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 Some of the most valuable BrainFood is served in the form of Brass Tacks Tip Lists which contain insights, advice, and admonitions culled from the experiences of proven business leaders and thinkers. The gems of acumen provided on each list are personally provided by expert "sources" or solicited from them by third-party "scribes." 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.
Send us lists of tips that have worked for you and we'll share them on our BrainFood menus. Each list can contain any number of tips on a single topic as long as each tip included is succinct, to the point, and actionable. Get more details at the BrassTacks TipLists FAQs. Any relevant topic can be covered, no matter how narrow or specific, although most fall into one of four general categories: Becoming an owner of a business; successfully leading a business; profitably growing an enterprise; and harvesting the personal wealth a business represents.
One of the easiest ways to benefit from these lists is to become a Tipster and contribute personally to one of our monthly, e-mailed "wiki-lists." The valuable tips gathered far and wide from these "chain letters" are compiled and redistributed to all participants. It's a great way to get and give practical advice on a wide variety of topics. To learn more, click here. To sign up as a Tipster or to request the compilation of a TipList of interest to you, fill out the form at the bottom of this page.
While Brass Tacks Tip Lists can assume any form, those formatted as High Five Lists seem to be the most popular. A High Five List focuses on a narrow topic and contains only five items, so list creators must focus and prioritize; they must be on-point and succinct so that their contributed wisdom can be easily found and put to work. Written lists can be submitted via the form below or e-mailed as attachments to info@brainfoodtogo.com in the form of Microsoft Word files of PDF files. Lists can also be submitted in the form of audios (as MP3 or WAV files) or as video interviews (as MP4 video files). Find out more about the value of lists by clicking here.
To review some important FAQs concerning the creation of Brass Tacks Tip Lists and the benefits they can provide, click here.
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Who can contribute?
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Sources are list-creators who are personally experienced in a particular field of endeavor, like teachers, authors, consultants, professionals, SCORE volunteers, and business folks who are willing to share what they've learned. These list creators get great satisfaction from knowing that their hard-earned knowledge is becoming part of a valuable, timeless archive and that it will be put to productive use by other ambitious business leaders. They get deserved recognition for their efforts and experiences.
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Scribes solicit insights from other recognized authorities. These list compilers include students, journalists, bloggers, publishers and researchers. They obtain their input from personal interviews, books, speeches, blogs, web sites, and other, often-overlooked caches of knowledge. Our dedicated "list rustlers" learn, make valuable personal contacts, get prominent exposure in the business world, establish visible links to their web sites, and gain professional recognition. 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.
Special benefits for contributors to the BrainFood TipMarket
Gems of peer-to-peer operating advice are available via e-mail, RSS syndication and e-mail. It’s actionable know-how that's flavored by the experiences, challenges, successes, and failures encountered by seasoned movers and shakers. The BrainFoodToGo.com portal features menus of hot, current topics as well as extensive archives. If a particular, narrow topic isn’t already covered, a new list-making initiative can be quickly launched to collect the input sought. The easily-accessed BrainFood menus consist of lore, lists, legends, legacies, and life-learning that’s condensed and formatted into books, printable lists, and downloadable audio and video podcasts.
Ambitious workers can initiate bottom-up requests for assistance in list-making from other team members in their companies. Such a list-motivated project can provide aspiring employees with opportunities to meet more seasoned leaders in higher echelons of the company. It’s a great way to connect with a mentor! In turn, company leaders get opportunities to meet with and evaluate talent within a business.
Learners enjoy easy, convenient access to a huge assortment of learning resources compiled by experienced professionals in the (real) world of business. If fact, list projects provide a reason to arrange one-on-one interviews with “mighty moguls” to get their feedback on list topics. In the process, students can learn real-world lessons and make important contacts in the job market. Students can even insert links in their resumes to their list creations that are posted on the web. Lists can also be a big help in writing a term paper or completing a research assignment. While students can plaster their faces in “FaceBook,” lists can help them show off their brains where it really counts!
Members of campus professional organizations and fraternities can compile books and podcasts of BrassTacksTipLists and related BrainFood that include their work product as well as contributions of alumni and other business leaders whose inputs they recruit. These books can be branded and marketed to alumni and the general business community. It is a great way of generating “town and gown” interaction.
Teachers can use the TipMarketand related BrainFood as instructional components for classroom presentations and distance learning courses. In addition, list-making can generate valuable content for made-to-order – inexpensive – textbooks or student reference materials. List projects employing multiple media can also provide a great alternative to the dreaded term paper. Further, list-making assignments can provide a platform for all-important collaborative learning that allows students to search, select, and synthesize facts, and convert disparate information into worthwhile knowledge. Faculty members can the use BrainFoodToGo.com portal to conveniently and quickly publish their articles and research papers, too.
Lists provide an exciting way to continually engage alumni and establish all-important connections between them and members of the student body and faculty. For alumni, a stream of continually updated BrassTacksTipLists provides a unique form of continuing education that will serve as a “lifetime warranty” on their sheepskins. In addition, schools can supplement their libraries’ resources with contemporary archives of BrainFood – at no cost!
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Authors, journalists, and publishers
Writers 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. 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.
Newspapers and magazines can feature lists on their business pages, thus giving their readers a chance to interact with proven business leaders.
Professional groups, including 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.
To sign up as a Tipster or to request that the TipMarket compile of a specific list of tips of interest to you, simply fill out the form below.
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