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How To Succeed As A Product Manager

YoungUpstarts

by Beata Green, Director of HeadChannel. New technologies emerge daily and bring ingenious products to the world. It’s generally accepted to praise developers and designers for bringing these products to life but there is usually someone else behind the concepts and ideas. And this is the product manager who dictates the strategies and processes, controls the product’s lifecycle and ensures that it meets all the set demands.

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4 Brilliant Ways To Improve Your Online Marketing With Visuals

YFS Magazine

Make visuals an integral part of your marketing plan and see your sales increase.

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Top 5 Time Management Hacks To Get You Ahead

YoungUpstarts

by Aymeric Gaurat-Apellii, founder of Weekplan. Peter Drucker quoted, “Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” If time is not used effectively, it can spoil the whole game. Most of us complain that we don’t get time to do something we would love to do. But the fact is you’ll never get enough time, you will have to produce it.

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How One Popcorn Purveyor Found Sweet Success

Up and Running

Mill Street Treats’ caramel corn. (Image via the Mill Street Treats Facebook page. ). Sometimes, the path to small business success is surprisingly sweet. At least, it was for John Seeley, founder of Mill Street Treats. A family-owned and operated shop on historic Route 6 in Troy, Pennsylvania, Mill Street Treats sells a variety of flavored popcorns, roasted peanuts, ice cream, and more.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Does Your App Struggle To Meet Customer Satisfaction?

YoungUpstarts

Does your business have an app? How successful do you think your app is? More than $10 billion is spent on developing mobile apps each year, however less than 10% of mobile apps are classified as successful. The definition of success varies from revenue to engagement, depending on the objective of the app, but all mobile app developers agree that to maximise the chances of an app being successful, the user experience should be smooth and the app should deliver value to the end user.

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How Do You Hold Yourself Accountable If You’re the CEO?

Up and Running

As a small business founder and the CEO of SLC Bookkeeping, I try to spend the majority of my time on mission critical activities. I spend a lot of time developing strategies and advising team members on how to best implement them. I also manage, coach, encourage, and review employees. But, the one major challenge I face as a CEO is this: Where do I turn for help?

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This Too Shall Pass

Mike Michalowicz

On a recent trip to the breathtaking island of Lanai, Hawaii, I witnessed an important lesson; It is human nature to believe that whatever is currently happening will likely happen permanently. But in reality, it won’t. I was visiting the Lanai City Museum to read-up on the history of the island. A twenty-year-old video looped in the background. It shared a fascinating tale of the rise and fall of industry on Lanai.

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5 Ways to Tackle the Tricky Business of Measuring Branding and Marketing ROI

crowdSPRING Blog

One of the major benefits of the digital age is that marketers now have far more meaningful metrics by which to evaluate the success of their initiatives. It’s no longer just about creative swagger and assumptions regarding your audience. We have an avalanche of data on consumer preferences and behavior, website usage, content engagement, and more at our disposal.

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Tips for Success via Business Crowdfunding

Hearpreneur

Share Crowdfunding is the latest avenue for people looking to fund their projects. Business owners and entrepreneurs are flocking to a variety of platforms to help give their businesses a needed financial injection from the public. Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product.

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CognitiveScale Lands $21.8 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

Austin-based CognitiveScale announced Tuesday it has landed $21.8 million in venture capital. Norwest Venture Partners and Intel Capital co-led the round. CognitiveScale plans to use the money to expand its salesforce and on research and development of its product portfolio. As part of the deal, Norwest’s Promod Haque and Intel Capital’s Vibhor Rastogi will join […] The post CognitiveScale Lands $21.8 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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7 Sure-Fire Tips To Promote Your Brand On Social Media ?

YFS Magazine

Even the best content will often go unread because it hasn’t been found.

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Put on your running clothes

Jeff Hilimire

I did it again. Honestly, I had every intention of running this morning. I drank a lot of water yesterday (its hot in Atlanta, even at 6am.) I set the alarm, checked the weather, and made sure my calendar didn’t have any early morning meetings. Everything was lined up. I even woke up a few minutes before my alarm. I went downstairs and had a glass of water.

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Entrepreneurs Teach for Growth

Duct Tape Marketing

Entrepreneurs Teach for Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We all teach something – like it or not, know it or not – but how conscious are we of the act. Professional teachers have had a profound impact on my life – Perhaps more than my parents in some very important ways. I’m reminded of my 7th-grade history teacher and basketball coach who felt it important that he also teach us boys about respecting the women who came in and out of our lives.

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How do I set wage levels?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How do I set wage levels? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Why Your CEO Should Give You An Election Day Vacation

Hunter Walker

I woke on Election Day 2012 with control of Barack Obama’s Twitter account. And Rihanna’s. And Ashley Judd, Eva Longoria, Donna Brazile plus several hundred other celebrities and Democratic Party influencers (not to mention hundreds of thousands of everyday citizens). Along with some friends, I’d built an app called Picswitch that made it easy to overlay graphics atop your Twitter and Facebook profile pics.

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Battle Royale: Evaluating the Marketing and Branding Efforts of Clinton and Trump

crowdSPRING Blog

If you’re a fan of the musical Hamilton, you know elections weren’t always this polarizing. It wasn’t until 1800, when young upstart Aaron Burr chose to break with tradition and openly campaign against favored Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, that the idea of directly attacking an opponent and speaking on your own qualifications became a thing.

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Why Your CEO Should Give You An Election Day Vacation

Hunter Walker

I woke on Election Day 2012 with control of Barack Obama’s Twitter account. And Rihanna’s. And Ashley Judd, Eva Longoria, Donna Brazile plus several hundred other celebrities and Democratic Party influencers (not to mention hundreds of thousands of everyday citizens). Along with some friends, I’d built an app called Picswitch that made it easy to overlay graphics atop your Twitter and Facebook profile pics.

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