The Fortune 5,000,000 is what Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson from 37signals describe as the countless small businesses and organizations that continue to go underserved by creative professionals. These small businesses (ie. local restaurants, clothing and boutique shops, bookstores, success startups, grocery stores, car dealers, film companies, etc.) make up the largest percentage of businesses in the US.
As stated in one of their posts…
“It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000. Forget the enterprise market. Forget the mid-sized company market. Build for the smallest of small companies and you’ll find a thirsty, neglected market waiting for you.” -37signals
However, what we read about in newspapers, blogs and magazines, and hear about on the news and radio are the successes and failures of large and popular companies. These companies make the cover of the New York Times and CNN headline news. They boast hundreds and even thousands of employees with millions and billions of dollars in annual revenue. And for decades, the overarching focus for many creative professionals has been to market their creative services to these types of companies. Why? The bigger the company, the bigger the account.
But what continues to go underserved are the Fortune 5,000,000. [...more]
I started using Twitter in April of 2008. Fairly new to this phenomena, I set up an account after catching wind of it from a close friend of mine. I spent the first few hours trying to figure out how this social network would catch on. By the end of the week, I was hooked. Since then, I’ve met hundreds of people, built new relationships and contacts, and have seen Twitter grow from 400,000 to over 7,000,000 in just a year. Now, everybody’s on Twitter. You’d be surprised to find your parents on it. lol.
However, some of us are a little more addicted to Twitter than others. Sad to say, Twitter has become a part of our lifestyle. With an average of 27,000,000 tweets a day flying across the web and mobile devices, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to see cases of people being diagnosed with an addiction to Twitter. Can you imagine an MTV episode of “True Life: I’m a Twitterholic”?
Here are 10 signs that you may be a Twitterholic: [...more]
Twitter is easily becoming one of the fastest growing social networks of all time. With that said, more and more people are using Twitter to connect with friends, find jobs, build networks, market products, build businesses and brands, or just to share what’s happening in their world. However, what I’m discovering is that many people have succumb to the old Myspace-ways of using fake usernames as their Twitter names. Though this may seem really insignificant, and almost not even worth bringing up, I want to push back to and say that this may be more important than you think. From my observation and personal experience of being an avid Twitter user, I’ve compiled…
“What if 300,000 people did the same act of kindness a day” -DoGoodMovement
What if you and me and a whole bunch of other people all over the world could join together every 24 hours to inject GOODNESS back into this world? What if we could join forces through technology and the web, and collectively make a difference? Whether big or small; complex or simple; public or private?
