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Idea: (self-)promotion doesn’t work

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There are two business models: You can solve a problem, get recommendations, solve other problem, get more recommendations; Another one is bragging „I’m so good, look at me!”; promoting yourself all over places. I think it’s better to use the first model (personal recommendations) rather than the second one (self-promotion); of course, you can do some self-promotion, but this should not be the key factor; other people’s recommendations count more. The search engines, who put much more emphasis on a link you get from other web sites than your own, knew this for years. Main takeaway – let others do the promotion for you; it’s more believable. I got this idea from Vlad STAN (Twitter), at the Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. My follow-up: 2011.09.15 Vlad STAN at Coaching Support Group Bucharest.

Idea: Constantly communicate with your target audience

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How about this? Constantly communicate with your target audience. So, if you have a Facebook group, keep it alive; Twitter? Communicate constantly; newsletter? Set a frequency and keep it; you should constantly blog with a defined frequency; So, the main idea – whatever your channel of communication is (Twitter, Facebook, email, newsletter, blog, forum), you should keep a constant flow of communication with your audience. Constant. I got this idea from Vlad STAN (Twitter), at the Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. My follow-up: 2011.09.15 Vlad STAN at Coaching Support Group Bucharest.

Follow-up: Vlad Stan at Coaching Support Group Bucharest (Noble Manhattan training center, 2011.09.15)

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On 2011.09.15, I enjoyed a presentation by Vlad STAN (Twitter) at Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. The event was organized as part of Noble Manhattan Coaching Support Bucharest. Contact person was Andreea VORONEANU and I was invited to the support group by Alina BUZATU. Below you’ll find some notes, photos and ideas I got from the event.

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Password strength

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A password can be like this: a. anahasapples – or like this: b. ana8has8apples8 – or like this: c. uiY5*bmR*)($H; The thing is, it’s easier to decipher a password only with letters (a.) , than one with letters and numbers (b.) or one with special characters and both lowercase and uppercase letters. But, in my opinion, the person deciphering a password should have the information that your password is only numbers / letters / special characters. How would perfect password look like? In a lot of people’s opinion, in the above example, it would looks something like: c. uiY5*bmR*)($H. My opinion? The perfect password is this: ana8has8apples8and3she3really3likes3them9a9lot (or a similar model). It’s much easier to remember a password with real words than a password with complicated strings. And it is, actually, harder to decipher than a complicated password.