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How To Hire And Train A New Employee During The Summer (When Most People Are On Vacation)

YoungUpstarts

Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. On top of the normal difficulties of the hiring process, HR also has to deal with its high seasonality.

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Small Business Growth Webinar Series — 6 Expert-Led Ways to Grow

Up and Running

LivePlan has teamed up with crowdspring for an interactive webinar series on how to grow your small business. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill webinars. If you’re not able to attend live, all sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants along with key takeaways from each conversation.

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

Up and Running

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.” With the time that we’re going to devote to this webinar today, it’s going to have a lot of objectives in it.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Ellie Mirman: When I came in, Mike [Volpe, HubSpot’s CMO] had a to-do list of the things he wanted us to do, the top one being to start a webinar series. How did you address that?

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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Word-of-mouth and social media may get you started, but there is no substitute these days for special promotions, webinars, presence at trade shows, and actively calling on decision makers. Increase the pipeline and the conversion rate. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Up and Running

I really admire the simplicity of this, because what’s behind it allows for a robust conversation about people, and their impact on an organization. So please join us— and read along —as we build up to hosting a free webinar with Adam on April 23 at 10 AM PDT. Why Attend the Live Webinar With Adam Bryant? So Why Wait?