Bloggers Are Rushing To BlogRush

Blogsphere has launched BlogRush as a third alternative in increasing traffic to your blog. The other two choices can be expensive or time consuming. This is free and you are up and running within 5 minutes. Click here to visit their video introduction site. Also, let me know what you think about BlogRush and if you have any other suggestions on how to increase traffic to blogs?

Soaring With Eagles

I wear a yellow gold ring on my right hand shaped like the American Eagle head resting on a deep black onyx bed to remind me to Soar With The Eagles and Not to Run With The Turkeys. When I was younger I ran with turkeys as some teenagers do and although I thought of myself as a leader I was really following my chosen peer group. This was a group that saw fun in being rebellious and breaking the law. On one sunny and warm summer morning my closest friend and I spoke of breaking away from this group while sipping our hot fresh coffee in the parking lot of the local hangout. In agreement, we drove away in his white 69 VW Bug and never looked back.

Today we can look back at all the people we knew then and some are dead, some are in prison, and some are in homes. For the lucky few who broke away we raised families, grew businesses and live a rich life surround by love ones. We have no regrets and we count ourselves lucky to recognize the fork in the road and then choose the right path.

This path for me has been winding yet forward moving because I chose to remind myself daily to Soar with Eagles and not run with Turkeys. What do you use to motivate yourself to succeed and keep moving forward everyday in business and life?

I would be very curious to know how entrepreneurs keep themselves motivated to strive and thrive in life and business. Let me know.

Blog Suggestion Box

I recently created a 'Suggestions Blog' for employees to submit ideas by posting comments in various categories. This is a great idea to grow your company beyond your own ideas by leveraging the power of your own internal knowledge share network. In a true 'Think Tank' environment no idea is a bad idea. Once an idea is submitted the discussions that follow may lead to your next multi-million dollar idea. I remember learning in a Marketing class years ago about 3M and the development of the yellow Post-it notes. 3M also had a Think Tank that discussed at the time the complete failure of a super glue. A great deal of time and money was spent to create this super glue that ended up being so weak that it appeared to be good for nothing, a complete failure. After much brainstorming with many crazy ideas thrown out for consideration, one idea led to another idea and eventually the Post-it note was invented. The glue was too weak to be a super glue or any kind of multi-purpose glue but it was of the ideal strength for the Post-it note. Today there isn't an office I know of that doesn't use Post-it notes.

What are you doing to solicit ideas from your staff? How easy is it for you to collect those ideas? Have you thought of the Suggestions Blog?

YouTube

I've added 'YouTube' to my Blog and I'm not entirely sure that this is what my readers want to see so I will be excited to read the comments on this post over the next few weeks. Let me know what you like and don't like so I can make this the greatest resource for you, my readers; Entrepreneurs and Business Owners.