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How User Generated Reviews Affect Conversion Rates

ConversionXL

Almost all business owners hate Yelp, but they understand its power. User generated reviews in general are tremendously influential in persuading people to buy. One study found that 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 72% of consumers say positive reviews make them trust businesses more. Millennials, in particular, trust user-generated content 50% more than other media.

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How Clutter Affects Your Productivity, And What You Can Do About It

crowdSPRING Blog

I read many blogs to get inspired, learn, and to see what other people are doing. I’ve noticed that over the past few years, more people have been writing about productivity. This makes sense because as entrepreneurs and business owners, we are always looking for ways in which we can improve our productivity – or get more done in a shorter amount of time.

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Top 5 Business Benefits Of SaaS Products

YFS Magazine

Software as a Service (SaaS) provides an alternative for the.

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4 Startup Lessons I Learned From ‘SimCity’

YoungUpstarts

by Zach Ferres, the CEO of Coplex. Dad always limited my time on video games to two hours a day. Little did he know, all that SimCity would end up being more important than my math homework. My accounting class in college was so focused on memorizing financial ratios that the actual meaning of them was lost. I don’t remember much of college accounting — but I vividly remember this report I used to get from SimCity as a little dude.

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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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Find Your Sweet Spot To Excel As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Finding your sweet spot as an entrepreneur needs to start with a meaningful personal purpose that is also a business opportunity. Some people are so passionate about a cause that they forget to consider the lack of business potential, while others are so enamored with profit that they jeopardize their ethics. Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success.

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Book: Startup Rising

Feld Thoughts

On my vacation a few weeks ago, I read Chris Schroeder ‘s book Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. It was outstanding. I had dinner with Chris recently in Boulder. We were introduced by our joint friend Ben Casnocha. Chris made the effort to come visit me in Boulder, which I always appreciate as it’s a way for me to be completely in the moment for an extended period of time when meeting someone new.

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Major demographic shift – more people are living with their parent

The Equity Kicker

When I was studying social science in the 1990s one of the major trends was more and more people living alone. Academics were extrapolating trends and predicting 30%+ of us would be living alone in the future. They were picturing millions of unhappy people living in tiny apartments with insufficient social contact going quietly mad. Fortunately that hasn’t happened.

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3 Tips On Building Your Startup From The Ground Up

YFS Magazine

The “secret sauce” of many growing a startup can seem like an elusive and abstract concept for many entrepreneurs.

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In Business, Making Real Choices and Avoiding False Ones

Growthink Blog

Effective executives avoid false choices, decisions where only limited, and variously unattractive, alternatives are considered. Instead, when confronted with a false choice, the best executives reframe decisions into empowering, real choices like in the examples below: False Choice Example #1 : Data - based versus “Gut” - based decision making. New school “Moneyball” executives say opinions and experience just don’t matter - that there is always more truth and wisdom in the numbers than in exec

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The Prop 1 Aftermath, Continued: Nonprofit RideAustin Jumps Into the Fray

Austin Startup

Over the past two years I’ve become intertwined in the nascent TNC business (a.k.a. “ridesharing” and “ride-hailing”) for a variety of… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How important is the physical location of your business?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How important is the physical location of your business? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Day 18 Without Uber + Lyft in Austin, What’s Next?

Austin Startup

It has been 18 days since Prop 1 failed to pass and Uber and Lyft left Austin. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How to Build Your Business on Content

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build Your Business on Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Joe Pulizzi. Content is no longer a nice form of marketing, it’s the air that guides the customer journey, or, in some cases, it’s a business model. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Joe Pulizzi, founder and CEO of the Content Marketing Institute and the author of the new book Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build M

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Microsoft Acknowledges the Obvious with Their Smartphone Business

Venture Chronicles

Kaput. That’s the best word to describe what is left of Microsoft’s smartphone business in light of today’s announcement that they are pulling back and reducing the workforce in this business area. This comes on the back of an announcement last week that they were selling off their feature phone business. Microsoft has a long history in mobile, going back to 2004 but it was the release of Windows Mobile in 2008 that demonstrated the strategic intention.

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Proven Strategies to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Revenue

Up and Running

For nonprofit business owners, finding money—and finding it on a regular basis—is a constant worry. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, of the nonprofits that started in 2005, only 43 percent of these firms still existed in 2010. Common reasons cited for failure include lack of capital, a misunderstanding of the market, and a faulty model of how to attract and maintain that market.

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Episode 91: Next Level Profitability with David Lauterstein

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we interview David Lauterstein and put him in the hot seat to discuss what’s going on with his business. David runs a $3.2mil retail outlet called Nasty Pig – but that doesn’t mean he’s been profitable! David has implemented Profit First and experienced a turn in his business; we coach him through a couple tips on how to take his business to the next level.