Wed.Aug 26, 2015

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7 Principles Of Business Agility To Dodge Disaster

Startup Professionals Musings

Most small businesses are trying to forget the last recession, and get back to “business as usual.” They don’t realize that business as usual is gone forever. With social media and smart phone conversations, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Entrepreneurs that are not listening, not engaging, and not changing will be left behind even in the best of times.

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Can Small Businesses Afford To Overlook BYOD Threats?

YFS Magazine

Far from being too small to be targeted, small businesses are frequently being seen as easier targets by criminals – due mainly to their lax attitudes towards security.

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SAP Nation 2.0 Excerpts: The S/4HANA launch

deal architect

In time for Labor Day weekend reading, 2.0 is starting to show up in book stores (print at CreateSpace and ebook at Amazon). As with previous books, I will be excerpting 10% of the contents over the next few weeks.

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5 Essential Ways To Promote Your Startup Business Online

YoungUpstarts

When you have a startup business, one of your primary tasks is to find ways to grow your new enterprise. Of course, you must do so without spending a fortune in the process! As you can appreciate, some startups find it harder to do that than others. The common way to help a business grow is by promoting it. Many startups use the Internet to help them achieve that goal, but seldom know the best ways to do that.

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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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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. ( Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event.

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Is Outsourcing Right For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Outsourcing remains a controversial topic in the business world. While preconceived notions of the subject may conjure up ideas of large scale manufacturing jobs heading overseas, the reality is a lot of smaller companies also partake in the practice as a way to stay competitive. Outsourcing non-essential tasks, like document management, help desks, and backend I.T. work, to both local and overseas companies allow business owners to focus more on high-priority goals that immediately improve thei

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How To Pick The Best Promotional Material For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

One way to market your business effectively is by using promotional material and products; that when paired with the advertising strategy, prove to be a very invaluable combination indeed. As picking the right promotional material is extremely important for the best interests of your business, how can you make sure that the material chosen will actually play its role in attracting customers (and keeping them interested in the long run), while also driving sales?

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How to Build a Brand: Infographic

Up and Running

You’ve validated your business idea, you’ve done your market research, and hopefully you’ve registered your business name. Now it’s time for the fun stuff. If you’ve ever wondered how to build a brand for your business, you’ve come to the right place. Do one portion of this infographic each day and in less than a week, you’ll have a good sense of not only how you are uniquely positioned to compete with others, but also how to convey your brand message

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Mobile has 60% of retail browsing and 15% of purchases

The Equity Kicker

I swore out loud earlier today when I read this statistic. 60 percent of retail browsing happens on mobile devices, those devices only account for 15 percent of dollars spent. That’s a massive opportunity, right there. And what’s interesting is that it’s still with us. Mobile first has been here for years now. We have good mCommerce models now for regular purchases – Uber and Amazon are two great examples – but for more occasional purchases apps don’t make sen

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‘Next Level’ Business Growth Requires These 3 Steps

YFS Magazine

The key to reaching the next level of success is thinking strategically, planning the path forward, and actually doing the work – right.

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Are you making money the cool way, or the uncool way?

Start Up Blog

There are two ways to generate lots of money – metaphorically, that is. The first way is through service to the many. . The second way is at the expense of the many. Put simply, we need to effect lots of people to generate lots of money. The theme for both of these is the same, but the methods are very different. The second way is through taking advantage of people – their weaknesses, their disadvantages, their social status, their education levels… To this day, in this modern

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Start Here If You’ve Never Searched for a Loan Online

Up and Running

The world of online lending is vast and intimidating. If you’ve never searched for a loan online, you probably have no idea where to start. But, that’s okay! If you need a small business loan, and are considering turning to Google to help you find a lender, use the handy guide below to help streamline that search. Decide how much you need. That’s right; before you even start to look for loan options, you need to stop and think about the loan size you need.

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Xenex Sees Big Market for Germ Zapping Robots

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Xenex’s germ zapping robots eradicate dangerous bacteria and viruses leading to lower cases of infectious diseases in the nation’s hospitals, according to several studies. “On a daily basis we are cleaning 5,000 to 7,000 rooms,” said Morris Miller, CEO of Xenex. Xenex created a mobile robot that […] The post Xenex Sees Big Market for Germ Zapping Robots appeared first on SiliconHills.

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B2(Small)B Niche Market

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Branden O’Neil – Marketing Strategy Coaches helps small businesses strategize TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post B2(Small)B Niche Market appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. ( Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% and the Nasdaq (which includes Apple, Google, Intel and other tech stalwarts) gained 4.2%.

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Selling on LinkedIn: What Goes Wrong?

Duct Tape Marketing

Selling on LinkedIn: What Goes Wrong? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Montague. Mike Montague. Despite the awesome power of LinkedIn for B2B lead mining I see very few people using it well. Because so many people simply spam folks a lot of people have actually started to ignore LinkedIn as a lead generation source.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% and the Nasdaq (which includes Apple, Google, Intel and other tech stalwarts) gained 4.2%.

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A Guide To Deciphering Intranet Terminology

YoungUpstarts

By Tim Eisenhauer, President of Axero Solutions. Technology products have a tendency to come wrapped in jargon. We’ve all overheard (or participated in) conversations and read articles that are stuffed with so much technical terminology, they might as well be in Greek. Deciphering this terminology requires a certain degree of knowledge and experience, and it can be intimidating.

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Half of Your Site Elements Are Useless. Which Half?

ConversionXL

Over half of your site elements don’t affect conversion rate the way you think they do. How to find out which elements help and which hurt your conversion rate? The solution is existence testing. This isn’t a problem only with websites. I once worked with a company where everyone was convinced that one member of a team was the main value driver for the team’s multimillion dollar project.

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Three Retail Trends This 2015 Holiday Season

YoungUpstarts

by Jake Gasaway, co-founder of Stitch Labs. Retailers are already busy prepping for the holiday season. But, before the season is in full swing, you’ll want to read about these three trends that will affect retail as consumers start shopping. As mobile, omnichannel, and data become more prevalent in consumer decisions, retailers must stay one step ahead.

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How Can Guest Posting Help You Establish A Personal Brand

Brandanew

Many amateur bloggers have been using guest posting purely as a method for building back links to their own sites. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s head of spam, said that the time of guest posting for link building is over. However, the big guys in the Content marketing world including: the founder of Quicksprout, the Buffer team, the Hubspot team and whosoever is on your “ best practice list ” are still guest posting.

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Politics, Business, Metrics, and Winning

Growthink Blog

Last week , I wrote about all of the amazing lessons of the world and science of Sports Metrics has to offer business. Well, with the 2016 Presidential Campaign heating up, let's talk how just as in sports the use of metrics in politics has jumped a full generation ahead of business. First, a little history and how perhaps the most famous use of metrics in politics is the one where the experts clearly got it wrong.

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