Comments on: Oh No! Not Another Good Idea

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:16:09 +0000

Sorry, not very handy with html tags…anyways, the website is http://www.squidoo.com/fundraising-1.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:09:52 +0000

Here’s something I have tried over the last month. Raising funds via Squidoo.com. I am always very skepticle of fundraising ideas, as the President of club in college, PTA President a few years ago, and fundraising for my daughter’s travel softball team, it’s interesting the way these tools have evolved.

Squidoo allows you to donate any earnings you have made to some of their organizations or keep the money for themselves by building one page websites. I like the foundation of the idea and I love building websites, so it seemed like a good opportunity to go in and check it out. The goal as I see it now (about a month in) is you have to build a network and be smart enough to gain links back and forth. And use tools such as Facebook, Digg, and Twitter to drive traffic.

We’ll see how it goes over the next 4-5 months.

To see an example, I’ve created a fundraising site caled that you can visit.

By: Amy Kincaid

Amy Kincaid — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:03:46 +0000

Another book that helped me: Never Check Email in the Morning. I wasn’t, for a while, but then Twitter and Facebook and…guess I’d better read that and Getting Things Done again! Another resource: Behance. Their approach is simple, but I do like their paper tools.

By: Ineke

Ineke — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:21:02 +0000

Here is a great tool that I have used to organize my ideas for a couple of years now. It was designed by and for creative professionals, but works great for others as well.

http://www.creativesoutfitter.com/Products/Action-Book/4

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:20:23 +0000

Too many new ideas? Sounds like many entrepreneurs I know.

Often the problem isn’t dealing with all the new ideas, it’s doing so to the excusion of those more mundane things that still need to get done. Chasing butterflies is a common
metaphor for entrepreneurial people who get lots of new ideas and chase after most, if not all, of the more exciting ones.

And yet trying new things, thinking of new things, having those “Ah Ha!” moments when a new idea comes remains critically important – it’s where major success and reakthroughs happen.

The answer, of course, is balance. While you absolutely want to be open to new ideas, they need to be viewed in the larger context and balanced against everything else competing for the scarcest resource of all: time.

One of the ways that helps me to do that is a varient on your “make a list” concept. What’s critical about new ideas is that they not be lost. If you do nothing else with a new
idea, record it, in some way that is drop-dead easy for you. I carry a voice recorder, for example.

Then, periodically, make sure you have time to *review* everything. It’s one thing to write everything down, but useless if you never look at the list again.

One framework I’ve found very helpful is that laid out in _Getting Things Done_ by David Allen. Some see it as “yet another time management book”, but for me it’s helped. I don’t follow it religiously, but it’s helped to give me a framework to work within that allows me capture, review, prioritize and appropriately act on all those new ideas that keep coming.

Leo