Making money online

Tired of your job? Start making money online!
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/22/10-new-ways-to-make-money-online/

Do not work at home!

How many of you take your work home and then lock yourself doing it? This is a very bad behavior since you are human and you need to interact with the people.. at home, in the street, in bars, in restaurants, in the disco, ... Everywhere!
In the article http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-leave-work-at-work.html you can get some nice tips to leave your work at work :)

If you want another life tips just explore the blog:
http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/

11 Expert Predictions for 2007

11 Expert Predictions for 2007 regarding strategies and campaigns used by the companies.

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/13816.asp

Web Marketing article

The basic principles of Web Marketing:
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmta/basic-principles.htm

Excelent excelent article!!

Moleskine

You say: MOLESKINE? What's that?
Answer: A notebook/agenda where you can write down your best ideas!!
You say: Big deal! Just an ordinary notebook...!
Answer: No it isn't...!! It's a notebook with a great history behind it.. take a look at http://www.moleskine.com/eng/default.htm.
If you want to buy in Portugal just go to www.moleskine.pt and check the nearest point of sale.

Downloading videos

If you want to download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace or whatever you can go to http://www.zamzar.com/ and download it. Furthermore you can use a tool provided by Zamzar and which can be downloaded in http://www.zamzar.com/tools/

For those who design web applications

http://tutorialaday.com/6-tools-for-better-web-design/

Viral Marketing

The Viral Marketing concept is the gold medalist when we talk about using our own clients to spread our company image. Till today there were various techniques to achieve this viral effect but just some of those tehniques have really resulted.
In the following paragraph I will present 6 important aspects of a viral campaign (taken from http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles.htm).
An effective viral marketing strategy:

1. Gives away products or services
2. Provides for effortless transfer to others
3. Scales easily from small to very large
4. Exploits common motivations and behaviors
5. Utilizes existing communication networks
6. Takes advantage of others' resources

If you want more information, just go to Wikipedia or Google and take a look on viral marketing and viral advertising resources.

Marketing tips

Two nice articles:

http://www.marketingprofs.com/7/Get-Free-Press-stern.asp
http://www.marketingprofs.com/7/MySpace-Marketing-Tips-bodley.asp

The first one gives you some tips and tricks on how to do marketing using the MySpace social network.
The second teaches you some nice tricks to get your company to the press and win with free publicity.

If you sell a product you must

If you look at Seth Godin's blog you will see a nice topic:

What happens when I Google you?

Basically it shows a situation where a product manager didn't accomplished its functions correctly!
If you have an online page that shows your products, as a product manager you are responsible for the availability of that page!!

Pushing Engineers to the limit

Very nice idea!!!
A management competition just for engineers: http://www.deg.ist.utl.pt/c2l/
The top 3 teams will go directly to the GMC (Global Management Challenge) where they will compete against top company managers, management students, etc. It looks like a very funny competition!! Go Go Engineers !!

eMarketing site

In my opinion the best eMarketing site on the internet is www.emarketer.com.
If you want to receive updated news just subscribe their daily newsletter and you will have fresh emarketing news in your email every day.

What about digg.pt ?

In the other day I was looking for a digg.com portuguese service and I discovered 3 nice sites:
http://domelhor.net/
http://ouvidizer.com/
http://swik.net/PORTUGAL+Gest%C3%A3o

If you want to post some news there go ahead!!

Welcome

As this is my very first post i want to welcome everybody to this blog.

The goal of this blog is to share some of my (little) knowledge in various topics:
- Infomation Technology
- Management
- Marketing
- Inovation
- Entrepreneurship
- ....

See you soon.