by Jono Bacon | Feb 5, 2021 | Leadership, Personal Development, Uncategorized
Are you feeling confused, stressed, or have some issues about your business/career that you need to resolve? If so, you’re in the right place. This video covers how to have an executive session with yourself so you can keep growing as a person and business....
by Jono Bacon | Feb 3, 2021 | Marketing, Uncategorized
Pop quiz! Who is your target audience? It should be an easy question to answer, but how specific can you be? When you’re creating content, do you have a well-defined avatar in mind? An honest answer for a lot of content creators would be, “Eh…sort of.” Indeed,...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
You spend hours crafting a beautiful blog post full of fancy graphics and eye-opening statistics, with a couple of amusing anecdotes thrown in for good measure, but almost nobody in your target audience reads it. They don’t even make it past the headline. It’s a...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2021 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage
A while back when I was promoting People Powered, I was invited to go on a podcast all about consulting. As a consultant, it is rare that I get an opportunity to be interviewed about the business itself as opposed to the focus and subject of my work. Little did I know...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 11, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage
Recently I was introduced to Coda – a platform that aims to re-invent the document – bridging live data, views, and more to enable people to collaborate more effectively together. What really struck me, aside from the technology, is how well designed and...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 28, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage
I first discovered Allan Dib when I read his book, ‘The One Page Marketing Plan’. It was refreshing: there weren’t the glitzy, sensationalist, unrealistic techniques that some of the marketing gurus use – it was simple, effective, practical...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 6, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage
Mark Shuttleworth has weaved a fascinating story in his life so far. He founded and sold his company, Thawte, was the first South African in space, created one of the most popular open source projects, Ubuntu, and has built a successful company, Canonical. There is...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 28, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage
There is little doubt that realtime discussion, collaboration, and chat has had a significant impact on businesses and communities. While Slack has risen as a dominant leader, open source powered Mattermost has gone on to grow more and more significantly as a powerful...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 22, 2020 | Community
There’s a saying from the famous movie “Field of Dreams”: “if you build it, they will come.” While inspiring, that’s just not always true, in fact, many times things go the opposite way when it comes to community building. Sometimes instead of bums on...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 20, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage, Uncategorized
We are all familiar with the venture capital model: invest money into a company, provide advice and guidance to help them succeed, and work towards a positive exit. Unusual Ventures are taking a very different approach. Unusual focus on embedding members of their team...
