Fri.Feb 19, 2016

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. Therefore, the more you test and improve your site, the higher it should appear in the rankings. You get more traffic, more conversions, more money – in an endless hockey stick shaped cycle.

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How to Hire the Right Leadership Team for Your Startup

Up and Running

One important thing to remember from the earliest days of your startup is that its success won’t rest solely on your own abilities. As soon as you start pulling together your first leadership team, you’ll be making big decisions about how to push your business to the next level and will be relying on others to share your vision and your passion. You’ll probably have limited resources —and you may have limited experience—which means it’s crucial to make each hire count.

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7 Indicators Of Employee To Entrepreneur Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and having graduated from a big company myself, I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. I typically suggest that the grass always looks greener on the other side, and the move from employee to entrepreneur is very risky and not for everyone.

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The Art Of Entrepreneurism

YoungUpstarts

By Ross Sapir, founder and CEO of Roadway Moving. Most successful individuals don’t start their career off daydreaming about working under their bosses, they’re daydreaming about being the boss. It takes a specific type of person to be able to make this daydream a reality though, regardless of the industry you’re in. Perseverance, persistence and potential are three important words every entrepreneur must have engrained in their psyche when first starting out.

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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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The Nigerian Prince(s) of Silicon Valley

The Next Web

Remember the Nigerian Prince email scam? It goes something like this: “I’m a very rich Nigerian Prince with a cash flow dilemma, and if you give me money today, I’ll give you more money tomorrow.” I’m paraphrasing, but you get the idea. This scam is funny now, right? Bill Hader recently starred in an Apple commercial celebrating the troubled royal in need of cash.

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Reasons A Business Needs To Use Warehousing

YoungUpstarts

Being the owner of a small business is no easy job and can be downright stressful at times. If the business you run is in the production of goods, then finding a way to be more productive and efficient should be your top goal. There are a number of things a business owner can do in order to help in the increased production and distribution of goods.

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Pros & Cons Of Non-Compete Agreements

YoungUpstarts

By Mike Freed , attorney at Gunster. Three of the most valuable assets of businesses are trade secrets, customer relationships and employees. Non-compete agreements can be an effective tool to protect these assets. Under the right circumstances and when properly drafted and implemented, non-compete agreements are enforceable in Florida. However, one size does not fit all when it comes to non-compete agreements, and there are pros, cons and limitations to their use.

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How To Keep Your Business Finances In Order

YFS Magazine

These tips and resources could help you have even greater financial success as you learn to keep your small business finances in order.

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Student Loan Genius Raises $3 Million in Seed Funding

SiliconHills

Student Loan Genius announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding. The Austin-based startup received the funds from Gibraltar Ventures, an affiliate of Prudential. Other participants included Kapor Capital, Capital Factory and Village Capital. Tony Aguilar co-founded Student Loan Genius to allow companies to help their employees pay off their student loans faster through […] The post Student Loan Genius Raises $3 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Your E-Commerce Website Will Not Survive Without This!

YFS Magazine

Designing a beautiful and user-friendly website and leaving it alone the next day is simply not enough.

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The simplest of business admin hacks

Start Up Blog

Business admin is one of those annoying things. Expenses, invoices, cleaning emails,… But I look forward to it. It’s that part of my day where I can turn off small parts of my brain, and turn on some enjoyment. My hack is allowing it to be a time when I listen to music, have a podcast on in the background, watching a documentary simultaneously, check out some 80’s video clips.

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Hot Tech Trends That Will Transform Banking, Health Care And Telecom

YFS Magazine

Here's a deeper look into the hottest sectors and how tech will ultimately transform them.

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Introducing Atlanta Stacks!

Jeff Hilimire

A good buddy of mine started a new kind of curated newsletter, Atlanta Stacks , and I wanted to a) figure out why he created it and b) spread the word, because I think it’s terrific. So I thought, sure, let’s do that at the same time! Who are you and what do you do? My name is Raleigh Gresham. Currently, I’m the Global Director of Business Traveler Insights and Experience at Intercontinental Hotels Group where I’m working to turn data into innovative hospitality by blending advanced

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How to Create Marketing Hype For Your New Launch

Brandanew

HBR says, about 75% of all CPG and retail products are failures in the first year. After launching very many products and services, I’ve personally learned this aspect in the hindsight. To create marketing hype for your new launch isn’t something you can do it in a day. It requires sustained effort, marketing push and the whole caboodle.

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How An iPad POS Can Streamline Your Business Operations

YoungUpstarts

Technology is everywhere. In virtually every industry, tech advances have changed the way we do business. IPad POS systems are quickly taking over from their predecessors, bulky terminals and PC-based software applications. Previous incarnations were clumsy, difficult to operate, not very effective and limited in both functionality and features. Today’s iPad-based systems answer all of those needs.

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Do We Want An FBiOS?

Feld Thoughts

Super Cooper (our new dog – now one year old) woke me up at 4:45 this morning so I got up, let him out, got a cup of coffee, sat down in front of my computer, and spent the next hour going down the rabbit hole of the FBI / Apple phone unlock backdoor encryption security controversy. After an hour of reading, I feel even more certain that Apple is totally in the right and the FBI’s request should be denied.

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5 SEO Metrics Small Businesses Should Prioritize

Duct Tape Marketing

5 SEO Metrics Small Businesses Should Prioritize written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Keyhole. It’s a problem almost every marketer has dealt with: opening their analytics suite to face a mind-boggling pool of stats, graphs, and figures. Where do you start? And which numbers should a small business track to get the most out of its investment in digital marketing ?

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