Use Creative Thinking to Help Your Online Business Grow

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Creative thinking techniques can make your online business a success

Use Creative Thinking to Help Your Online Business Grow is created by Stephanie Diamond, founder of Digital Media Works, a marketing and interactive design agency.  She spent eight years as AOL's Marketing Director.

My Mind Mapping Column 

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Each month I take a marketing question from subscribers and show how I would approach it using a Mind Map. I provide a map you can download to use to apply to your own issue.
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A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

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Reader Feedback 

Lensmaster

Christine Kane wrote

Hi Stephanie! Great to finally find your lenses!

Reply Posted April 09, 2008

beta1070 wrote...

Hi Stephanie, thanks for the great lens. I'm hoping to put together a mindmap lens myself. Please drop in and have a look sometime.

ReplyPosted January 24, 2008

Joel_of_FearlessDreams wrote...

Nice lens Stephanie.
Take a look at my lens on Imagination.

I have a link there to a YouTube video from Tony Buzan on MindMapping that you might enjoy.

ReplyPosted May 02, 2007