Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2014

'How to Leverage Phone Conversations with Customers written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Jeanne Landau – Enjoy! photo credit: mycallfinder.com. It is estimated that U.S. businesses experience an annual loss of $83 billion simply because they provided bad customer service (or really, they didn’t provide ‘customer service’ at all).

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deal architect

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Cloud revenues are just 4% of total 2013 revenues. Three of its senior cloud executives from SuccessFactors and Ariba acquisitions have moved on in the last year. Its own internally developed BYD shows little traction after years of investment. Yet.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2014

'by Matt Everard, managing director of Barrington Freight. The growth of developing nation’s economies – India is a fine example – has led to a surge in the amount of outsourcing contracts from developed nations. In 2013 there were 2,637,239 jobs outsourced offshore from the US alone, according to Sourcing Line Computer Economics. Outsourcing is not just a cost reduction tactic; it can also enable your business to access specialized services.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2014

'I changed my sleep pattern in October. Three months later, I feel like a completely different person. A much better one. Since I was in my early 20′s, I’ve been getting up at 5am from Monday to Friday. I generally would go to sleep between 10 and 11. An alarm clock would wake me up. By Thursday or Friday I would often snooze or even reset it for 6am or 7am.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2014

'by Bill McBean, author of “ The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t “ So the Christmas selling season is over, post-Christmas sales have ended, and New Year’s resolutions are just kicking in. In other words, 2014 has just begun. January may not be the busiest month for entrepreneurs, or would-be entrepreneurs, but it’s the month that the “Should I?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Just because an employee has been around for awhile doesn’t mean they’re delivering the same results as before, or that they’re a match for where your company’s headed as it grows. Sometimes, it’s best to just cut ties—for them and for you. We asked eleven entrepreneurs for one surefire sign that it’s time to get rid of a key player on their team.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 10, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon HIlls News Today, it’s possible to start a company with very little money. Bootstrapping is the new normal for many high tech startups in the Austin and San Antonio area. But a startup gets to a point where the entrepreneur needs some cash to advance their idea, buy goods […] The post SAPitch.com Connects Investors with Startups in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 10, 2014

'No matter who you are, or where you’re from, you know someone whose New Year’s resolution is to get in shape and stop eating so many sweets. Their big goal in 2014 is to learn how to curtail their sweet tooth’s cravings and replace those sugary treats with healthier options—foods that sustain energy in a stable, healthy way, as opposed to a fast spike of energy, followed by an even faster crash and burn.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 10, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News It’s less than a month to go until the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi kicks off. But if you can’t wait that long and you can’t travel to Russia, there’s a solution much closer in Austin. It’s the Austin Startup 2014 Winter Games! The event begins […] The post Austin Startup Games to Showcase Entrepreneurial Athletes appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 10, 2014

'You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. ~ Zig Ziglar. The world would be a much better place if more people lived by this philosophy. So much can be gained by helping other people. I’ve seen it on both sides and there’s almost nothing more powerful than helping others get what they want.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2014

'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. At Buffer, this is really exciting for us because we’re going through a period of change and refocusing.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Originally published in PRWeb. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) January 10, 2014 Outsourced financial services firm expands tax offerings to provide small to mid-sized companies with a more integrated approach to financial management. Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), a national outsourced accounting and finance support firm, has announced the expansion of their tax services, for both businesses and individuals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 99

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2014

'You may have heard the saying “Hire slowly. Fire quickly.” It is sage advice guiding us to take the necessary time to hire the right people the first go around, and removing unfit employees quickly. But entrepreneurs get confused around one facet of “hire slowly.” They conclude that you should only hire someone new when your current employee can’t handle a single ounce of additional work.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 10, 2014

'“ How do I come up with a unique value proposition? What I sell isn’t unique. ” If you’re working on improving your business, you know there’s no shortage about why you need a unique value proposition. You’ve probably even seen a handful of solid examples, but when you go to write your own, you hit a wall. You’ve got too many competitors, they’re selling the same stuff, and it looks like all the good value propositions are taken.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Last month I posted a very simple Markov Chain generator that takes one paragraph of text and produces gibberish. The one issue is that it doesn’t scale, for two reasons: 1) It reads all the text into memory at once. That’s fine if you’re processing a few paragraphs, but for large amounts of text it’s better to process one line at a time. 2) The word lists contain repeated words.

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