Trade at the Tip Market

Exchange Tips

The TipMarket™ is an interactive “trading post” that uses print and digital media to make possible the exchange of helpful ideas, information, and insights among leaders in the private and public sectors. Its premise is: “Experience is the best teacher; shared experienced is the best education.” It allows proven veterans who’ve “been there; done that” to make their know-how available to others – including students and teachers – in the global arena.

Exchange is facilitated through the use of lists, a time-honored tool that’s been used to convey advice and counsel since the time Moses received his list of ten “shall nots.” Lists ensure succinct, to-the-point transfers of fact and expert opinion. Plus, they’re entertaining and cost-free! Click here to check out all the benefits.

While Wikipedia strives to offer a compilation of knowledge, the goal of the TipMarket is to provide experience-flavored, practical know-how.

Your options for trading Brass Tacks Tips

Become a Tipster™

The simplest way to benefit from the TipMarket involves a round-robin tip list that is e-mailed every month to volunteer “Tipsters.” The email consists of a partially completed list of tips that are focused on a topic of critical interest to leaders, especially those in the world of business and commerce. Recipients simply tap into their personal experience to add one or more items to the list, and bounce it back to the BrainFood TipMarket. Short, relevant citations from books, blogs, and web sites can be offered too, as long as verbatim abstracts are less than fifty words in length and original author credit is provided. At the TipMarket, all submissions are combined – sometimes edited and embellished – and rolled into one big megilla BrassTacks TipList™ that’s re-mailed to each contributor.

As a participating Tipster, you can also request Tips from other Tipsters on any topic.

In addition, any professional organization or personal network in which you are a member can set up its separate TipMarket in which TipTrading is focused on members’ special interests.

It's like give-and-get e-mail "chain letter." If you consent, we'll add you to our published roster of Experts Emeritus. Of course, you can un-volunteer at any time.

Completed lists are also distributed world-wide as printouts and podcasts via the BrainFoodToGo.com web portal. In addition, summary publications and CDs are compiled from aggregated feedback and distributed as compilations of BrassTacksTips to libraries, business schools, media outlets, and professional associations.

Contribute as a Source or a Scribe

There are two types of direct contributors. Either can contribute tips directly by clicking here.

A Source is person experienced in a particular field of endeavor. Sources include veteran business private sector leaders as well as teachers, authors, consultants, professionals, and bloggers who are willing to share what they've learned. These “tip donors” 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.

Scribes are tip contributors who 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. These “hunter-gatherers” not only learn a lot in the process but also make valuable personal contacts, get prominent exposure in the business world, gain professional recognition, and become eligible for special awards.

Share tips in a manner that works for you

While enrolled Tipsters generally contribute their know-how via monthly e-mail bounce backs, your know-how can be contributed in any format, from a simple one-item entry on to a long list of written or recorded tips. Written contributions can range from 10 to 1000 words. Recorded audio and video tips are also encouraged.

One of the most popular formats among TipMarket “shoppers” is the HighFiveList™, which consists of only five of the most relevant tips relating to a specific topic. Remember, the most helpful lists offer compilations of peoples’ experiences, advice, admonitions, and guidelines. They’re bare-bones, to-the-point itemizations that are important, useful, and easy-to-grasp.

There are several ways you can submit your tips:

Join a network of Tipsters Click here
Send your print or digitally prepared Tips directly to the TipMarket in an e-mail or as an e-mail attachment.
Paste-in your written contributions in the box below, too (don't worry; that teensy little box holds a lot!).

NOTICE

When necessary, we re-format and re-edit submissions to accommodate the standards expected by our audiences. Upon receipt of your submitted material, the Electromedia Technologies Corporation, creator of BrainFoodToGo.com, or the Center for Business Ownership Inc. will assume non-exclusive, unlimited rights to edit, condense, distribute, and disseminate in any manner said materials without limitation. Continuing credit will be afforded all writers and producers, and copyright protections will pr cited. If our portal manager becomes aware of a copyright or trademark claim or dispute involving any content being displayed on this portal, the material in questions will be removed immediately and efforts will be made to resolve the dispute and honor legitimate claims. Click here to review our Terms of Use.