I an Eagles Fan for over 15 years since I am originally from PA but the Arizona Cardinals story is a lesson to learn in life and in your business.

The Cardinals born in an Irish neighborhood in Chicago 111 years ago have spread football mediocrity from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River to the Sonoran Desert.

While the Steelers had a hometown which took root in Pittsburgh, acquiring the city’s gritty, blue-collar persona, the Cardinals wandered from north to south in search of a home.

Before this season’s improbable run past Atlanta, Carolina and Philadelphia, the Cardinals had two playoff victories in their entire history: 1) the 1947 NFL championship game against Philadelphia 2) in a 1998 wild-card upset of the Dallas Cowboys.

Here’s the story that grabs at our heart…

The Cardinals were owned by the Bidwill family since 1932, but their lineage dates to 1898. As I understand the story… a group of men going by the name of the Morgan Athletic Club began playing football on Chicago’s South Side.

Three years later, team owner Chris O’Brien, a local painting contractor, bought some faded jerseys from the University of Chicago and, as the story goes, declared “That’s not maroon, it’s Cardinal red.”
Thus was born the nickname that would for decades be emblematic of professional football futility.

The Cardinals’ greatest success did not come until the aftermath of the war, when the 1947 team went 9-3 under coach Jimmy Conzelman and beat the Eagles for the NFL title. Sadly, Bidwill didn’t live to see the triumph. He died of pneumonia in April of that year.

The following season, the Cardinals were 11-1, but lost to Philadelphia for the crown.

Bidwill’s widow Violet inherited the team and she and her second husband, Walter Wolfner, were in charge in the troubled days that led to the move to St. Louis in 1960.

The team was losing money after 37 seasons at Comiskey and wanted to play its games at Northwestern. But Halas had an agreement from years earlier that the Cardinals would never play north of Madison Street.

So in 1960, the move from a mostly indifferent Chicago was made. Bidwill looked at Memphis, Jacksonville, Baltimore and — most of all — Phoenix. Oddly, Phoenix had nearly landed the Eagles in the mid-1980s, before the fans in Philadelphia made so much noise that the team stayed put.

Phoenix officials made sure any negotiations with Bidwill were done quietly. The league approved the move to Arizona on March 15, 1988.

But the team had barely arrived in town before it began to alienate fans. Bidwill set first-season ticket prices at an average of $38, the highest in the league at the time. Although he lowered it a bit to $36 the next year, it still was tops in the NFL.

Bidwill, notorious for his old-fashioned contract beliefs and penny-pinching ways, let some of his best players — offensive tackle Lomas Brown, fullback Larry Centers and linebacker Jamir Miller — get away from that team.

Then the Cardinals had a losing record every season until 2007, when first-year coach Ken Whisenhunt’s club went 8-8.

Bill Bidwill, now 77, smiled broadly as he hoisted the Halas Trophy for the NFC; it was a rare moment of triumph for a man whose many charitable deeds went by unknown. Bidwell’s ownership has long been vilified by many NFL fans in Arizona even though he is described by many as not a ‘flashy person’.

That love-hate relationship Arizona had for Bidwill and the Cardinals is all-love now, and in a city that’s one of the hardest hit by the economy’s problems, it’s a welcome diversion.

Watch this YouTube video and what two words does each player ask? If you answered, “Pick me” then you are right. What lessons can you take into your business from these NFL players?

BUSINESS STRATEGY TIPS: Why should your customer, client or patient pick your business or service to do business with you?

What are you doing to stand out in your market?

How are you branding yourself?

How are you cost-effectively using your marketing budget?

What lead generation tools are you utilizing to bring customers in the door?

While economic times are tough and scary this is also the greatest opportunity for growth in your business because most of your competition will react with fear and some will cut their marketing campaigns by at least 50%.

It is prudent to watch expenses and trim the fat. However successful businesses know it is the marketing that is the fuel that runs a clean engine.

Miss America was losing its edge and ratings so it made drastic changes this year.

A Trip Through Pageant History: A Real Slice of Americana reveals the first pageant was held in Atlantic City, N.J. in September 1920 as a way to keep tourists in Atlantic City after the Labor Day weekend.

The information gives us a factual look at “The Firsts” of the Miss America Pageants.

Here are some other pageant “firsts”: The only way to improve results is to learn from the past and keep testing in the present. In 1920 there certainly was not nearly as much competition as there is today.

Videos get messages out faster than most mediums. Playlist: Best of the 2009 Miss America Pageant Contestants on YouTube

Description: We sent each of the girls a Flip Ultra video camera and a set of 13 questions. Here are some of their best answers. The marketing plan to send each contestant a Flip Camera I have utilized as a marketing strategy with my private clients.

Rate this video at: http://www.tlc.com/MissAmerica Miss West Virginia (Kayla Lynam) tells us about her most embarrassing moment.

People love to read about stories and even more enjoy reading “Most Embarrassing Moments”. It works to humanize the contestant and be able to connect with her. The winner in this contest is Miss West Virginia for having the most views at the time of this blog post.

There were many strategies utilized in what I have defined as the “Miss America 2009 Marketing Makeover” that will be studied so make sure to follow my articles at Ezine Articles Directory.

The clock is ticking. Why can’t you hear it because you are living in fear like we all are. But what makes 1% of the population make 96% of the income in the world. They take MASSIVE action on a consistent basis and understand there is risk but it is worth it. You must make a decision and act on it or the opportunity will pass you by.

I know what I am asking is hard but if change isn’t going to come this year then when will it for you?
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You must decide if you are going to start the new year with a plan or with a prayer? Last year you probably set some goals and made promises to yourself and ended up with unmet goals. Are you going to repeat history, OR are you finally going to create history?

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You are staring down the barrel of an incredible opportunity to begin the year full of hope and all you have to do is say YES, I’m ready to make 2009 the best year of my life.

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