Wed.Oct 14, 2015

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How Restaurants Are Using Social Media Effectively (And What You Can Learn)

Brandanew

When all businesses are using social media , why should restaurants be left behind? However, due to very nature of their business, the social strategies across industries need to be customized. For restaurants- similar to many brick and mortar businesses, the key interest is using social to increase physical footfalls. Let us have a look at how restaurants are using social media effectively and what you can learn from them (you could tailor them to your industries too!).

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Build Transformify - ?#?Creative? ?#?Web? ?#?Developer? TRJOB-8

Transformify

Transformify is growing and we look forward to welcoming new ?#‎members ?in our ?#‎virtual?team?: ?#‎Creative? ?#‎Web? ?#‎Developer? TRJOB-8. Want to work remotely and love our web site? Then why don't you help us to make it even better? You will work closely with our Digital Marketing Execs to deliver digital content on time.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

Both Sides of the Table

Today Twitter announced it had laid off around 336 jobs or 8% of its workforce. Nobody should celebrate, cheer or shout, “it’s about time.” This is about 336 people whose lives are altered and need to begin looking for work, saying goodbye to friends & colleagues and go on that journey of transition that most people dread. I wish all of them well and feel confident that anybody employed at one of the most innovative companies of the past 10 years will land on his or her fe

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5 Steps To Finding A Partnership For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car ma

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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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Considering Employee Safety In Startup Mode

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. In all business organizational structures, there are several major elements. These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. Employee safety is a significant part of daily business operations. This is true for small non-manufacturing businesses to large scale production and manufacturing.

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Oslo and Austin: Creative Cities on the Edge of Innovation

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News OSLO, NORWAY – At SXSW 2015, Austin and Oslo announced a memorandum of understanding to forge a Creative Cities Alliance. At the time, Oslo had its own SX lounge and Norwegian company Kahoot!, which has most of its customers in Texas, announced that it would office in […] The post Oslo and Austin: Creative Cities on the Edge of Innovation appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Will device and OS proliferation break the app economy?

The Equity Kicker

Jerry Bowerman wrote an interesting article on Techcrunch yesterday arguing that device and OS proliferation is driving the cost of supporting apps up to unsustainable levels. The evidence cited is that corporate departments spend $40bn per year on apps, more than twice consumer spend, and that they are reaching aggressively for “create once, run anywhere” solutions.

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Leap From Employee To Entrepreneur With These Essential Tips

YFS Magazine

The transition from employee to entrepreneur is filled with unexpected changes to the way you work, and the way you live.

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Going Global: 8 Things to Consider If You Want to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

Today, the world is remarkably small. 500 years ago—give or take—it took Magellan three long years before he became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the globe. It claimed the lives of hundreds of people, ravaged many with disease, and by all accounts was a tad complicated. By comparison, in today’s digital age, we can sit down with our laptops, buy something from the other side of the world, and have it arrive on our doorstep within 72 hours. .

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How To Create A Company Culture Of Innovation

YFS Magazine

Make a conscious choice for innovation so you don’t have to worry about how to inject innovation 20 years later.

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Atlas Wearables Celebrates as it Begins Shipping its Fitness Tracker

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Atlas Wearables officially launched sales of its new $249 Atlas Wristband fitness tracker at a party Tuesday night. After two years in development, the Austin-based startup is now shipping the devices to its customers and taking orders on its website, said Peter Li, CEO and co-founder. The […] The post Atlas Wearables Celebrates as it Begins Shipping its Fitness Tracker appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING: badaboom

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for badaboom. Check out more great work on badaboom ’s profile page. Nicely done, badaboom, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE. Fresh from the SPRING: Janisa.

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Firefly Space Systems Lands $5.5 Million NASA Contract

SiliconHills

NASA has selected Firefly Space Systems, based in Cedar Park, for a $5.5 million contract to demonstrate a CubeSat launch by March of 2018, according to a news release. Firefly, a private aerospace firm founded in 2014, plans to launch small to medium sized satellites to orbit. NASA awarded the contract as part of its […] The post Firefly Space Systems Lands $5.5 Million NASA Contract appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Modern Business Wisdoms from Ricky Roma (among others)

Growthink Blog

"Why don't my prospects buy? “Even after - especially after - I demonstrate (and they agree!) such awesome ROI from purchasing my offerings? This palatable lament has been expressed by entrepreneurs and salespeople since time immemorial, but perhaps never so consistently and discouragingly as in this " Buyer Power " Internet Era of ours. Yes, no matter what product or service we are selling these days, it is quite likely being received in the market by some frustrating combination of apathy, dis

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Build Transformify - ?#?PHP? ?#?Developer? TRJOB-4

Transformify

Transformify is growing and we look forward to welcoming new ?#‎members ?in our ?#‎virtual?team?: ?#‎PHP? ?#‎Developer? TRJOB-4. Do you want to work from any place in the world and be part of a virtual team? Do you want to help thousands of people around the world find virtual remote jobs and make a living? Do you have at least 2 years of experience developing for Web with PHP & MySQL on Unix using Git?

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What Does it Take to Create Great Content?

Duct Tape Marketing

What Does it Take to Create Great Content? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Demian Farnworth via Twitter. Marketing Podcast with Demian Farnworth. There’s no question the bar has been raised in the content game. It’s gotten harder, it’s gotten more competitive and most importantly it’s become an expectation.

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5 Indispensible Habits Of Great Product Leaders

Street Smart Product Manager

As a product management leader, there are many demands on your time. It’s easy to get sucked into working on the most pressing issues and on meeting other people’s expectations. As “do-ers”, it’s in our nature to jump on these issues immediately. We pride ourselves on our competence to tackle these right away. But when we do … Continue reading 5 Indispensible Habits Of Great Product Leaders.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 6: Al Milukas, and Zahra Aljabri and James Faghmous

Steve Blank

Sometimes your passion is what you think about outside your day job. And sometimes solving your own needs turns into a startup opportunity. Passion and need — two ingredients that help drive success for startups. The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111, shared how a passion for food, and a personal need for modest but fashionable clothing fueled decisions to begin second careers as startup founders.

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Valence, Arousal, and How To Kindle an Emotional Fire

ConversionXL

As much as we’d like to think that we’re rational, fact is, we make many of our decisions emotionally, under the veil of rationality. Clicks, shares, purchases, comments, engagement: all subject to emotional decision making. Emotional persuasion is a vast topic – on which we’ve written a guide – so it’s helpful to hone in on a specific aspect of the subject: valence and arousal.

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How Search Engine Optimization Can Bring You More Clients

YoungUpstarts

by On Yavin , founder and CEO of Exactive Marketing LTD. If you’re planning to be competitive in today’s business climate, you can’t afford to overlook the trends and opportunities of the ever-evolving digital age. Regardless of what business you’re in, modern marketing platforms can help you reach your customers more quickly and more efficiently.

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