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14 Signs Your Website Is Causing You To Lose Sales

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at 14 tell-tale signs that your website is need of a refresh.

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SAP: In Oracles rear view mirror?

deal architect

I struck me when Infosys CEO, Vishal Sikka talked about his acquisition of Panaya in his keynote this afternoon, how little attention SAP has received at Oracle OpenWorld this year.

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Key Contracts Every Business Must Use

YoungUpstarts

by Tej Prakash, co-founder of ShouldiSign.com. Owners of a business are constantly dealing with people (both internal to the business and external) and other businesses. It’s these relationships that, more often than not, make a business successful. Think about it – when is the last time a business didn’t benefit from having smart employees or strong customer relationships?

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Oracle AI: Adaptive Intelligence

deal architect

As Steve Miranda previewed last week, one of the more interesting announcements this week at Oracle OpenWorld is around its Adaptive Intelligent Applications. Steve had said “Basically, what we're doing is leveraging our data cloud, which I know you're familiar.

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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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7 things a large stinkbug on the back porch can teach startup founders

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Clickbait works. Stop clicking on crap and get back to work.

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When you get a sense of inevitability from a founder’s pitch…

Version One Ventures

I recently tweeted…. Getting this sense of inevitability from a founder is incredibly powerful. I instantly start believing that their vision is going to happen. As an investor, I want to get on board and help propel the team to their destination. So, what exactly do I mean by this? What are some of the strongest signals that come from a pitch to indicate inevitability?

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Empathic Design: Mapping Your Brain, Brand, and Data

ConversionXL

What’s the best way to increase conversions? Apart from basic usability fixes, aligning your messaging and design with your users’ motivations is a good bet. Problem is, discovering user motivations is one of those things that is much easier said than done. There are, however, research techniques that purport to do just that. Empathic design is one such technique, an underutilized facet of qualitative research.

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Smart Event Planners Do These 7 Things Really Well (And Clients Love Them for It)

YFS Magazine

Here’s an inside look at 7 things the world’s best event planners do really well to create extraordinary experiences.

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Whurley Helps in ITU and UN Women’s Global Mission for Gender Equality

SiliconHills

William Hurley, known as Whurley and co-founder of Honest Dollar and Chaotic Moon in Austin, is on a global mission to help women and girls learn technology skills and find jobs. International Telecommunications Union and the United Nations Women announced Tuesday that they have teamed up with Whurley to drive an intensive global engagement and […] The post Whurley Helps in ITU and UN Women’s Global Mission for Gender Equality appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How FX Marketing President Stephanie Gibbons Stuck the American Horror Story Promotional Landing

crowdSPRING Blog

You might not be an American Horror Story fan. I wouldn’t blame you. The extravagant horror anthology from Ryan Murphy is at turns decadent, grotesque, and terrifying, and that’s not for everyone. But even if the scary stuff isn’t your thing, you should definitely be a fan of FX President of Marketing Stephanie Gibbons after the way she tackled the show’s most recent marketing campaign.

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How do I deal with uncommitted employees?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How do I deal with uncommitted employees? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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How FX Marketing President Stephanie Gibbons Stuck the American Horror Story Promotional Landing

crowdSPRING Blog

You might not be an American Horror Story fan. I wouldn’t blame you. The extravagant horror anthology from Ryan Murphy is at turns decadent, grotesque, and terrifying, and that’s not for everyone. But even if the scary stuff isn’t your thing, you should definitely be a fan of FX President of Marketing Stephanie Gibbons after the way she tackled the show’s most recent marketing campaign.

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We’re Growing… so When do we Invest in Sales?

Austin Startup

This is the sixth article in a series on creating consistent growth over a decade, based on what we learned from our experiences at BP3. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How FX Marketing President Stephanie Gibbons Stuck the American Horror Story Promotional Landing

crowdSPRING Blog

You might not be an American Horror Story fan. I wouldn’t blame you. The extravagant horror anthology from Ryan Murphy is at turns decadent, grotesque, and terrifying, and that’s not for everyone. But even if the scary stuff isn’t your thing, you should definitely be a fan of FX President of Marketing Stephanie Gibbons after the way she tackled the show’s most recent marketing campaign.

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How to Maximize Sales from Abandoned Carts with Cart Regeneration

ConversionXL

A Rejoiner study found that over 50% of the cart abandonment emails they send are opened on a device that is different than the one the customer originally abandoned on. A typical situation is a person browsing your site on mobile, perhaps adding items to their cart as a “wishlist”, then never completing their purchase. Wouldn’t it be great if you could email them with the exact items they’d left in their cart, and restore their cart with those items, no matter what device they use when they cl

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Why You Should Stop Worrying About Raising VC Money for Your Tech Startup

Up and Running

When I was seeking a co-founder for my startup, each time I’d dive deep into a discussion about commitment with potential partners, they’d bring up venture capitalists and fundraising. An early question among potential co-founders during these discussions was always “have you raised money yet?” as if it’s a requirement of doing a tech startup. It seems like a common trend with first-time tech entrepreneurs—and even some more experienced entrepreneurs—to think of fundraising as a required step in

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SaaS Wars: Europe Awakens

Cracking the Code

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Findings were presented at SaaStock 2016- Software is eating the world, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is eating software. Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B.

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Is Canva the Company That Will Disrupt the Design World? Not Quite

crowdSPRING Blog

Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. It’s a nice concept, which is probably why it’s grown astronomically.

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Is Canva the Company That Will Disrupt the Design World? Not Quite

crowdSPRING Blog

Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. It’s a nice concept, which is probably why it’s grown astronomically.

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Is Canva the Company That Will Disrupt the Design World? Not Quite

crowdSPRING Blog

Canva, the graphic design platform promoting itself as tool that empowers the world to design, is not new. It launched in 2013 with $3 million in seed money from American and Australian investors, and offers a series of templates intended to make good design easier to execute and more accessible. It’s a nice concept, which is probably why it’s grown astronomically.

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