Fri.Nov 20, 2015

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Successfully Get Your New Business Off the Ground With This Free New Tool From Intuit QuickBooks

YoungUpstarts

Let’s face it, navigating your 20s and 30s is no easy feat, but doing that while looking to start a business is even more difficult. From initial funding processes to increasing your online presence, to tackling accounting and more, there’s a lot that goes into getting your business off the ground. Even with all this, it doesn’t have to keep you up at night.

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7 Activities That Don’t Scale but Will Win You Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Activities That Don’t Scale but Will Win You Customers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Photo Credit: www.launchsolid.com. Starting a business is hard work and early on you will need to hustle to find your first customers. There is no need to stress right away about what marketing channels will scale because you won’t know which options work best.

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[ADV] How Can Translation Services Help Business?

YoungUpstarts

Today, the world is smaller than it ever was before. The developments in technology now allow us to communicate with other people based anywhere across the globe within seconds. Similarly to our personal lives, globalisation can also have a positive effect on businesses. The idea of international expansion becomes more and more popular within the UK SMEs.

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The unbearable lightness of enterprise software launches

deal architect

A reader of SAP Nation 2.0 commented it read like a “slow-motion train wreck”. It starts with the incredible excitement and expectations when S/4HANA was launched in February : “This is the biggest product launch in the last 23 years.

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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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How Community Involvement Can Help Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by David Adams, founder of HomeSuite. When we think of giving back to the community, we often think of dramatic relief efforts like those that supported the victims of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. After the floods devastated New Orleans, companies like Wal-Mart and Pfizer pledged millions in money and services to aid victims. Individuals like Sandra Bullock and Jay-Z also contributed large amounts.

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How to Write Copy People Will Actually Read

ConversionXL

You’ve found your way to this article, but you probably won’t read it start to finish. You’ve read the stats. According to Copyblogger, 80% of people will read a headline , but only 20% read the body. 38% of people who click on a site will leave before engaging with the content at all. People will share copy, effectively vouching for its quality, when they’ve only read 25% of it.

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How To Deal With A Chronically Unhappy Customer

YFS Magazine

Once the perpetually aggrieved customer has latched on to you and begun their demands, it’s time to step away and get back to the business of serving those who appreciate and value your contributions.

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On the Square and Match IPOs and hopes for a correction

The Equity Kicker

Match.com and Square both enjoyed strong first days after their IPOs yesterday. Match closed up 23% at a valuation of $3.5bn and Square was up 45% at a valuation of $4.2bn. That’s good news for both companies, because first day declines can sour a stock for months to come. However in the run up to its IPO Square had indicated it would go out at between $11 and $13 per share, and then ended up at $9, and in October last year Square raised $150m at a $6bn valuation.

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Paying Lip Service to Developing Entrepreneurs

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

There is a very frightening trend happening in the USA. We are not growing entrepreneurs. What is it we believe in our capitalist country? Isn’t it something like this: Anybody who works very hard, has a bit of talent and a good idea, can start something, grow it, and do well. . Isn’t that the essence of the entrepreneurial American dream?

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For Entrepreneurs, Bigger May Not Be Better

YFS Magazine

This is your business, and it’s up to you how you run it. You have the power to decide how big is big enough for you and if it’s truly helping you live the life you imagined.

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From Music Industry to Tech Company

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Mitch Ballard – DevDigital TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post From Music Industry to Tech Company appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Lifehacking fitness

Jeff Hilimire

I struggle with finding the time, and sometimes the motivation, to exercise as much as I should. I’m sure I’m the only one with this problem :). Now that I’m getting up at 4:50am every morning (been doing that for the last two weeks, I love it), having enough time isn’t the issue, but the motivation to exercise that early is.

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Alexa Fischer: TV Star On NCIS, Jag, Bones And Numbers, Switches To Online Communications Coach, Blogging, Podcasting And Teaching Her Way To A $250,000 Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Alexa Fischer grew up with a keen interest in acting, which she pursued through her studies as a young adult. This path led her to a career in California, appearing in commercials and shows including Numbers, CSI: The post Alexa Fischer: TV Star On NCIS, Jag, Bones And Numbers, Switches To Online Communications Coach, Blogging, Podcasting And Teaching Her Way To A $250,000 Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-J

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Honest Dollar Partners with Lyft to Provide Retirement Savings Plans

SiliconHills

Austin-based Honest Dollar has partnered with Lyft to provide its contract employees with a retirement savings plan. Honest Dollar’s savings plan is designed to be a flexible way for contract workers to save for retirement with Lyft’s 100,000 drivers getting access to the benefit first. But Honest Dollar plans to roll out the savings plan […] The post Honest Dollar Partners with Lyft to Provide Retirement Savings Plans appeared first on SiliconHills.

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#FollowFriday: 7 Awesome Instagram Accounts To Follow For Marketers

Brandanew

It’s a Friday and almost close to the end of a big week, as usual. To give your marketing lives an extra bit of inspiration and kick, we have some really interesting ideas to share. Here are awesome Instagram accounts to follow for Startup marketers and small businesses alike. I promise, you will be so excited to create visual brand magic for your own consumers!

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Don’t Call Profit The Bottom Line

Mike Michalowicz

Let’s say for a second that you have decided to exercise more. There’s more than a tire around your waist, after all, you have tires everywhere. To fix your fitness, you plan to hit the gym. You have two options: 1. The second you wake up, put on your gym clothes and head to the gym. 2. At the end of the day, right before you go to sleep, head over to the gym.

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8 Signs That Your Startup Success May Be In Jeopardy

Startup Professionals Musings

How many entrepreneurs do you know that “almost” made it big? Startups are very risky, and most fail. Yet entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing trends in business today. Surveys show that entrepreneurs are among the happiest people in business, despite the challenges. Yet it would pay real dividends to know at the start what separates the “also-rans” from the winners.