I love the job board business but could never have imagined the roller coaster ride that it is... sometimes talking to other job board people is just good therapy, because many of these things or some variation on them will happen to everyone sooner or later. This morning, I started this list in frustration after a database server crash.

Competition

Inspired by Sahar's how to ruin your health, here's my advice for how to fail in business on the Internet:

10. Write long e-mails, click more, faster. Most people read carefully and repetitive strain injuries do not happen to entrepreneurs.

9. Think about nothing but your business as long as you are awake. Do that 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, year in and year out. It’s good for your health and relationships too!

8. Stay highly focused. Avoid networking and do not attend events outside your niche. You can get more done at your desk than anywhere else.

In the past, we’ve only hired local sales people but we’re looking at the possibility of hiring remote reps. I know it’s hard to find employees in South Florida and I was wondering if you have any staff that works remotely and if so is there anything you can tell me that would help us?

My answer -- you can't afford not to. We tried for years to grow our sales team by hiring locally. We would hire-train-fire and then repeat. But all the while, I was watching Don Firth (friend and fellow Florida job board entrepreneur) grow his sales team three and four times as fast by hiring virtually from around the country.

The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil

This is a difficult topic for me to write about. I’ve been dogged by health problems since my second daughter was born four and a half years ago. But for a number of reasons I’ve said little about my struggles to the LatPro team.

If you read Guy Kawasaki, Jim Collins, Pat Lencioni, Verne Harnish and other  top gurus, you may develop truly world class mission statements, values, brand promise, and strategy.   But  if you don't communicate them well, they won't take you nearly so far.  Here's how to make sure you communicate these things well.  

From the co-authors of ¨Made to Stick¨, brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath comes their
manifesto, ¨Talking Strategy: Three Straightforward Ways to Make Your Strategy Stick¨.

I especially enjoy sports and coaching movies because they often provide a great metaphor for business life. Here's a list of the ones I've enjoyed:

The Heart of the Game

There's a great post today on Guy Kawasaki's blog about the mind-set of successful people - whether you are hiring, managing a team or raising kids, this is an important principle.  Search for people who love to learn and grow.  Praise effort not talent.  It's one of the core concepts of Brad Smart's TopGrading interview system which is the best recruiting how-to I've seen.

Guy writes:

Jack Welch has a great column in Business Week about the balance between managing for short and long term results. The question was "Since there is such a bias in the markets for short-term results, how can you prepare for the long term?"

The answer: "In a word, that's management!"

He uses examples from a couple of key areas to show that this balancing act between short and long term results is what good management is all about.

Here's an interesting outline of the ten most common name types with pros and cons for Tech companies:

This post illustrates ten name categories that account for all the names in the TechCrunch company/product index. Though most of the TechCrunch names are “Web 2.0″ names, there’s nothing particularly Web 2.0 about the categories. They all represent linguistic naming strategies that can be used for companies or products of any kind.