1. Seth Godin recently wrote about a company that books tables in restaurants all over the USA for $1. Do the same in your country.
2. Guy Kawasaki used Logoworks for making a logo for his new site. Use a logoworks model to do the same company in your country.
And finally - make your business even better - only than it will be "fabulous".
I’m becoming lost in Web 2.0 services. So let’s try to summarize all we’ve got for today:
1. Blogging services - Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and smaller ones.
2. Social Networks / Blogs - Bebo, Frappr, LinkedIn, Myspace (for musicians), Iqons (for design related guys), Deviantart (for designers), Facebook, Vox, Livejournal.
3. Mini blogs services - Twitter, Jaiku. I still didn’t get what is so cool with them.
I will update this post so your contacts are very welcome - together we will be able to make a full list of new web!
Weather in Moscow these days is magnificent. It’s warm but a bit cloudy. Temperature is 22 average and it’s super comfortable for living.
What I noticed is when we are in Egypt/Turkey/any south country - 35°C and even higher is ok. But if you go for example to Moscow and the temperature will be something about 30°C - it will be very hard to stand. Moving north - the same situation. There even 20°C will be very hard for human.
So the idea is - close to equator it’s easier to live in higher temperature (and vice versa).
Let’s check this out! What is the best temperature in your location?
Hello my friends! I’m back from 1 week holidays in Turkey. Before a hardworking second part of the year it was necessary to relax a little bit and get some sea power. =)
More posts coming soon!
Best regards, Dmitry.
I’m not posting a lot last days. This is because I’m rethinking a lot of things.
The first result was the previous post - about absent of rules. Suddenly, reading a business book, I realized this very clear. I just took the statistics of what does the great businessmen did to get to the top? And the only thing was - they were innovative and work hard. Of course luck was also important and environment and many many other things. Anyway - I didn’t find that they read business books or graduated in famous business schools.
And then I just stop reading business literature. Of course - there are a few more books on my shelf that I will finish with in a few months. But now I mostly read fiction and news. And you know what - I feel different. My imagination starts to work harder, I got new ideas, new thoughts.
Let’s see what’s next…
Tags: no rules, literature, success
The only rule is - there are no rules. It’s so hard to understand! You always seek for some magic recipe or scheme of what to do in order to be happy/rich/famous etc. But the only thing you can do is to work hard and get what you want!
And forget about the rules!
There are a lot of ways of doing things. Some managers are growing inside the corporations and then blast, other organize their own business and blast. But in general - they are all in one reality.
Another realities, such as financial or governmental, also exist. But we will not talk about them right now. What we will talk is the Virgin reality created by Richard Branson. This is also management and corporate world, but it seems to me that Richard found something very very different from everybody else.
I’ve finished reading his second book and this is not a book about business or management. It’s about a man, about being strong, about dreaming and willingness to change the world. Richard has a dislexia - but it didn’t impede him. Books aren’t the matter of his success. What is? Maybe his revolutionary behavior, maybe character, maybe something else. What I think - he was always honest to himself, and this helped him in his life.
What I think - this reality is very important. I even not think about it - I feel it. And I’m very thankful for the books Richard wrote - because they make you feel, they make you understand that the rules are only in your head!
Tags: realities, Virgin, Richard Branson
In Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about a man, who had enormous amount of contacts. And this thing worked for him, because he was a link between them, connector.
It’s good to have a lot of contacts but it is also very important to stay online with even the weakest links (that finally can give you even more). And here comes the People management. And the question is - how you manage your contacts?
For me contacts are like projects, you have to fulfill promises, given to them, say hello at least once in a few months and remember their birthdays. Does anyone of you use some kind of a system to make this work easier? Or maybe there is software for such tasks?
Tags: people management, contacts, gladwell, tipping point
It’s been a while I’ve installed Google Dynamics on my site. Today, checking up the geo statistics I was amazed of the amount of countries!
Just want to say Hi to all my readers - and please don’t hesitate to write your comments and your thoughts! You can also contact me directly on any ideas or just to chat ;).
Shouts go to:
USA (especially California - 9 visits "It’s been HUGE" 
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Saudi Arabia - nice to see you here!
Malaysia - hello guys)
Bulgaria - трябва до черпишь
France - Bonjour cheres amis!
Germany - welcome guys!
And all other lonely readers from all over the world - Lithuania, Italy, Macedonia, Slovenia, England, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and anyone I missed - you are very very welcome!
Best regards, Dmitry.
Tags: Hello World, Dmitry Linkov, google analytics
Maybe it’s not pure MBWA (management by walking around) examples but I think that it is very close to it. I’m happy to announce - I’m currently working as an editor of non-fiction literature in publishing house. The publishing house is a part of Respublika book/lifestyle shops and here is the history how it worked out.
The Respublika chain opened a bit more than a year ago. One of their first movements was making a livejournal community (which is very popular in Russia). They made a cafe on the second floor of the shop and if you wanted to meet administrator of the blog - you could find him there. For about 4 months I was just visiting the shop, meeting new people, employees, administrator himself. That was cool, that was fun and interesting.
After certain period of time, I talked to the administrator guy (his name is Eugene and he was a PR person at that time) about the business shelves and proposed a project - reorganization of the categories and nomenclature. I get the project and I worked for about 2 months on it - visited the shop a few days a week, met all the personnel. This wasn’t simple but wasn’t very hard also. Today I’m finishing the presentation but that’s not the point.
Being always near, always around gives you great opportunities. After the start of project - I again talked with Eugene - and he described me the project of publishing house. I started to work on it too - organized a few meetings, prepared a list of preferable books. I got no money for this - but this was interesting and I feel that my work is not in vain. Finally was the Friday meeting, where I presented and described my part of work. The result is my position.
This example shows, that personal connections and your personal investments (time and work) will give you a feedback. Of course it depends a lot of the people you work with - I’m absolutely sure of Eugene and all the team. If you feel not comfortable with the people you work just drop it.
Another small example is about my friend. He was very fond of one club-cafe. He passed there almost every evening. He got known with the barmen, than administrator and all the personnel. A year passed. He was organizing his parties in the place, played as a DJ. What seemed to be just a hobby turned out an to be an opportunity. And even now, when the place is closed for reconstruction, his connections allowed him to be a DJ in a very popular Moscow cafe.
Tags: mbwa, management, respublika, publishing
Dear friends. Can you please help me? If anyone read Buzzmarketing - I need your opinion about the book. Do you like it? Did it gave something to you?
Links:
http://www.buzzmarketing.com/
Amazon - here
Fabulous blogger Kathy Sierra stops blogging because of some morons. The story is here.
Just want to say - Kathy all the best to you! I hope the police will take care of those who are after it.
Presentation Zen blog is fabulous! Check out the fresh analysis of John Mackey presentation here
