Johnny Clarke
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Johnny Clarke is the Founder of Maximum Balance Foundation LLC, a company dedicated to consulting, educating, and training marketers on Internet Customer Relationship Management theory and best practices. Not one to hold secrets, Johnny is a prominent educator in the CRM industry. Oracle Certified Expert Trainer Advocate for Cisco Certified Network Centers Advocate for Best Practices in Call Center Design Author of “The Texas Two Step” A guide to reducing phone attrition in high volume call centers. Host of The Daily Brief on five syndicated channels International Speaker at more than 35 conferences Trained more than 10,000 small businesses on CRM Active CRM blogger since 2001
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@mxbalance you should be commenting on this
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Craig
What a profound and well written piece, congrats.
Before you slaughter my English, If there were a plan C well I would take it.
Embracing a bit of discomfort and taking those risks.Letting some emotion seep into the mix.And not worrying about audience response. What would happen if I did that with my little blog, I did that the risk is a well overlooked one, about to have more traction given to stem this year.
Take a look a cherry.com, or taskrabbit.com two companies with similar plans that failed in San Francisco during the last tech run up.
It is a scary new world in marketing. Today it is possible to launch a campaign without going to the marketing director if you have a good idea, because guess what if people "like" you at a good little clip, you probably know more than the average small business owner anyway.
That should be both discomforting, and risky for anyone getting paid big bucks to produce.
Maybe we try some old fashioned teaching before someone starts paying alot of money for the things that they can do themselves with a little help.
Peas
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a critical piece of information in this legislation i thought
The Recovery Act allowed businesses to write off the cost of their investments more quickly by allowing up to 50 percent deductions in the first year for investments made in 2009.
The Small Business Jobs Act extended this benefit through 2010, and the Tax Relief and Job Creation Act went one step further – allowing up to 100 percent deductions in the first year for investments made between September 8, 2010, and December 31, 2011.
It also extended 50 percent bonus depreciation through tax year 2012. Allowing expensing in 2011 will provide a crucial incentive to 2 million businesses—both large and small—to invest and create jobs in the U.S.
@mxbalance this is something I wrote what do you think?