Promises that inspire me

Promises that inspire me

Have been doing a lot of rethinking about life and business lately. Did tons of research of various companies and found these few business promises (company tagline) that are super inspiring and caught my eyes right away.

Promises (to me) means the expectation you set with your community (or partner, customers, suppliers essentially your ecosystems) when they first walk in to your store, your website or hearing your messages and all for the first time.

Why should they care and spend more time with you?

Check this out!

Muji
We would like our customers to feel that rational sense of satisfaction that comes with “this is best,” but with “this is enough.” “Best” becomes “enough.” There are degree of “enough,” however. Muji aims to the standard of “enough” to the greatest extent possible. By raising the bar of what denotes “enough,” we cast away that resignation and slight dissatisfaction; we create a new dimension of “enough” to attain a clear and heart-felt “This is enough.”.

Meetup
Meetup’s mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.

Startup Digest
We e-mail you the best startup events every week. Enjoy! 

99Designs
Whatever you need designed, count on us to get the job done right.

Twitter
Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.
Twitter asks “what’s happening” and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately.

TED
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

Google
To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Flickr
We want to help people make their content available to the people who matter to them.

Hotfile.com
Free one-click file hosting!

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Everyday is a Bonus. Watch Oprah.

When you are doing the work you are mean to do, it feel right. And everyday is a bonus regardless you are getting paid.

Watch this amazing speech by Oprah at Stanford Commencement Address. Love it…

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Nano Blogging

It’s Friday! Watch this video and LOL.

140 characters messages are way too long.

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Commercial Without Words

I have no idea what they are saying. But this is a COOL commercial.

Kinda like the Mendelssohn’s piano music I used to play ‘Song without Word’. You don’t need to know lyric to understand what they are saying.

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How to Use Meetup to Generate Buzz for Events

A friend ask me over email “3 tips for using Meetup.com to generate buzz for events”…

Since no one has ever asked me before… I decided to put it on my blog so I would remember. :)

1) Be Relevant
Why would people want to attend your meetup?
Why would people ever want to spend two precious hours of their time with you?
Give them the benefits. Give them a reason that matters. Give them something relevant that they feel it’s worth while.  At the end of the day, if you want people to come to your meetup. Think from their point of view and give what they want and hungry for.

If you are running a classical music lover group, may be “An intimate evening with Yo Yo Ma”?
If you are running a cooking group, may be “5 Cooking Tips from Thomas Keller?”?

2) Be Unique
What make you different from everybody else? May be the people, the benefits, the vibe, the meeting spots, the whatever, however, or the whoever.
Whatever it is… It got to be something that worth talking about.  And something that YOU can truly stand by.

Your meetups are like one of those many magazines on the rank. Think about the one that you would pick up. That’s the one you want your meetup to be.

3) Be Real

I tried to copy other gurus and their marketing styles before. Trust me. I tried. And it was a disaster and it did not work.
Not because the tactics weren’t good. It just wasn’t real and I couldn’t stand by it. When you are not being you, people could smell it and sense it. Meetup is about people, face to face. People know when your tone changes. People know when you sound different. Just be yourself and you will be a lot happier being an organizer.

Anyway… being a meetup organizer is not easy.

Being a successful one is definitely hard work.

Being a successful and happy organizer is even harder!

At the end of the day, don’t try to be everything for everyone. Create your own rule and own niche. Do your best to serve and give your people (whoever they are) your best (your standard, not theirs). That’s what meetup is all about.

Your pal. Your people. Not all people, but your kind of people who really gets you.

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Twitter in Plain English

Been hearing everyone trying to explain what Twitter is.  Why don’t everyone just watch this video?

The bottom line is… as much as you think it’s crazy that people tweet about what they eat, watch, drink or think wherever and whenever.

Deep down…when you see someone follow you. You feel like somebody care.

When someone cares, you tweet.

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Time Flies…

Michael Altshuler once said: “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

So… have you figured out where you are going yet?

Photo by serhio

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When Social Media Merges with Traditional Media…

It’s way cool and it happened today! I watched the Inauguration with CNN live and Facebook and I love it!

Here is where you would find out real time:

  • Guy’s son got dressed up to watch Obama
  • The crowd is chanting Obama, Obama, Obama
  • Carlos is holding back his tears while watching
  • Mary is singing while watching
  • Jimmy’s daughter interviewed Jimmy Carter on Obama


It’s this cool or what?

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I Am Because You Are

Is our world really too small?

Our time really too short?

Our wisdom too limited?

Watch Bill Clinton explain this magical word: Ubuntu.

I am because you are.

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How to Ask Your Customers to Put Up with You

When your products or services are not in perfect shape…

May be you can … Acknowledge it. Make fun of it. Or even highlight it?

Here is an example …

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