Fri.Sep 04, 2015

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4 Things To Do On Sunday (That Have Nothing to Do With Monday)

YoungUpstarts

by Tony Delmercado, founder of 1099.me and COO at Hawke Media. I got into an argument the other day with someone who told me I didn’t understand what he has to do to succeed or how much time it requires — which is all the time. “That’s a choice,” I said. It’s good to not be busy. Just turn off the phone. No one will die. There’s a cultural phenomenon happening right now that might have you believing your business or career won’t grow fast enough if you aren’t constantly working.

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How To Pick The Best Idea For Your Next Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A common request I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to assess things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds. I can assess execution plans, if you have any. Yet I believe that business success is more a function of the person than the idea or the plan, so the best idea is one that is a best fit for you, and only you can assess that.

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How To Create Remarkable Brand Slogans (And Some Funny Ones!)

Brandanew

Slogans and logos are a quintessential part of branding. We see clever use of slogans not only in business but also in a lot of other fields such as politics and sports. The beauty of slogans is that there is no fixed formula for creating one. Something just catches on while some others simply just do not make a dent. It is hard come up with a winning slogan just by scratching the paper a million times over.

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This Is The Droid You Are Looking For

Feld Thoughts

One of the most enjoyable things I get to do in my job is to be involved in creating amazingly fun products. If you hang around in our office at Foundry Group you see plenty of Makerbots, Fitbits, an Oblong Mezzanine, an Occipital Structure Sensor, ModRobotics Cubelets, littleBits, 3D Robotics drones, and Spheros. Now we’ve got some BB-8s (from Sphero) in our office.

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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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5 Steps Towards Effective Storytelling

Brandanew

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/179651472612436098/. Effective storytelling can build or change your brand image. However, it is not easy to tell a story effectively. It takes certain skills to develop the story in the manner that evokes the emotions that you want your audience to feel and it is even true for brand stories and other such business writings.

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The UK is still hot for ecommerce

The Equity Kicker

Us Brits are famously a nation of shoppers, and that’s translated into being a nation of online shoppers. For a while we’ve spent more online per head than other developed economies and created more than our fair share of ecommerce winners as a result. New data out from eCommerce Europe shows the picture hasn’t changed and that there’s still a lot of growth to come: in 2013 the UK spent $142bn on eCommerce, third in the world on a gross spend basis behind the USA and Chin

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Your Small Business News Roundup 9.4.15

Up and Running

Bringing you the latest on small business news and more—this week we’re covering the rise of native advertising, apps for farmers, and a decline in lending to small businesses. . Ad wars. Seeking to dodge ad blockers, many companies are shifting more toward native ads and other online marketing strategies. Google has announced it will begin punishing sites with pushy ads that try to force users to install apps.

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Belinda Weaver: How To Go From A ‘Paid-By-The-Hour’ Freelance Copywriter To Making Money While You Sleep Selling Information Products

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Belinda Weaver offers one of the best examples I have ever heard of someone carefully planning and executing the transformation from full time employee, to freelancer (paid-by-the-hour or per contract), to independent blogging entrepreneur selling her own. The post Belinda Weaver: How To Go From A ‘Paid-By-The-Hour’ Freelance Copywriter To Making Money While You Sleep Selling Information Products appear

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Austin-based SiteCondor Sold to gShift of Canada

SiliconHills

Judd Lyon and Sebastian Brocher accomplished what a lot of entrepreneurs strike out to do in Austin. They bootstrapped their startup and sold it for a handsome profit. They recently sold SiteCondor, website auditing tools for digital agencies and content marketers, to gShift Labs, based in Toronto, Canada. The terms of the deal were not […] The post Austin-based SiteCondor Sold to gShift of Canada appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Save Time And Money Working With Lawyers

YFS Magazine

New founders often approach service providers, generally—and lawyers in particular—with a degree of caution.

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From the Vault: Labor Day! TCB and TCP

crowdSPRING Blog

EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally published this post back in 2012. Next month crowdSPRING will move from a 60% remote work environment to around 90%! This means that the team will gather together on just one day per week, the rest of the time we will be working remote from our homes, hotel rooms, Starbucks, front porches, or wherever we can find a decent WiFi signal!

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4 Essential Blogging Tips For Your Small Business

YFS Magazine

How can you stay true to your brand and use your company blog effectively?

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“With this thing you’re doing to help the community, what’s in it for YOU?”

Jeff Hilimire

Yesterday morning I had coffee on the Dragon Army deck with my first tennis coach, Dave Mathews. Dave is so many things to me, but friend and mentor are probably the two best descriptions, in that order. He’s been a gigantic influence in my life for the past, GULP, 25 years. Wow, I’m old. After catching up on old times, we started talking about things that we were both doing to help the community.

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How to Tune Up Your Email Marketing So You Can Improve Conversions and Make More Money

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Tune Up Your Email Marketing So You Can Improve Conversions and Make More Money written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. You’ve worked hard growing an email list. Now you’re ready to make some money. You ship the magic email and wait, but the sales fall short of your goals. I know what it’s like to spend an entire weekend clicking the refresh button begging for at least one new sale.

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Apogee Buys Campus Televideo

SiliconHills

Apogee, higher education’s largest provider of residential network services, announced Friday it has purchased Campus Televideo of Stamford, Connecticut. The Austin-based company did not report the financial terms of the deal. Campus Televideo, founded in 1984, will now operate as a division of Apogee. “Apogee’s acquisition of CTV is a significant milestone and a proud […] The post Apogee Buys Campus Televideo appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Tune Up Your Email Marketing So You Can Improve Conversions and Make More Money

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Tune Up Your Email Marketing So You Can Improve Conversions and Make More Money written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You’ve worked hard growing an email list. Now you’re ready to make some money. You ship the magic email and wait, but the sales fall short of your goals. I know what it’s like to spend an entire weekend clicking the refresh button begging for at least one new sale.

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Lessons from 8 of the Greatest Marketers of All Time

Mike Michalowicz

The greatest marketers of all time bring us different lessons, approaches and philosophies but they all achieve the same results — conversions and loyalty. Create your own marketing with one, or a combination of the most famous marketing techniques of all time: Walt Disney: (Have the people making it, use it) To create a truly remarkable Disney World that could literally market itself, Walt had both corporate and park employees ride the rides before they opened to the public.

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The growth imperative (but beware)

VC Adventure

First off, a note of apology. It’s been months since I’ve posed here. Not for lack of desire – more about some combination of crazy busyness and lack of proper prioritization. I miss it and am going to try to step it up. This is a post about the importance of growth, about the current market environment and a note of caution if the growth imperative changes rapidly to the profitability imperative.

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Twitter Link Roundup #285 – Labor Day! Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

I know this guy. He’s a musician and a visual artist. His music is ethereal and dark and his motion design work is reflective of that. I actually know him pretty well, because he’s my son! So, shameless me – the video above is the work of Cody Samson – music, motion graphics, direction, and editing – along with the cinematographer Brian Pucci, Production Designer Kai La’Rosa and the animators Jigyu Yoon and Leo Mendes, they have produced a beautiful work.