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Benefits of Outsourcing Marketing Activities

Duct Tape Marketing

Benefits of Outsourcing Marketing Activities written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Flickr. In the beginning, startup companies are always trying to fix everything by themselves. Their marketing strategies are usually made by self-thought marketing experts, who also work in some other company sectors.

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The Reasons Why An Exhibition Can Be Useful To An Upstart Company

YoungUpstarts

If you’re starting a new business, one of the ways that you can promote yourself to a large number of potential customers, as well as other businesses, vendors, etc., is by attending an exhibition. While the costs of getting a booth can be a bit high, continue reading for a few of the reasons why this could be a highly worthwhile and useful investment for your upstart company: Find Your Target Audience More Easily.

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3 Things To Know About A Content Marketing Audit

Brandanew

What is content marketing ? You write something useful in your blog, rank high in google search and expect people to read it and become your fans and the gradually morph into your customers. Is that not enough? What is so complicated in it? Why do we need a content marketing audit? Image credit: Flickr. Well, things are not as simple as some of you might think.

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Dos And Don’ts Of Business Car Leasing

YoungUpstarts

Whether you run a business or are just a working professional, having a smart vehicle will be something that’s not only aspired to but eventually becomes necessary. It gives off a great first impression, shows an air of successfulness and is more likely to tempt new investors and clients towards your company. For new businesses and workers it can be hard to afford just one car, let alone a fleet.

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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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Need Funding? 2015 Is A Strong Year For Startups

Gust

2015 is shaping up to be a strong year for the startup and early stage investor ecosystem. Total startup funding applications are up across the globe and in multiple sectors, especially in the United States where the surging New York City tech industry is leading a nationwide growth in new startups. Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total number Read more >.

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What Factors Helped VistaJet Succeed?

YoungUpstarts

Owning a private jet is something many of us aspire to at one point or another in our lives. It is understandably a huge expense, from the initial purchase to running and ownership costs with little if no prospect of making a profit, as many aircraft suffer from depreciation the same way as cars. Only the super-rich really buy their own personal jets.

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Becoming A Taxi Driver? Get Covered Properly.

YoungUpstarts

As a taxi driver you will be covering a lot more mileage than the average commuter, driving for longer periods and at more unsociable hours. This leads to a higher chance of being involved in an accident so it’s essential you’re fully covered, whether working individually or for a firm. Studies have shown that more experienced drivers and those who use their own vehicles are less likely to be involved in accidents.

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8 Tips for Entrepreneurs Who Are Balancing Their Business with Their Day Job

Up and Running

If you’re keeping your day job while you start a business, it can be hard to find balance. So, you’re ready to start your business, but not quite ready to give up your day job. Maybe you’re planning to use your income from your day job to help fund your new business, or are simply relying on that income to sustain your living expenses until your business can generate a profit.

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Our 2016 Foundry Group Fund and A Little History

Feld Thoughts

Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013. Our 2013 fund was originally raised in 2012, but we didn’t start investing it until 2013 so we renamed it 2013.

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How to Win a BtoB Content Project – Or Any Job For that Matter!

Rembrandt Communications

Are you following these steps to advance your career and make more money? Recently, I was looking for BtoB content writers and requested applications. It’s amazing what people sent to me… the good, the bad, and the (very) ugly. Let’s just say that the applicants who followed directions accordingly were placed in the “possible” pile. […]. The post How to Win a BtoB Content Project – Or Any Job For that Matter!

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The Most Overlooked Way To Grow Your Business With Purpose

YFS Magazine

When you take these steps you’ll receive surprising benefits and be inspired to grow your company.

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Need Funding? 2015 Is A Strong Year For Startups

Gust

2015 is shaping up to be a strong year for the startup and early stage investor ecosystem. Total startup funding applications are up across the globe and in multiple sectors, especially in the United States where the surging New York City tech industry is leading a nationwide growth in new startups. Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total number Read more >.

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10 Ways To Stay Motivated While Running A Startup

YFS Magazine

If you can master these 10 techniques, you’ll feel more in control of business growth.

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Breaking Rules

Mike Michalowicz

As I write this, I just finished hosting the 2015 Rule Breaker Awards. Amazing entrepreneur after amazing entrepreneur was recognized for breaking the rules. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. All our lives we have been told to follow the rules. Color in within the lines, or you will have to do it again and again until you get it right. Follow the instructions or you will fail.

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I sat in my own safety net while weaving it.

Berkonomics

Editor’s note: Berni Jubb was an Inc.500 entrepreneur, after years as a senior marketing manager of a large computer company. He regained his senses, and now runs a small resort and restaurant in Costa Rica. By Berni Jubb. My First Startup…. …never started, nor did my fifth or sixth. My desire to run something stirred inside me early in life, but the first real entrepreneurial adventure finally took hold after a lot of failed experiments.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. “No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers.

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Crowdfunding: Ways to Boost Your Campaign Success

Early Growth Financial Services

With crowdfunding blowing up, in a good way, more and more entrepreneurs are considering jumping on the bandwagon. But before you upload your product video and hit the launch button on your campaign, there are some things you need to know. Traklight CEO Mary Juetten shared her insights during our Safe Crowdfunding: Tips For Your Campaign webinar. Preparing for your crowdfunding campaign The first thing you need to do is to get all your ducks in a row.

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Geo-Targeting Can Skyrocket Your Conversion Rates!

Duct Tape Marketing

Geo-Targeting Can Skyrocket Your Conversion Rates! written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: In the Palm of My Hand via photopin (license). As the internet continues to grow at an exponential rate, the average web user is overloaded with a vast amount of information. Website owners only have a few seconds to convince someone that the content on their website is worthwhile reading before the visitor moves on.

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5 Things All Entrepreneurs Can Learn About Success from Donald Trump

YoungUpstarts

By Steve Siebold, author of “ How Rich People Think “. Love him or hate him, one thing’s for sure: all entrepreneurs can all learn a few things about success and leadership from Donald Trump. While The Donald continues to make headlines for his aggressive campaign to clinch the GOP nomination in the race to the White House, politics aside, it’s easy to see why Trump is a natural born leader and huge business success.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

We live in strange times, and sometimes it seems that the world is spinning backwards. Donald Trump is a leading presidential contender and the North Pole saw December temperatures rise above freezing without any sunlight. As every year comes to an end, I marvel at all of the unexpected twists and turns of the year. One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with brilliant people around the world –while speaking, emailing or via my blog.

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