http://www.gooceo.com Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:03:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Clear out your feed reader If you’re like me, while you’re in your busy mode, you’ll fall behind in your RSS feed reading. And when your Google Reader (or whichever reader you use) looks worse than your inbox, it’s time to do some clearing out. Clean your office It could be time to ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/12 The Age: Pacific Hydro and the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation have formed a carbon services joint venture called Perenia seeking to capture the market before Australia’s emissions trading scheme starts. The business will on-sell credits created through the Clean Development Mechanism, an instrument under the Kyoto Protocol. The credits will be available to ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/11 Associated Press: Amazon.com Inc.’s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones. Amazon TextBuyIt lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/10 The Wall Street Journal: As the softening economy begins to push more people into part-time jobs in place of full-time work, the part-time world is getting tougher. Take Linda Barry of Pittsburgh, a 57-year-old gas-station cashier who typically works 40 hours a week. Her employer classifies her as part-time and gives her ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/9 Forbes.com: Innovation is one of those sexy-squishy words that big companies throw around in splashy ad campaigns and white papers. Innovation implies new stuff; new stuff implies growth; and growth implies higher stock prices and beach houses in the Hamptons. But innovation isn’t just the province of the big. Just because small ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/8 Greg Winston At Inc.: I’m a born-again feminist. Yes, I know, that’s a pretty strong admission for a guy. But if my years of sales training have taught me anything, it’s the power women have in sales. There are some companies and industries — such as real estate, insurance, office equipment ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/7 Without customers, you don’t have a business. But it’s difficult and costly to land a customer. So once you have a customer, how do you keep them coming back? That’s where customer retention and loyalty programs come in. You’re familiar with loyalty programs already — the most obvious example is the ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/6 Entrepreneur: Facial coding is not an exact science, and is only now starting to find business applications. It dates back to the 1960s when San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman found that expressions are learned early and are the same in Japan and Argentina as they are in the USA. Animators have embraced ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/5 When talking to people about the benefits of business blogs I often mention “establishing your credibility.” This goes hand-in-hand with “getting killer PR.” Let’s face it, journalists are having to do more with less, so they’re more and more likely to turn to Google and other search engines to track down ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/4 A leading banking analyst has warned small businesses could end up paying higher interest rates to cover the banks’ losses in home and corporate lending.JPMorgan’s Brian Johnson says small business could pay 3% more than the 90 day bank bill swap rate, if mortgage stress now being experienced by the ... http://www.gooceo.com/business/3