Thu.Sep 11, 2014

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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Digital User Experience

YoungUpstarts

'By Thelton McMillian, Founder & CEO of Comrade. To successfully compete in today’s digital world, companies must design user experiences that resonate with customers and keep engaged. Effective marketing depends on a seamless user experience. However, in the race to design smart capabilities, many businesses commit one or more “deadly sins” that can compromise the growth and viability of their business.

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

'Sometimes your business needs money fast. The question is, how do you get it when the traditional methods don’t work for you? Let’s be honest, when it comes to funding, it’s never as straightforward as business advisors, lenders, backers, and investors might have you think. And, if you’re a small business, it’s unlikely you can afford to pay someone to do all the legal research and nit-picky stuff that the big boys can.

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4 Emerging Concepts & Trends In Social Media Marketing

YoungUpstarts

'by Robert Danard, CEO of Spriza. When Beyoncé released her self-titled album late last year, she didn’t go through any of the traditional promotional means, which she called boring. Instead, she simply posted a video featuring the new album cover and pictures of her with the caption “Surprise!” on Instagram. That was enough for Beyoncé, one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

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Culture is everything: How I reclaimed an employee back from Apple

The Next Web

'Jerry Jao is the founder and CEO of Retention Science. The widely accepted “dream job” of many engineers is to work for a Silicon Valley tech giant such as Google, Facebook or Twitter. So I wasn’t surprised when, last summer, our intern Vedant told us that he had received a full time job offer from Apple. I knew that, like many aspiring engineers, it was his “dream job,” but at the same time, I believed that my company, Retention Science, could provide him with a different (but no less valuable

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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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The importance of reading

The Equity Kicker

'I’ve just come from a presentation Seedcamp from Richard Reed, one of the founders of Innocent Drinks. For those that don’t know Innocent is a 15 year old startup that makes smoothies and veggie pots. They are now 90% owned by Coca Cola and the company has been valued at ‘over $0.5bn’ Richard gave us his ten top tips for being a successful entrepreneur.

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I Went on Vacation and Increased Our Facebook Traffic by 300%. Here’s How…

Up and Running

'I’m not going to be shy with my opinion on this topic: you need to take more time off of work. I took a week off in August and was able to increase our Facebook referral traffic by over 300%—all while being completely unplugged from work. I want to show you how, but first, let’s take a look at how Americans don’t take enough vacations. 55% of Americans admit to taking less than half of their eligible paid time off each year.

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Business Applications for Facebook On The Rise

Mike Michalowicz

'You know all about how companies have been using mobile applications to help boost their bottom line. Now, get ready for Facebook applications to be the next big thing! Development of Facebook applications is on an uptick and you will want to get in on it from the start. If you have been avoiding getting involved in Facebook, now is the time to set your differences aside and write an app (or three)!

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The 2×4

OnlyOnce

'The 2×4. I took a Freshman Seminar in my first semester at Princeton in 1988 with a world-renowned professor of classical literature, Bob Hollander. My good friend and next-door neighbor Peggy was in the seminar with me. It was a small group — maybe a dozen of us — meeting for three hours each week for a roundtable with Professor Hollander, and then writing the occasional paper.

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Intel® kicks of Fall IoT Roadshow in Austin Sept. 20

Austin Startup

'This week Intel® is unveiling new software and hardware at the Intel® Developer Forum in San Francisco. Part of these updates includes new features to their Galileo Gen 2 Development Board. Austin is lucky enough to be the first city to experience these updated Dev Kits first hand. Intel® is kicking off their IoT Roadshow in Austin Sept. 20 and will be handing out free Galileo boards to the first 100 attendees who have registered for the event.

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Why Keyword Themes +Modified Broad Match = Winning PPC Strategy

ConversionXL

'Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. So let’s talk about how to do that for real, shall we. By combining Ad Group theming and Modified Broad keywords, you can create targeting that rewards you with qualified traffic right away, and a structure that rewards you again and again by delivering even stronger target keyword sets.

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How Networking Can Increase Your Sales and Help Your SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

'How Networking Can Increase Your Sales and Help Your SEO written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Samantha Pena – Enjoy! . photo credit: Thinkstock. You know the saying, “It’s not what you know but who you know”?

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Presale Resistance Syndrome (PRS)

Andrew Payne

'I’ve written previously about presales (e.g. Kickstarter or Indigogo) as a tool for hardware startups The model enables risky & crazy ideas that would normally never see the light of day. Most will fail, but some will get through and be hugely disruptive. For example, Pebble’s record setting Kickstarter campaign accelerated their business and more fundamentally, defined the entire smart watch category.

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4 Steps to Get You Through a Small Business Audit

Early Growth Financial Services

'Though the odds of your business getting audited are low, with the IRS increasing its focus on finding small businesses that are underreporting income, it pays to think about how you would handle it if your business were to receive an audit notice. Hopefully you’ve avoided the two things that many startups are guilty of: not properly tracking expenses and mixing business and personal accounts.

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Twitter Link Roundup #234 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'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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12 Questions: Meet Tal More (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

'In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.