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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. - But the problem that many inexperienced startup CEO’s make is confusing these people for the people who lead the technology team. Most often they are not.

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Public Relations Tips for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” They mix it up with advertising.

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What the Founder of Cheek’d Can Teach You About Startup Marketing

Up and Running

” The inspiration for the business came to her two years previously, when out to dinner with a colleague from the architectural company she worked for at the time. The growth of her startup is all due to her own efforts: “I wasn’t able to afford a PR firm. On the card he’d scribbled “want to have dinner?

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Starting A Career In The Renewable Energy Sector

YoungUpstarts

Renewable energy and architecture. Finding your route into renewables will depend on your qualifications, experience and interests but there are opportunities for graduates from a wide range of fields including PR, management and marketing. Options include: Renewable Energy . Solar energy. Renewable energy and agriculture.

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Twitter Link Roundup #62 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Decision Architecture: Helping Users Make Better Decisions – [link]. Managing Graphics and Icons in your Designs – [link]. 40 Awesome Car Website Designs – [link]. Designing for Content Management Systems – [link]. Mega-Menus Gone Wrong (Usability study) – [link]. Designing for Noise – [link].

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Old People

Ben's Blog

For example, I’ve seen many a young CEOs excited about her company’s competency in marketing and PR because she got a bunch of positive stories on her launch. That’s not a high PR standard. Only world-class PR people can deal with gangly, pimple ridden, teenage companies. World-class PR people can turn around negative stories.

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