YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As a business owner, you should always strive to make sure that your customers enjoy a positive experience. Whether they’re visiting your shop, booking something online or simply calling to find out more, you need to leave a good impression. We live in an age where it’s easier than ever to communicate with clients around the clock. If you’re eager to improve your customer’s experience, here are some tips to make your business more interactive: Your website.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Whether you’ve just started your own business, or are considering it, what can you do to ensure it’s a success?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Motivation is incredibly important in the world of business. And people often forget just how important it is. We tend to think about sports stars when we think about motivation. But it’s important to remember that motivation is what keeps all your business endeavors going strong. All the personal elements you need have their roots in motivation. Good business requires patience.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

I’ll never forget my first client, shouting at me in frustration, “C’mon! It shouldn’t be this hard to make a decent advert! Anyone can do it!”. Twenty years down the line and hundreds of marketing promotions later, I’m no longer frustrating people so much because I’ve learned to take apart the meat and bones of promotions to better understand how to produce effective ads and literature.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Starting a successful business can be a lot of hard work. You have to think about so many factors that can determine whether you sink or swim. At the top of that list will be the location of your business. Did you know that the city you start your company in can influence your success? It’s true, there are many cities in the country that are better for small businesses than others.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As a long-time event organizer I have a few tips as to how to approach planning your first retreat.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

I spent a fortune on coffee that summer, but got more than I could ever measure out of talking to a whole range of helpful people. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

By Mario Moussa and Derek Newberry, authors of “ Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance “ If you want to learn invaluable lessons about leading people, you don’t need to look any further than Bruce Springsteen’s recently published memoir, “ Born to Run “ This is a rock star with substance. He can help raise your game, whether you are an entrepreneur, CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or – dare we say it?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Why Building Community Is Harder Than It Looks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This past month I was able to experience community in its most potent sense on two separate occasions, and I came away with an important insight about building community. Marketers today realize that a vibrant, engaged, loyal community is perhaps the greatest asset a brand can possess and often leads to an extremely profitable enterprise – whether that’s the intent of the organization or not.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Yes, running your own business can be an expensive proposition. We aren’t denying that but hopefully you’ve set yourself up for this, prior to starting out and aren’t too stressed at all about these little molehills becoming expensive mountains. However there are lots of ways to keep your costs down to a minimum and maintain the integrity of the business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Why Building Community Is Harder Than It Looks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This past month I was able to experience community in its most potent sense on two separate occasions, and I came away with an important insight about building community. Marketers today realize that a vibrant, engaged, loyal community is perhaps the greatest asset a brand can possess and often leads to an extremely profitable enterprise – whether that’s the intent of the organization or not.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

by Meghdad Abbaszadegan, adviser with Coplex. When I was 9 years old, I was super hyper and loved to hit things as hard as possible — in retrospect, I might have had some anger issues. Thankfully, my parents had the foresight to get me involved in tennis. I quickly fell in love with the sport. Tennis allowed me to let out some of my adolescent energy on the court while garnering praise for my efforts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As marketers, we spend countless hours acquiring traffic and crafting persuasive content, but too often we drop the ball at the final stage of the lead gen funnel – the form. We’ve all heard stories about the impact that forms have on conversion rates, like how Expedia made an extra $1 million per year by removing one field on their form or how Marketo received 34% more leads by experimenting with their form length.

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