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5 Ways To Make Sure Your Online Store Is Holiday-Ready In 2014

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If you own a retail store, now is the time to evaluate the 2013 holiday season and start thinking about how you can prepare your business in the months ahead for an even more successful holiday 2014. Here’s a quick guide to making sure your store is holiday-ready in 2014. Freshen up your website.

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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

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Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2014: 1. Other 2014 design trends include blurred backgrounds, simple animations, more scrolling, and bigger fonts. For even more about 2014 design trends, I recommend you read 18 pivotal web design trends for 2014. Your website reflects your brand.

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Five Ways to Prepare for the 2014 E-Commerce Season

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The peak selling season can be a stressful time for online merchants who are scrambling to get products to customers as quickly as possible. Is the layout intuitive, and do you provide images of all your products to entice potential buyers? Now is a good time to take a critical look, evaluating your online store against competitors.

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

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2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. Continuing into 2014, there will likely be a shift in the role of the investor into a more hands-on player in businesses. Clutter includes: toxic people, time drainers, unnecessary events, and non-crucial product features. Clear the clutter.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

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2014 is almost here. Here are my 10 rules for #winning in 2014. This is nothing compared to 2014 and beyond. Please stop being stupid in 2014. Call your actual customers and learn how your product fits in their lives. It’s about an iterative process for building new companies, products, services.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

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ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. This year’s hottest startups were all about boosting our productivity and well-being. One thing common to 2014’s most intriguing upstarts is how they didn’t just serve themselves: They empowered others to innovate, too.

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Seven Ways To Make Sure Accountability Sticks In 2014

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That’s why you should kick off your 2014 accountability revolution with a meeting of the minds. Use this meeting to get consensus on what the core values and behaviors need to be to support the company’s strategies and goals for 2014, and emphasize that everyone, starting with the key leaders, will be held accountable for demonstrating them.