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Entries Tagged as 'People Helping People'

Building Cooperative Marketing Relationships: Practicing What I Preach

January 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, Marketing Techniques and Philosophies, Networking, People Helping People, Shel's Personal Life, Web 2.0/Social Media

Cooperate with others to open new markets. It’s one of the key principles of my brand new book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson), released this week by John Wiley & Sons. The book is a manual for thriving by doing the right thing, showing businesses that Green and ethical practices aren’t [...]

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Is It Time for the “Elm Street Economy?”

January 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, Energy & Sustainability, People Helping People, Uncategorized

It must have been somewhere around 1986, in the early days of my business, that I first encountered the work of Paul and Sarah Edwards, gurus to the home-based business sector that was just beginning to take off back then. I’ve been home-based since I founded my company in 1981, so their message resonated.
I’ve been [...]

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Stand Against Injustice! Join These Two Facebook Groups

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · People Helping People, Social and Economic Justice, Uncategorized

1. Have you heard about the barbaric, fascistic anti-homosexuality law in Uganda? Yes, they’re calling for the death penalty for consensual sex. Read CNN’s article. Here’s the group to oppose it, please join.
2. Especially if you’re in Western Mass, but even if you’re not: a Facebook support group has sprung up for the Northampton, [...]

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Negroponte/Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing Countries

October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, People Helping People, Social and Economic Justice, Web 2.0/Social Media, poverty

Horace Mann, founding President of Antioch College, famously said “Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity.” Neither Nicholas Negroponte nor Iqbal Quadir will ever have to worry about shaming themselves in front of Horace Mann’s ghost.
These two M.I.T. professors have both made substantial contributions in developing countries, bringing life-changing technology [...]

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Blog Action Day “one of largest social action events ever held on the web”

October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Energy & Sustainability, People Helping People, Web 2.0/Social Media

Organizers of Blog Action Day are pleased indeed, calling it “one of largest social action events ever held on the web.”
32,000 posts, including three world leaders: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who got the very first UK post in just as the clock turned midnight–and staffers from President Obama and the ruling party of Spain.
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Easy Steps to Ease Climate Change: Blog Action Day

October 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Energy & Sustainability, Frugality/Frugal Fun, People Helping People

Today is Blog Action Day, and this year, the international day of action focuses on climate change.
I could write about climate change for days, but I’ll keep it simple. Here are some quick, easy, painless things you can do to lower your carbon footprint, and some of them will save you a nice pile of [...]

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What Would Alinsky Do? Obama Should Tell the GOP: You Won’t Negotiate? I’ll Up the Ante

August 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, People Helping People, Politics

Since the Republicans have taken a few pages from the Saul Alinsky organizing playbook—Alinsky was the legendary Chicago community organizer who influenced Obama, known for such tactics as a fart-in—maybe it’s time for Barack Obama to ask himself “What would Alinsky do?
What he wouldn’t do is capitulate. Alinksy would know, as Obama should know, that [...]

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An easy way to promote your store/office–with the power of water

August 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Service as Marketing, Energy & Sustainability, Marketing Techniques and Philosophies, People Helping People

OK, so everyone knows by now, bottled water is uncool if you live in a place where the water is fit to drink (and that includes most of the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as well as many other parts of the world). Issues include environmental impact, cost, depletion of public resources, and centralization of corporate [...]

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Networking can Happen ANYWHERE

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing Techniques and Philosophies, Networking, People Helping People

Proving yet again that you can network pretty much anywhere…I was listening to a teleclass and 37 minutes into the call, the presenter fell off. He didn’t come back on, but someone else asked if anyone was there, and I responded.
Fifteen minutes later, I had been booked as a guest on his radio show, he [...]

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Karma Bucks–Waaay Cool!

July 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, Marketing Trends/News, People Helping People

Readers of my various books will know I’m a fan of alternative locally-based currencies. Here’s a twist: A shopping center in Reno is sending street teams out all over Reno to spot acts of kindness, and reward them with “Karma Cards,” redeemable at the shopping center.
Two extra things worth noting:
The retail complex is partnering [...]

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