Mining the Store Podcast http://www.miningthestore.com Mining the Store is about helping small business owners to mine more gold from their business without having to move so many rocks, using modern business tools to their best advantage. Web 2.0 has leveled the playing field, giving the small business the chance to be heard right along side the biggest companies in the world. en Creative Commons mike@miningthestore.com Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Fri, 09 May 2008 11:19:00 GMT 180 Helping small business find more gold nuggets without turning over so many rocks. Mining the Store is about helping small business owners to mine more gold from their business without having to move so many rocks, using modern business tools to their best advantage. Web 2.0 has leveled the playing field, giving the small business the chance to be heard right along side the biggest companies in the world. small business, retailing, social networks Mike Buckley mike@miningthestore.com Mike Buckley http://libsyn.com/podcasts/miningthestore/images/LOGO.jpg Mining the Store Podcast http://www.miningthestore.com Clean How important are small businesses to the U.S. economy? http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=337575#

    Small firms:
    â Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
    â Employ about half of all private sector employees.
    â Pay more than 45 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
    â Have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the last decade.
    â Create more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
    â Supplied 22.8 percent of the total value of federal prime contracts in FY 2006.
    â Hire 40 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer
    workers).
    â Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
    â Made up 97 percent of all identified exporters and produced 28.6 percent of the known
    export value in FY 2004.
    â Small innovative firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than large
    patenting firms, and their patents are twice as likely as large firm patents to be among the
    one percent most cited.

    Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Advocacy-funded  research by
    Kathryn Kobe, 2007 (www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs299tot.pdf); Federal Procurement
    Data System; Advocacy-funded research by CHI  Research, 2003
    (www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs225tot.pdf); U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor
    Statistics, Current Population Survey; U.S. Dept. of Commerce, International Trade
    Administration.

]]> general Fri, 9 May 2008 11:19:00 GMT http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=337575# small business, statistics, importance to the economy Mike Buckley Clean Episode 3 http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=335038#
There's no "I" in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your comment to mike@miningthestore.com.  If you'd like to leave an audio comment, you can attach an mp3 file to your email.

Skype users can leave an audio comment at mike.buckley3.

Our music is called "Shenandoah" and it's by Larry Allen Brown from the Garage Band web site, find it here.

Mining the Store is a member of the blubrry podcast network, http://www.blubrry.com.

According to my wife, I should lighten up, so welcome to Mining the Store Lite--half the fat and calories of our regular podcast with all the flavor.

Looking for great free software?  Here are two "best of" links.  PC Magazine's "Best Free Software" and CNET's "Webware 100".

Results of our field trip to Branson, MO, the "live entertainment capital of the United States."

Could your keyboard be 500 times dirtier than your toilet seat?  The BBC says yes.

MTS finally gets into Twitter.  It's a lot more than we thought it was.

Check out what I do at my day job at the Mine Your Own Business blog.
]]> podcasts Fri, 2 May 2008 04:14:00 GMT http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=335038# mike@miningthestore.com Branson, QuikTrip, free software, Twitter, BBC, Mine Your Own Business Mike Buckley Episode 3 Clean It's My Podcast and I'll Brag If I Want To http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=326178#

When it comes to strenuous physical exercise, I can watch someone else do it all day.  If that someone happens to be related, I'm definitely there.

Yesterday, son Tim completed the St. Louis Half Marathon (that's thirteen point one miles) in a time of 1:51:45.  With gasoline at more than $3.00 per gallon, I'm lucky to drive 13.1 miles in under two hours.

Seriously, his mother and I are very proud of him.  Through diet and exercise he has trimmed down and gotten himself into excellent shape.  We've seen him running mile after mile during the sometimes brutal St. Louis winter to reach this point.  Training to be a distance runner is a very lonely and solitary pass-time.  It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to push yourself out the door in sub-freezing temperatures, often in the dark, to do the training necessary to compete in a spring long-distance race.

Oh, yeah.  While he wasn't running, he's been doing the work necessary to receive his master's degree and to accept a teaching position at a local university. 

To stay with the theme of Mining Your Own Business, persistence is one of the most important traits any entrepreneur can possess.  Much like Tim's training, sometimes you have to push yourself out the door when you'd really rather go back to bed.  But it's that extra effort that marks the difference between champions and the rest of us.
]]> Shameless Self-Promotion Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:47:00 GMT http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=326178# mike@miningthestore.com persistence, shameless self promotion, hard work Mike Buckley Clean Episode 2 http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=323554#
There's no "I" in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your comment to mike@miningthestore.com.  If you'd like to leave an audio comment, you can attach an mp3 file to your email.

Skype users can leave an audio comment at mike.buckley3.

Our music is called "Shenandoah" and it's by Larry Allen Brown from the Garage Band web site, find it here.

Mining the Store is a member of the blubrry podcast network, http://www.blubrry.com.

The Shane Company

Blendtec--Makers of the Total Blender

Show notes:

A review of Joseph Jaffe's latest book, Join the Conversation--How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialog, and Partnership.

Links:

Ark Building for Dummies--No link.  I made it up.  It hasn't rained 40 days and 40 nights......yet.

Join the ConversationpHow to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialog, and Partnership

Jaffe Juice, the blog and podcast

My review of JTC on Amazon.com





]]> podcasts Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:54:00 GMT http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=323554# mike@miningthestore.com joseph jaffe, join the conversation, web 2.0, social media, small business Mike Buckley Clean Episode 1 http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=315542#
There's no "I" in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your comment to mike@miningthestore.com.  If you'd like to leave an audio comment, you can attach an mp3 file to your email.

Skype users can leave an audio comment at mike.buckley3.

Our music is called "Shenandoah" and it's by Larry Allen Brown from the Garage Band web site, http://www.garageband.com/song?%7Cpe1%7CS8LTM0LdsaSlZFO_ZGE.

Mining the Store is a member of the blubrry podcast network, http://www.blubrry.com.

Show notes:

Backup and Save--Don't do as I say, do as I do. Save your work regularly and whatever you do, backup your files and store the backup media away in a location away from your computer. Mine Your Own Business is the Tacony Corporation blog.

MyMoney.gov
Here's something free from your favorite uncle, Uncle Sam. Good consumer advice available by mail or download.

Keith Burtis' Magic Woodworks
Keith used the power of social media to sell out of his hand turned wooden bowls and earn enough money to pay off his fiancee's engagement ring, just in time to pop the question at Podcamp Toronto.

Joseph Jaffee is a social media guru, and author of Join the Conversation.

Kappy's Department Store--My first job (at age 14) introduced me to the best retailer I've ever known. And he didn't even own a computer. Social media tools are just that---tools. Don't let the tool get in the way of the conversation.



]]> podcasts Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:44:00 GMT http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=315542# mike@miningthestore.com small business, web 2.0, social media Mike Buckley Clean Episode 0 2/7/08 http://miningthestore.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=304961# Welcome to the Mining the Store podcast, episode 0.

Links:

Our music is Shenandoah by Larry Allen Brown, from the Garage Band web site. http://www.garageband.com/song?%7Cpe1%7CS8LTM0LdsaSlZFO_ZGE

Mine Your Own Business, the Tacony Corporation blog.  http://www.tacony.com/myob.

Squidoo.         http://www.squidoo.com

LinkedIn.        http://www.linkedin.com

Facebook.       http://www.facebook.com

MyRagan.       http://www.myragan.com

Del. icio.us.     http://www.del.icio.us.

Second Life.    http://www.secondlife.com.

StumbleUpon.  http://www.stumbleupon.com.

Digg.               http://www.digg.com.

Google Alerts.  http://www.google.com/alerts

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