Tue.Dec 06, 2016

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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Worrying is a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Worry” causes the very thing you’re worried about, to actually happen. When you’re backstage getting more and more anxious that your performance won’t be good, you’re implanting thoughts of second-guessing and fear that will arise during the performance. Instead, you should realize you’ve already done all the practice required, and mistakes don’t actually matter anyway.

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7 Insanely Easy Ways to Mess Up Your Social Media Efforts in 2017

Brandanew

Your social media efforts in 2017 will define how your brand is perceived by new and existing customers. Social media has already become an integral part of the overall marketing strategy. It’s obviously a powerful tool of influencing target audiences and selling your product to the right people. And, as usual, with great power comes great responsibility.

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Smart Startups: 5 Strategic Ways To Stretch Your Startup Capital

YoungUpstarts

Starting up a company is an exciting and stressful time, and every dollar you have inevitably ends up going toward your new startup. There are ways to stretch the money you launch your startup with, and they can be anything from day to day things, such as not buying a coffee on the way to work, to bigger investment style things, like installing outdoor blinds to increase seating capacity at your brand new cafe.

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Why Goliath Should Be One Season Only

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I watched the Amazon series Goliath last month. It was deeply awesome. Deeply deeply awesome. We also watched The Night Manager which we loved almost as much. And, at the end of each, I said to Amy, “They should end this now and not do a Season 2.” Goliath captured my attention more.It had amazing character development. Bill Bob Thornton, who I’ve always liked, was at his best, William Hurt was excruciatingly delicious, Nina Arianda made me root for her every time she s

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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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Knowing When To Hire An Accountant

YoungUpstarts

by Jay Connelly, Operations Executive at IASeminars. A business owner’s work is never done – and between daily operational duties, juggling finances, overseeing advertising and marketing strategies, and keeping one eye on company growth at all times, running a startup can be demanding to say the least. When these jobs mount up beyond the point of being manageable, many SME owners make the decision to identify the sorts of intensive and time-consuming tasks they could benefit from outsourci

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Survival of the Fittest Variation: Evolutionary Algorithms in Optimization

ConversionXL

If you read this blog regularly, you probably don’t need an introduction to CRO or A/B testing. You know the major players, best practices, and you’ve likely tested your fair share of ideas. But, as an expert, you likely know some of the persistent frustrations with current approaches. To name just a pair: Testing simply takes time. Our best instincts are often wrong.

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Techxit: The Digital Repercussions Of Brexit

YFS Magazine

Britain’s exit from the EU is something that many companies are still only just coming to terms with as they try to understand the impact it might have.

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5 Game-Changing Things To Remember When Purchasing Monitor Stands

YoungUpstarts

In the ever-changing world of technology, there are always new things to see and new things to buy to aid you in your technological quandaries. This goes for private use, but also for the professional side of technological use, namely desktop computers and laptops. When you are looking to optimize your employees’ efficiency, sometimes you need a dual monitor stand to clear their desk of monitor bases, allowing for more desk room for paperwork, or sometimes you need a more powerful laptop to han

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UK: Tech talent remains

The Equity Kicker

This is a chart from Atomico’s 2016 State of the Nation report. As a UK investor and citizen it’s pleasing to see that we’re the top destination for tech industry migrants by quite some distance. What’s interesting is that this is a self-reinforcing metric. As noted elsewhere in the report, when people move country to start their company, access to talent is their primary consideration.

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Tips And Tricks For Promoting Your eCommerce Store

YoungUpstarts

As a very small fish in a big pond, to be discovered by customers you need to promote correctly. Even if you’ve done your market research and know what customers want, and are selling good quality items in order to secure those all important sales there are a few things you need to do. Here’s how you can help boost your e-commerce store: Choose a Good e-Commerce Platform.

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Omni-Channel Product

SVPG

Have you ever received a text notification from your airline about a flight delay before the ground crew in the waiting area has the information? Have you been unclear on whether to call your bank’s web support or banking support line to answer a particular question? Are you baffled by the differences in your favorite retailer’s in-store and online experiences?

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Tips For How To Wisely Invest In Communication Technology

YoungUpstarts

The advances of modern technologies have dramatically changed the way we communicate and do business. Gone are the days of having to write to a company, cut out an order form to post, or have to visit a company personally to acquire their products or services. In modern times, we can simply connect to a website via a personal computer or mobile device and almost instantly get in touch with the ideal person to assist or answer any questions we have.

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Looking for some new team members at Dragon Army

Jeff Hilimire

Things have been really rolling at Dragon Army lately. And the addition of new clients means we need new team members! And I don’t want to stack the deck too much, but yesterday we announced we’re taking the company on a cruise in 2017 , so, yeah there’s that reason to join us ;). First and foremost, we want the right kind of people.

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Protect Your Angel Investors

Austin Startup

Background Reading: Burned Relationships Burn Down Companies The Fiduciary Duties of Founders Angel Investors v. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Benefits Site Continues to Grow

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Benefits Site Continues to Grow appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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4 Easy Ways To Improve Your Business Diversity

YoungUpstarts

by Heather Landau, founder of Start An American Company.com. An increasing body of evidence suggests that business with more diverse executive boards perform better, while greater racial and gender diversity of staff introduces different points of view, encouraging creative thinking and innovation. Yet the employment of women and minorities still lags well behind the proportion of the population in many key industries, with tech and engineering particular problem areas.

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Without This ‘One Thing’ Marketing Is Infinitely Harder

YFS Magazine

You’ve probably heard this before, maybe even from me. But it’s only recently that I’ve come to realize how much this trumps everything else.

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Disrupt or be Disrupted

Duct Tape Marketing

Disrupt or be Disrupted written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In a few short years much of what you do, make, fix, sell, and ship, won’t mean much to anyone. In fact, there’s a pretty good chance that if you stay put doing whatever it is your business does right now – you’ll be out of business. If you want to survive, let alone thrive, you must tap new trends and produce new ideas at an accelerating rate.