Thu.Sep 15, 2016

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5 Effective Marketing Strategies For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Technological innovations have opened up new ways and places for businesses to market themselves. The challenge however has been in deciding which marketing strategy to adapt for startups as well as mid-sized companies due to their small budget. Digital advertising is just as expensive as the traditional print advertising method. Marketing through social media has proven to be quite time consuming.

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How to Write a Business Plan: Use This Checklist to Keep Yourself on Task

Up and Running

Most people think of the business plan as a one-time event, something used to accomplish a specific goal—getting funded, usually. This, however, is a very limited viewpoint. The business plan, in its many different formats, can be used for a variety of purposes, including validating an idea, getting funded, and managing a business successfully. How you format your plan will depend on what your needs are.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 41: Chris Schroeder and Andy Cunningham

Steve Blank

There are only two emotions in startups — utter ebullient enthusiasm and outright terror. Here’s the big thing about tech companies: They all believe that if they build it, the world will come, but it doesn’t really work that way. The reality distortion you create is imperative to be able to believe what you’re doing, and get the people around you to believe what you’re doing.

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Supplemental Income For Entrepreneurs: Get Started With Swing Trading

YoungUpstarts

By Jason Bond, entrepreneur and small cap stock expert at JasonBondPicks.com. There’s no easy path to becoming a successful entrepreneur. In fact, even the most accomplished business owner would admit to making hundreds of mistakes. Although no two entrepreneurial journeys are the same, one thing is true about most startups in their infancy: they don’t have a robust cash flow.

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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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 41: Chris Schroeder and Andy Cunningham

Steve Blank

There are only two emotions in startups — utter ebullient enthusiasm and outright terror. Here’s the big thing about tech companies: They all believe that if they build it, the world will come, but it doesn’t really work that way. The reality distortion you create is imperative to be able to believe what you’re doing, and get the people around you to believe what you’re doing.

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Use Social Media Properly & Start Growing Your Business Today!

YoungUpstarts

The best way to grow a small business is to use social media. However, I find that lots of people use social media in the wrong way. For me, it’s all about playing to the strengths of each social networking medium. This piece will help you use social media properly, and expand your company: Facebook. If anyone is new to social media marketing, people tell them to get on Facebook.

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Vetter, An Online Suggestion Box That Increases Company Productivity

YoungUpstarts

A company or an organization can be a complex creature with a variety of departments, lots of employees and numbers of departmental objectives. Therefore, ideas and innovation can be obstructed because of such separate departments vie for focus and attention. But being as a company owner you could undertake different types of simple strategies which will assist you to decrease these harmful effects generate ideas and thoughts and align the different objectives of department.

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Fresh from the SPRING: smarikaahuja

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this presentation project. Let us start the slow clap for smarikaahuja. Check out more great work on smarikaahuja’s profile page. Nicely done, smarikaahuja, nicely done!

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6 Surveillance Camera Systems For Commercial Use

YoungUpstarts

by Richard Henke, CEO of On Guard Systems, Inc. Whether you are responsible for a small shop, a home, place of worship, or hotel, the last thing you need is for something awful to happen to your building. To prevent and drive away crime from damaging your property, there are several commercial surveillance camera systems to pick from. While hired security guards, a close proximity to police, and guard dogs might work for some estates and businesses, camera surveillance is the most effective way

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My first post about Yoga Pants

David Cohen

This is my first post about yoga pants, but hopefully not my last! Believe it or not, dress pant yoga pants is a huge tech story. Better yet, a Techstars story! Betabrand is a online clothier that outfits Web communities, and, this month, they’re donating to the Techstars Foundation based on sales from their top product! That’s right, dress yoga pants!

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Why Invest In HR Software?

YoungUpstarts

No business has unlimited funds. As a result, company owners have to think carefully before investing in new equipment, software and training. They have to be sure that the money they are spending will be recouped. Some investment decisions are easy to make. The benefits are immediately obvious, and spending the money is easy to justify. Other times it is more difficult to work out whether the investment is worthwhile, or not.

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Startups Are Like Growing Plants From Seeds

YFS Magazine

I always think of starting a business in the same way I consider what it takes to grow a healthy plant.

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How to simplify your commission structure

Berkonomics

Is your commission structure so complex that even you must have help understanding it – and calculating a commission on a pending bid? Sales people are incentivized by money. They usually are able to calculate what’s in it for them before they make the final presentation and ask for the order. But what if the commission plan is so complex that even the people who should be most excited cannot understand or calculate the winning numbers?

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Improve Their Sales Skills

YFS Magazine

Every entrepreneur would agree that if you cannot sell, you won't be in the game for long.

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My Latest Book – SEO for Growth

Duct Tape Marketing

My Latest Book – SEO for Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Today I am thrilled to announce the release of my fifth book! Yep, kind of stealthy with this one, but I believe it’s an extremely important and timely topic. The title of the book is SEO for Growth – The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers, and Entrepreneurs.

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Fresh from the SPRING: smarikaahuja

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this presentation project. Let us start the slow clap for smarikaahuja. Check out more great work on smarikaahuja’s profile page. Nicely done, smarikaahuja, nicely done!

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6 Case Studies That Show How and Why to Focus on Building Consumer Trust

Duct Tape Marketing

6 Case Studies That Show How and Why to Focus on Building Consumer Trust written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Unsplash. If you’re tired of trying to crank out endless marketing initiatives and manage the high costs of advertising in hopes of generating returns, you’re not alone. Marketers everywhere are struggling to keep up engagement with their audience.

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Fresh from the SPRING: smarikaahuja

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this presentation project. Let us start the slow clap for smarikaahuja. Check out more great work on smarikaahuja’s profile page. Nicely done, smarikaahuja, nicely done!

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Facebook Ads vs. AdWords: How to Decide and Start Optimizing for ROI

ConversionXL

With Google processing over 40,000 searches every second and Facebook being a hub for 1.13 billion daily active users , Google AdWords and Facebook ads are obvious choices for PPC campaigns. But is one better than the other? Are the optimization processes for both similar? What about A/B testing? These are the questions optimizers need answers to before they can really reap the benefits of two very powerful advertising platforms.

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The Forrest Four-Cast: September 15, 2016

Austin Startup

Ash Carter in Austin and Edward Snowden in Moscow Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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