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Brass Tacks Tip Lists™ provide business owners with advice, insights, ideas, and suggestions from other entrepreneurs. It's more than knowledge..... it's nourishing know-how that's flavored by the experiences, challenges, successes, and failures encountered by movers and shakers who've been there; done that. 
These "recipes" are posted by our "digital diner" on all of its menus. They provide condensed, “real-world” advice and opinion that can be easily understood and quickly implemented.
Each Brass Tacks Tip List provides itemized input on a single topic. Lists offer short, to-the-point, real-world bits of advice that can be easily exchanged by folks who have similar interests, needs and experiences. After all, since the time of Moses and the Ten Commandments, lists have proven to be a powerful perfect medium for an exchange of information, ideas and inspiration. Brass Tacks Tip Lists are the easy way to share stuff that's been learned the hard way.

Here are some FAQ's that will get you started as a list-maker and list-user.  Click to get the answers.

Who can post lists?
We want lists from people like you!
  • Lists can be posted directly by list-creators who are expert sources like successful business leaders, teachers, authors, and consultants.
  • Lists can also be solicited from sources by third-party list-compilers, including journalists, students, volunteers, publishers, and bloggers.
Check out our suggestions for effective list creation. Potential list topics are virtually unlimited.    Return to the FAQs.
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What's the list format?
Brass Tacks Tip Lists can be submitted in any shape, form, or size but two specific types have proven to be most helpful…. High Five Lists and Wiki-Lists.
  • A High Five List™contains only five important, actionable “nuggets” of advice or information on a specific need-to-know topic. They're distillations of the five items that rank highest in the opinions of a list creator. Since each High Five List focuses on a narrow topic and contains only five items, list-providers must focus and prioritize their contributions. As a result, their lists are on-point, succinct and easily put to work. “Taste” a sample now.
  • Wiki-Lists™, in essence, are Tip Lists of unlimited length that are compiled by one or more parties and iteratively contributed to by others. Wiki-Lists are like "chain-letters" of lore that continue to grow in value over time. They're virtual brainstorming sessions hosted on the BrainFoodToGo.com web portal so they can be easily accessed and augmented by anybody via the Internet, and shared via e-mail, blogs, and text messaging devices. This is not a blog; all contributions are monitored for value and relevancy. Anyone can start a Wiki-List; anyone can contribute to it; anyone can benefit from it. It reduces the link between providers and users to just "one degree of separation."  Check 'em out.       
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How are Tip Lists accessed?

Thanks to the reach of today’s media, Brass Tacks Tip Lists can be accessed and used by anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world.  Contributed lists are posted regularly on the various BrainFoodToGo.com menus. They're also distributed through a wide range of other media. Expertise on demand… free of charge!
The BrainFood provided by these lists is exchanged world-wide through:
  • The BrainFoodToGo.com "digital diner" on the Internet at ►http://www.BrainFoodToGo.com  Lists can be downloaded anytime or subscribed to (free of charge) through "RSS" feed technology.
  • The SnaxToGo opt-in e-mail delivery service
  • A syndicated radio program – Live from the Digital Diner….BrainFoodToGo!
  • BrainFoodToGo, High Fives, and LotzaLists™ books
  • Syndicated BrainFood, BrassTacksTips, and Minding Everybody's Business™ newspaper columns and magazine articles
  • Educational resource packets that are made available at no cost to teachers, lecturers and seminar leaders. 

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How do I benefit by contributing lists?

Brass Tacks Tip Lists are the product of interactive participation that creates unique benefits for all involved.
  • List creators get great satisfaction from knowing that their hard-earned knowledge is becoming part of a valuable, timeless archive which will be put to productive use by other ambitious business leaders. They also get deserved recognition for their efforts and experiences.
  • List compilers learn, make valuable personal contacts, get prominent exposure in the business world, gain professional recognition, earn product discounts, obtain cash grants for their organizations, and become personally eligible for High Five Awards.
Some folks can derive extra-special benefits.
  • Business owners and entrepreneurs can share tips first-hand with like-minded peers.   
  • Employees can request for assistance in compiling a list from senior leaders in their enterprises. It’s a great way to connect with a mentor. In turn, the leaders get opportunities to meet with and evaluate talent within the company.
  • Students can arrange interviews with moguls to get their feedback on one or more list topics. In the process, they learn real-world lessons and make important contacts in the business world. The publication of their lists also provides important public recognition (students can even insert links to their creations on their resumes!). Faculty members can use this process to give their students an opportunity to learn first-hand and become known in the business world (and job market). This is also a great tool for connecting students with alumni.
  • Authors and publishers use High Five Lists as a platform to showcase books of relevance to owners and entrepreneurs. Helpful snippets extracted from a book provide immediate insight and encouragement to learn more by reading the entire tome. Each High Five List of abstracts from a book is accompanied with a web-link that facilitates purchase of the book.
  • Economic development groups like chambers of commerce can help business leaders in their communities expand their enterprises successfully and create new jobs and tax revenue. They can help promising start-ups gain the traction necessary to become major employers of the future. 
  • Journalists can employ list content in their articles or use them as "hooks" for interviews.  
  • Bloggers can cut and paste lists into their blogs and pass them along to others.
  • Upwardly-mobile achievers can solicit list content from accomplished business people they would like to know. It's a great way to wangle one-on-one meetings with movers-and-shakers … and to reward them with an important opportunity to help others.
  • Public relations pros can use lists to provide the world with insight about the people or organizations they represent.
  • Educators can exchange instructional materials with other teachers and even – believe it or not – their web-savvy, text-messaging students!
  • Newspapers can feature lists on their business pages, thus giving their readers a chance to interact with proven business leaders. Journalists can post their own lists.
  • "Affinity groups" consisting of professional groups, alumni associations, chambers of commerce, newspapers and trade associations are eligible for a free branded “click-to” BrainFoodToGo.com home page on the internet to facilitate list exchanges among their constitutents. Such a "gateway" web portal features all types of Tip Lists as well as information about activities of the hosting "community." In addition, this locally-branded, interactive web portal can also provide advertising display opportunities that will generate revenue for the host community. Click here to see what such a portal looks like. In addition, the lists gathered in each affinity community can be used to compile, publish, and distribute a “recipe” book of lists it generates, e.g. High Five Lists for Business Owners in Buffalo, New York. Hosts and sponsoring organizations are entitled to the profit on each book they sell directly or via the Internet.
No wonder Brass Tacks Tip Lists are becoming the new medium of choice for today's meritocracy.    Return to the FAQs.
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How do I create a list?
If you've got a list of tips you'd like to have included in our collection, e-mail it to us today. If you're "dry or shy" but know someone else who has some smarts to share, go out and get 'em and pass 'em on to us. We'll take as many lists as you'd like to compile or collect.  Here are some suggestions for list titles.
List-providers can gather their input from their own personal experiences, the experiences of others, and from interviews, books, speeches, blogs, web sites, and other, often-overlooked, troves of know-how. Many list-makers contribute to more than one list; to more than a single topic. Conversely, a single topic might be covered from many perspectives by a number of list-makers.
Ideal High Five Lists run from fifty to five-hundred-and-fifty words. (We can go as high as one-thousand words or more, if you're really on a roll. All supplementary content will be added as More Lore, an annotation to the list that provides "the rest of the story." Regular Tip Lists and Wiki-Lists can be of any length.
Lists can be submitted as Microsoft Word documents or PDF files and can include hyperlinks from key words in the text to supplementary material on relevant web sites.
Credit is always given to both list-providers and content sources. Such attributions can feature a contributor’s e-mail address or a link to his or her proprietary web site. When your list content is solicited from a third-party, please include his or her information so we can obtain pre-publication verification.  
Keep in mind, there are various methods for originating lists. For example, multiple lists can be submitted under the same heading, each with a unique contributor. A single contributor can contribute multiple Tip Lists on the same topic or on various topics. Or, a third-party list-compiler can engage two or more folks with differing takes on the same subject. There are a lot of provider permutations to keep you busy.
BrainFoodToGo.com is not a blog. All submitted material is screened for originality and relevance, and sources are validated before their contributions are displayed.
Simply e-mail your content and any attachments to info@BrainFoodToGo.com or snail mail it to Box xxxx, Naples FL 34119.  You can also paste your content in to box below (Don't worry about length, you'll be suprised how much that teeney box con hold!)  
If you've got questions, call us at 239-455-9393 or use the form below. All submissions become the property of BrainFoodToGo.com according to simple terms and conditions.    Return to the FAQs.  
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 OK, OK, Why five?
By keeping lists short and succinct, list-makers and their sources are compelled to provide terse, on-point input, the kind that is easy to understand and readily actionable. High Five Lists convert the archetype of traditional information dissemination in the world of business to a more modern model that is in keeping with the contemporary pace and pattern of life in the business world. Movers and shakers want their BrainFood now; they want it in a “nutshell;” they want it readily digestible; and, they want to be able use it -- and benefit from it --immediately. They want to get to the celebratory “high five” phase of their tasks as soon as possible… so it’s only logical to start with High Fives.
The number 5 has additional significance. In the early systems of numerology, the number 5 was representative of man’s attempt to rise above the chaos of the present age. Five was considered “good in the making.” “Five was called the dual number because it represents two natures, the higher and the lower, which contend for supremacy in the life of man. In his struggle between these two conflicting natures, man must contend with nervous, restless energy. His environment undergoes constant change. Life being his supreme teacher, he is brought into touch with many places, personalities and problems, each of which all yield their quota of experience and supply an abundance of material out of which to extract the qualities that make for wisdom, character and the growth of the soul.” (From: Corinne Heline, Sacred Science of Numbers)      Return to the FAQs.