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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Except for all the other times, now’s the best or worst time to start a small business
Recently a writer for a national magazine (that’s not about business) interviewed me for a story he was working on about starting a small business. As such interviews usually end up getting whittled down to a sentence quote from me, … Continue reading
Posted in small business, smallbusiness.com
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A little less talk and a lot more action
When most people hear there is a government agency backing bank loans for small businesses, they think, “wow, that’s sure a nice thing the government is doing — supporting small businesses.” However, anyone who owns a small business who has … Continue reading
Posted in observation, politics, small business
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Five Reasons Domains Are Still Important
This post, including the title, is my reaction to a blog post from Evan Williams, titled, Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important. Ironically, I agree with everything he writes, except one: the title. So this isn’t a negative reaction, … Continue reading
Posted in business, identity, internet, search, small business, twitter
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Hints for creating small business and non-profit Twitter Lists
[Notes: You can view all my "Thoughts on Twitter" posts displayed chronologically here: http://www.RexBlog.com/thoughts-on-twitter.] During the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a few minutes each day creating Twitter Lists as part of a set of directories on SmallBusiness.com (a … Continue reading
Posted in small business, Thoughts on Twitter, twitter
Tagged small business, SmallBusiness.com
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An important lesson in business success: Use your product
[Note: I am going to start doing more small business related posts here. When I do, I'm going to add relevant links to the wiki-model resource SmallBusiness.com, which, as a matter of disclosure, is owned by Hammock Inc.] TechCrunch posted … Continue reading
A fun Google Maps experimental tourist tool that could grow up to be a valuable work tool
The best feature of the experimental Google Maps City Tours may nowbe the “remove” button. But with some time and tweaks,this could be a great sight seeing — or business planning — tool. Via Seach Engine Land and Steve Rubel … Continue reading
Dell joins Facebook to friend small businesses
Today, Dell’s Small & Media Business (SMB) online marketing group launched a Facebook “community and guide” (translation: page) designed to help educate small business owners on “how to harness the power of social media to reach and serve their customers.” … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, small business, social media, social networks
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Is Google a black hole for companies it acqhires?
On May 11, 2005, I first used the term “acqhire” and was so amused with myself that I appended the post to define it: “When a large company ‘purchases’ a small company with no employees other than its founders, typically … Continue reading
IKEA, Nashville, small business. How could I not blog about this?
I’m aware of IKEA’s success and fan-following, but I’ll admit, when it comes to shopping for anything that doesn’t plug in, I try to avoid all forms of the retail experience. But even in Nashville, where we have no IKEA, … Continue reading
Having a “fixed mind-set” can prevent you (and your company) from reaching your potential
[Note: After posting this, I discovered (via Merlin Mann) the video I've embedded below. In it, Ira Glass describes the gap between our taste and our ability to execute at that level when we begin working in a new medium. … Continue reading
Posted in observation, small business
Tagged Carol Dweck, small business, Tiger Woods
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Noise (and not just the information kind) is the next frontier
A WSJ op-ed piece by Michael Malone contains some rather profound observations about the future of job security. Continue reading
Youthful entrepreneurship in America is a modern notion that is three-hundred years old
Recently on this blog, I dipped my toe into a debate about the age of individuals who start and run businesses. My point then (and now) is that while intuitively convincing, the empirical evidence related to business creation and success … Continue reading
Valleywag: Is 30 too old to start a company?
I must admit, using the headline question “Is 30 too old to start a company?” is a great way to generate comments and links. And, no doubt, in certain business niches — VC-backed online startups based in the Silicon Valley, … Continue reading
The challenge of startup partnerships
Yesterday, I said I don’t like blogging about the “transactions” of magazines. That declaration, of course, leads to one of the rules of blogging I’ve discovered during the past six or so years: Whenever you say you don’t blog about … Continue reading
