There’s been lots of blog activity on and around the recession recently. I’ll report some of that now and when I can wrench myself away from the day job, I’ll write some real actual articles!
BGN Entrepreneur says ‘pay-per-post’ blogging is a way to get yourself out of recession blues. I’ve never tried it - you?
Cheviot Charlie’s [...]
No - I don’t have the answer yet, but in my recent skatings around the Twitterverse, I’ve found lots of mentions of the recession and how people think they will turn it into personal success stories.
You may have seen my own Twitter monitor of new ideas and products propagated by individual ‘Tweeps’ as @Idea_Flurry .
A simple [...]
Another flurry of advice on how to succeed when everyone’s telling you the world’s collapsing …
Plenty of opportnities for architects, so says the Architects’ Journal
Hmm, mistresses have become the latest victims of the recession, according to the Telegraph
Matthew Stuart writing in The Big Money suggests that there will be many more openings for those without [...]
There’s lots of research and talk out there on the psychology of recession. Some interesting takes:
Some sociologists argue that there’s evidence that a recession can increase ‘happiness’. Profs Mel Bartley and Andrew Oswald talk on Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed (the listen-again feature will be available for some time - listen in at around the [...]
An old acquaintance popped the question “How’s business?” He’d never asked this before. He’d never even shown any interest in my businesses. Just for a second, I considered answering, “Oh, it’s terrible. I had to sell the house. And as for my staff, it’s just too bad.”
Instead I told the truth: that my IT company [...]
Even the PR industry has decided to get some PR out on how to keep itself in business during a recession.
Downturn worries to tackle in PR Success Monthly’s new newsletter include:
newspapers getting thinner - less room for PR targets
luck - solution: get lucky (well at least be prepared)
scepticism - take time to win over the [...]
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