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Two Business Tools That Boost Your Marketing Efforts 

YoungUpstarts

To do lists, Scrum tools, power bi and many more tools , which can optimize processes and ultimately create the most productive and efficient company that will generate growth for your company. Data can be used to create the proper messages, create the right content for your audience and much more. Business Intelligence tools (aka.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

AdBlock gets rid of everything—Google ads, banner ads on websites, YouTube video ads, you name it. As you may suspect, this is one audience you can rely on to produce good content or great lists. Online, it’s pretty easy to get distracted and advertisements on-page make that even more likely.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

It’s difficult to target personas when you may have hundreds of sub-audiences. Instead, looking at the jobs your audiences are trying to do—and in what context—is more fruitful. Simply describe interactions your target audience has with your product. This would indicate that users want to see English subtitles for videos.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec? Expo SF (May. Try About the author.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

Have you checked out this blog post, this video, and this infographic? The traditional buyer’s funnel relies on linear decision-making, assuming that an audience will move neatly to become a prospect, then customer. To build a playground such that your audience experiences a seamless journey, no matter which path they take?

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. Enforcing these values needed to be done over video calls because words just didn’t cut it. This is best done over video calls so that tone and (com)passion are clear.