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Can’t sleep?  Why?  What gets me up and out of bed? 

Ideas I want to capture that came to me after a bit of rest.    I write them (long hand) down in my Moleskine – doing drawings. 

There is something still about the feel of paper that helps me think better – I love a good pen (Mount Blanc).  The ideas seem to flow a bit more rich when  I use paper and pen.  It’s peaceful to have a light shine down on the page in the morning rather than shine at me from a screen while I sit in my study to capture an insight that emerged from the unknown scribe that visits in my dreams.  

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A shopping mall, Wall Street, Bay Street, The Chicago Merc: the financial hub in any city.  Broadway (the theater district), Rue de Bouche, Little Italy, Chinatown, Restaurant Row, The Garment District, 5th Avenue, Rive Gauche, Rodeo Drive, Soho, Madison Avenue.

Names of places so familiar we instantly get an image in our minds eye, what they stand for when we hear one of these places by name.   We know where they are – where to go when are visiting a city.  These are the collective business voice, the “brand” of a type of activity business does.  It’s where to go, where to be, where to see and be seen.  These are places about what happens and where it happens – the “buzz”.

We go there to find out the best restaurant, fashion trend, hot show for an evening out.  When we travel we might go sightseeing as traders bounce about  a floor, or stroll down.  It’s the movement around a sector of a city where things happen.  Like constellations, its where the stars align and add up to become a business hub.

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The goal of social networking sites is to link people to people.  We created Bizabacus because we realized that people aren’t the only entities online that need to be social, and people online aren’t always searching for other people. We decided to stop discriminating against businesses when it came to social networking!

What does that mean?

Every other social network makes you sign up as a person first. People need to create fan pages on Facebook, people need to set up and maintain Twitter accounts… heck, Google+ doesn’t even want you if you’re a business.  Considering how much commerce takes place on the internet, and how people actually USE the internet, this seems like a big oversight, doesn’t it?

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