"How to Give the Best Performance Reviews to Your Team and Employees" - a PeerFX Power Tuesdays Webinar

Here we go again! 

Our team has been traveling the country to bring on board quality salespeople, and met some interesting businesses that I thought we could feature in our webinar series. 

I came across Rypple, and I see it as an online collaborative platform that makes performance reviews, an exercise that most managers dread and most employees hate because it's vague and fluffy, easier and more cost efficient. 

It's not just for large corporations, Rypple has actually tailored its platform to small teams and growing businesses as well.  This fits right in with PeerFX's user base, and that's why their Head of Community and Sales will be sharing some tips on how to give better performance reviews, what trends are in the market today and a quick demo of the Rypple platform to show you how they can make your life easier.  It's free to try so WHY NOT?

Register for your seat today at this link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/150007648

We look forward to seeing you online next Tuesday!

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Google Mixes Live and Online Advertising

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Thank you to my brother Albert for the news.  I rarely see my brother so excited about anything related to business but here he was bubbling about this new thing Google's doing. 

You know those Google maps that show you a live street view?  Well yes...they're planning on selling ad space on those live buildings that you see on Google maps.  This means that the advertisement banner doesn't go on the REAL building...it goes on the virtual building, and because so many people use Google maps, they can actually profit off of this opportunity.

Supposedly they're filing a patent for this and some details still need to be worked out; do the real buildings get a cut of the virtual banner that is being placed on the virtual building on Google maps?

Interesting to see how this pans out but yes - definitely a great idea for Google, and maybe for advertisers as well - since they get hold of a captive audience that will most likely be in the area (or else they wouldn't be searching for the area on the map right?)

Secret Santa Online

YUP. 

It seems like everything is moving online nowadays.  My friends and I were chatting about playing Secret Santa for Christmas since for once in three years we will all be in the same part of the world, so getting actual gifts and hand-delivering them just seemed like an awesome thing to do.

Our issue: all of us are super busy workaholics, so...who wants to manage the Secret Santa game? 

No problem - there must be something online - and there it was, secretsanta.com

Apparently it has a patent-pending algorithm that does the matching.  I love how even secret santa can be patent-pending.  For all the investors out there are go googoo gaga over IP, maybe they should consider investing into that - it's patent-pending after all :)

Oh I just had to get a cheap shot out of that - I still love all you smart investors out there.

What are You Selling? Increasing Search Convenience is a Google Thing

Got this passed along to me by my advisor.

1-800-goog411. (a.k.a. 1-800-466-4411)

Google is offering a free service right now that allows you to search and connect with the company you're looking for by calling the number and answering 2 questions.

They ask you for City and Province and you answer ie: "Vancouver, British Columbia"
They then ask you for the Business Name or Type of Service ie: "Avis Car and Truck Rental"

It will tell you that it's connecting and Avis picks up the phone - extremely convenient service and I'm going to start using this.

Google's development efforts have focused on making search engines more efficient, and with this new service, they've just made searching even more "mobile". We don't even need to manually type in the phone number or go online to find these places.

Technology should make life easier and this application appears to do that pretty well. So what are you selling? To be successful you have to make sure you don't lose focus of your core benefit. For Google, it's all about making Search efficient and convenient. What's your value proposition?

Interesting Use of Cell Phones in Developing Nations

Came across an interesting article in Google Reader stating that food coupons are now given out via SMS to 1000 Iraqi refugee families.

I think this is a very good use of existing technology; and the additional fact that African farmers can now use their cell phones to find out where they could sell their crops is another useful application.

One point that struck me in the article was this:

As Foreign Policy remarks, "We've reached a very strange point in human history when it is assumed that people who don't have access to food will have working cell phones."

I wonder if we can classify this as great "market proliferation"? With the want of having a cell phone now becoming a need of having one?

You can read the rest of the article here.