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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Here are five essential, efficient ways to eliminate guesswork and make your startup a success on social media. Strategy Adopted: Leveraging Social Media Analytics. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Before you can afford staff dedicated to social media, spread the duties around.

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My Favorite 2014 Trend is Boomer-Millenial Partnerships

Up and Running

And I just read his Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2014 and once again, it’s great food for thought. I see it happening, anecdotally, both around my local community in Eugene, Oregon, and around my online community in social media, LivePlan, and so forth. My personal favorite this year is this: 8. And both generations need it.

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Some Tips On Effective Networking

YoungUpstarts

I belong to 42 different Meetup groups that cater to a wide range of business and technology professionals on topics as diverse as analytics, data mining and the quantified self. On Thursday, I spent time at a Hacks/Hackers meetup that had 147 attendees from the media and business. minutes on 4/9/2014 and 4.2

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

About 2% of the participants have SEO and Google Analytics skills, about 3% have stated that they possess digital marketing skills. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. In 2014, the unemployment rate was just 2.7% Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

Earlier this month, I asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council about the top events for founders in 2014. We asked 20 women of YEC the following question: What is one must-attend conference or event you’re looking forward to in 2014, and why? eMetrics Summit is all about analytics and data. Empact Showcase 2014.

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2014 and the Future of Social Media, Through the Eyes of Buffer

Duct Tape Marketing

2014 and the Future of Social Media, Through the Eyes of Buffer written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Enjoy this guest post from Leo Widrich COO at Buffer. 2014 is going to be a huge year for social media. More emphasis on analytics and reporting.

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How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning

The Next Web

Fast forward to 2014. So, what SHOULD you do in 2014? By now you must have realized what’s WRONG, now is the fun part; here’s what’s going to work in 2014 and even after the next Google update. The beauty of backlinks in 2014 will be earning them in a lot more logic ways. Next: So, how can you remedy this?

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