I want to start this off with a little challenge. I want to challenge you to get creative when it comes to growing your community. And your community is defined by anyone who arrives at your site, service or offer which an eye or interest in learning more about you. After all, if you treat your online efforts like a BUSINESS, every new visitor is a potential fan, friend, follower, customer or client, and that’s what every business needs, right? The good news?

Whenever we do exhibition shows we’re often told by local small businesses that they ‘don’t need advertising’. My usual reply is ‘why are you doing this exhibition, then?’ After all, even putting up a few standees and a table with some flyers is a form of advertising.

With the Medical industry accounting for some 15% of all Additive Manufacturing in 2009, growth for Medical Rapid Prototyping remains strong in 2012. No longer confined to the design process, researchers are continually uncovering novel and potentially lifesaving applications of Rapid Prototyping technologies.

When you first decided to work from home, either as a business owner or a freelancer, you had specific goals in mind that you wished to achieve. However, it has been 6 months since you embarked on this adventure and you are not seeing the results that you desired. Believe it or not, this is common for more freelancers and home based professionals when they first start out.

Small business strategy should always include a roadmap for innovation. Your people will engineer the products and the processes that make you competitive. By creating teams that are not just diverse in terms of ethnicity, but also in emotional intelligence or thinking styles, you can accelerate the lifecycle of invention. Of course, you can’t make people adopt different thinking styles, but you can arrange thinking styles in such a way that your group’s productivity benefits from the different perspectives. When different thinking styles rub against each other, the creative sparks will fly. This is the idea behind creative abrasion.