Tales from the Stone Soup Way

Free online learning course for Entrepreneurship

July 13, 2010
We have a new menu item now and its our brand new online learning course!

Give it a try it comprehensive and free! SO CLICK HERE

It is fully interactive and multimedia and was produced by the great guys at the Alison online university.

Once you have completed the course you can even get a certificate and we will send you to a special page with some great extra free tools to really get your business off the ground.

So what are you waiting for? There has never been a better time to start your business!

 

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Our First App

June 21, 2010
My Grandfather used to say if you want to get something done ask a busy person!

So I am very happy to announce that I have taken my own time management systems and put them into our first Stone Soup Software APP for the iPad.

Its called iNow and you can buy it directly on the Apple App store for you iPad and it is designed to give you a better handle on what you need to be doing right now.

Based on the kinds of systems Air Traffic controllers use to manage a lot of things to do at once iNow make...
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Another great book

March 29, 2010
The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

Enjoyable though his prose is Tim Ferris has a very good message in the way me recommends that lifestyle design is both possible and important for the average person in the world. When you look deeply into his book the premises that he puts forward that one only really needs to work four hours a week to achieve pretty much any desired outcome is undoubtedly true in the current world order.

His book is packed with interesting insights as well as practical ad...
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Small things

March 13, 2010
Counterintuitive stuff is what I am all about finding when i look at how people work. One the of the things that people do not realize is the impact of what I would call micro investment on the way people treat you.

I realized some time ago that the people I had done the most things for tended to be the ones who asked me the do the most stuff for them. After reading the book Sway I saw that all of these relationships whether they were good or bad started with a someone asking me a small favor....
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Some great books to read

February 16, 2010
Recently I have been reading some brilliant books and I want to share them with you;

The first is the best and fastest evidence based self development book ever

59 Second by Richard Wiseman

The is a truly first rate book for understanding how to communicate with people in the most wonderful and compelling way 

Just Listen by Mark Goulston

The third is a truly revolutionary book on understanding our hidden motivations

Sway by Ori and Rom Brafman

Read them all they will help to sharpen your Stone Soup...

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Come join me at Venturefest!

January 28, 2010
I am delivering a keynote speech at Venturefest York on how to make you business idea into a reality and I will also be available for a book signing and some networking.

I would love to see you there!

Where & When

Venue Name: York Racecourse, Knavesmire, York

Wednesday F...


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Come and meet me and other entrepreneurs at Venturefest in York!

January 28, 2010
I will be giving a key note speech at Venturefest on how to make you business idea really happen.

There will be a book signing as well and some networking time so i'd love to see you there!

Venue Name: York Racecourse, Knavesmire, York

Wednesday February 10th 2010.

Times:

Registration from 0800 with Exhibition open from 0830 - 1700

Breakfast Track 0730 - 0900

Drinks Recept...


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More reader feedback

January 12, 2010

HI Bill, thanks for your last message, will dig further into neo.org, last time it bounced me out as technical error, but have profile now and can move into it. I do not yet fully understand the neo, but I really really love it.

 

I have finished reading your book – but not at all digesting it (little pun there !). I found reading it very odd – I’d be coasting along thinking oh yeah I know that, been there done that and suddenly there was a little 45 degree turn that caught me off guard. ...
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Reader impressions

January 10, 2010
Hi Bill,

I read the rest of your book yesterday, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to anyone starting up or in business already.  I read a lot of business books but this was the best one I’ve read in a long time.  Your recipe for stone stoup is a great summary, here are 10 things that stuck out for me in the book:

  1. Emotion – The importance of establishing an emotional relationship when you are going do to business with that person.  I’ll particularly watch out for this ...
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Response from a reader about management and the emotional bond.

January 8, 2010
Hi Bill,

As a manager in previous companies I was always able to get my team to work really well together even under intense pressure in start up companies with limited resources and deadlines we could not miss.

After reading Chapter 2 I realise that it was my ability to build up a 1 to 1 personal connection with each person in the team and I did this everywhere I went.  It didn’t matter what type of personality each person had in the group I was still able to build up that connection.

One tim...
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