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Are you thinking of leaving your corporate life and becoming an entrepreneur? Before you quit your day job that actually pays and start day dreaming, think of whether you fit the entrepreneurship mold... “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison Here is what could be in store for you: 1. Long, thankless days of hard work  (sure you are building something of great value, but don't expect to hear "Thank You" from anyone until they use your products and services and even then...) 2. Upfront and ongoing investment of money and resources  (what, you thought you don't need to invest your hard-earned money to start something. Welcome to the real world!) 3. Bank loans and growing debt that could ruin you financially  (enough said, watch out! you may have to tell your creditors to wait and wait and wait... until they get antsy) 4. Hard Truth that No one wants to invest in your company  (angel investors think you don't have the best ...

What are you most proud of? This is an open question... please add your comment below!    What I am most proud of? My parents for bringing me to this world, sending me to college here in America, and helping me grow spiritually (and they still help :) ). Thank You Mom and Dad!! More about me (only if you want to read!)

According to HubSpot and MIT, in a study based on data from 5,048 HubSpot customers and surveys from 236 knowledgeable professionals about their company's marketing strategy, Blogging ranks #1. A Blog is the best way to increase website traffic and get more inbound marketing, which usually results in more leads. I started this blog on Creativity and Innovation in Business back in 2006 on Google's Blogger service. I have to say that I am amazed by the number of readers of this blog and how it has grown organically, not to mention the website traffic and exposure it generates. Are you interested in starting your own blog and growing your online presence? Did you know that a well-written blog also helps you with SEO.  Contact oGoing Team to create your new blog, grow your SEO and social media, and begin sharing best practices, tips and insights with your customers. About oGoing: oGoing is the nation's leading small business social media marketing and microblogging platform....

It can be a stressful world. Most professionals and adults have frequent neck, shoulder, back, or foot aches. How do you rewind and regain balance into your life. How can you leverage some of the most innovative, relaxing, and therapeutic health and personal care products in the comfort of your own home? We are talking about Innovations in Self Massage for Relaxation and Stress Reduction. A new company Zyllion provides non-invasive solutions to help replenish and restore your muscles and aches and pains with their innovative products.   The array of products and  massagers they carry are designed to target specific areas of the body (neck, shoulder, back, feet, scalp) yourself, and come with a range of customizable functions to suit your personal needs such as heat, vibrate, shiatsu and more.  Zyllion works diligently to make sure their massage products are affordable, keeping their customer needs in mind,    Enjoy a relaxing self DIY massag...

by Sanjay Dalal, founder & CEO, oGoing Just How Valuable Is Google's "20% Time"? Michael Schrage of Harvard Business Review summed it up after Google announced that it is cutting back the 20% free time given to "all" employees to "innovate". Google's innovation culture is being shaped as much by the performance data of its people as by their technical intuitions and insights. In other words, tomorrow's Google won't embrace 20% "free time" for everyone; innovation best practice will mean some individuals and teams will have as much discretionary time as they need while others will have virtually nil. Read more Now that Google has  put some rules   around “20% time,” the one day a week an employee spends on side projects, people are having a field day forecasting the end of innovation at the company that claims to “use their powers for good, not evil.” To those people, I ask one question: Can a company in today’s highly competit...

Are you starting out on Twitter and still trying to figure out what to do and say? oGoing founder & CEO Sanjay Dalal can help you make the most from your Twitter presence, and help you chart a better, more profitable course. Here are 20 questions that new businesses and users of Twitter have... which Dalal will help educate and consult you on: Twenty Twitter Questions: 1. Why do Twitter? 2. How to get started? 3. How to create a great profile that excites your customers? 4. How to connect with your customers? 5. How to search, listen and learn from your customers? 6. How to engage with your customers and answer questions? 7. How to share relevant, insightful, concise information in 140 characters or less? 8. Why, when and how to offer customer service or support? 9. How many tweets should you share daily? 10. When should the tweets be shared? 11. Who should share the tweets from your company? 12. How to ask questions and gather feedback? 13. How to grow your real following from ten...

Many Small Business Owners, Proprietors and Entrepreneurs are using social networking to create their social media profiles, share and promote updates about their products and services, make new online connections, get warm leads and grow their brand! Millions, if not billions, of potential customers are using social media every day! Thus there are plenty of incentives for small businesses to jump right in... What are some of the reasons small businesses are joining and marketing their company through social media? 1. It's inexpensive - well, technically it's free! However, free doesn't mean the time, expertise and resources it takes to create a beautiful profile and manage it well. It can take few hours a week at a minimum if owners want social media to yield results! 2. It's easy to use - again, easy for the most part. Most businesses still don't know how to connect or follow or engage with potential customers. The easy part is creating a profile and sharing a ...

Quite often, today's innovators become tomorrow's laggards, and many either die or just stop growing. The real question is: Why? Some of the popular and innovative companies of yesterday such as Hollywood Video, Borders, THQ, KB Toys, Frontier Airlines, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Nortel, Habitat, Polaroid are dead. Some reasons for the eventual demise and the death of innovation at these companies are: 1. Dependence on the familiar - Most companies become over-dependent on existing products for far too long, keep on adding bells and whistles and additional features that current customers keep on asking for, until they realize that these products are now bloated and obsolete. Worse yet, new customers don't want to buy the bloatware, and existing customers are also getting tired of the extra things that are not needed. 2. Change of management structure - Many times, as the company grows, the culture, leadership and management becomes more and more process oriented, and les...

Every business owner should at some time ask for and know the value of their business. This means an independent review, not to sell your business, but for strategic planning, enhancing its value for some future point down the road, or for estate tax purposes. Many reasons arise for needing a valuation: death, divorce, partnershi p split, estate tax planning, health related, desire to move, burn-out, retirement, or it may be stagnating for lack of resources to take it to the next level. There is always a buyer for a business if that is the solution, but knowing an approximate market value will be useful in internal discussions and decision making. You get a valuation opinion on your house don’t you? Why not your business? Contact: Fayaz Karim, BSc, MBA, CPA, Valuations and Business Brokerage Services phone: 949-253-4610 Irvine, CA. email: fayazk2435@aol.com    Connect: http://ogoing.com/mrfranchiseman Learn more

" It's (Creativity) a grossly underrated skill ," observed Gene Lindman, who heads EP&M International, a marketing company in Albany. " Having people who can think and create is super-important to us ." " Successful businesses get it ," said Chris Marblo, director of the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy. " They realize without a doubt creative thinking is important. " Bottomline: What do you think? Do you believe creativity is super-important for innovation and beyond? Over 1,500 CEOs according to IBM study believe that creativity was more important "than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision" if companies are to succeed in an increasingly complex global economy. Learn more about creativity and innovation Reference: Key to innovation