Fri.Jul 31, 2015

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5 Social Media Blogs From Experts That Are Awesome

Brandanew

The good thing about online marketing is that it is not very hard to learn. In fact this is true for everything on the internet. It provides us more information that we can ever consume and that too for free. In fact it is complete opposite to the formal education we are used to. Actually everything in the online world evolves and changes so rapidly that it is not possible to create formal courses and taught through an academic year as the scene may change drastically even before the year ends.

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Episode 9: Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry | The Bcast

Up and Running

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | Pocket Casts | PlayerFM | Soundcloud. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show? Tweet at us: @Bplans (include the hashtag #BCast).

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8 Common Elevator Pitch Blunders, and How to Fix Them

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur needs a value proposition statement for his or her startup that can hook potential investors and partners in less than a minute -- the short time you might join them in an elevator on the way to their offices. This may sound easy, but every investor I know is frustrated by wasted time listening to rambling, emotional pitches that are not to the point.

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How Corporate Sponsorships Can Be A Big Help To Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Aleda Schaffer , a strategic partnerships manager at American Airlines. Launching a startup can be expensive. Many entrepreneurs take DIY to the extreme and would rather go broke than seek help. But there’s a highly underutilized option out there that could provide valuable products and services to startups and allow entrepreneurs to invest those resources in other areas of growth for their companies: a corporate sponsorship.

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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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10 ways to monetize your mobile app

The Next Web

Building a mobile app these days is easy. However, monetizing that same app has become nearly impossible, given how saturated the market is with free options (and potential customers unwilling to pay). So to find out how founders can make money from their app, I asked a group of entrepreneurs from YEC the following: Monetizing a mobile app has only gotten harder.

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Bring A Library On Vacation With An eBook App

YoungUpstarts

If you’re going away this summer, it’s possible that you’re already creating lists of the holiday essentials that you need to pack. You’ve probably already thought about your sunscreen, your swimsuit and all your toiletries, but have you considered what you’re going to do while you’re away? Unless you’re filling all of your time climbing mountains or doing water sports, it’s likely that you’re going to have a lot of down time that you could fill by getting lost within a good book.

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Universities: Helping Youths Into Business?

YoungUpstarts

Universities are under a constant attack from the media. Like vultures trying to peck a man to death for sustenance, tabloids circle campuses and comment on everything from controversial guest speakers, freedom of speech, teaching standards and tuition fees. The media is the hector at the side lines, shouting about any and all things education related – and they’re beginning to have a point.

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7 Tips To Deal With Difficult Customers

YFS Magazine

Here are 7 suggestions on how you can successfully handle those customers that are very hard to please.

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Your Small Business News Roundup 7.31.15

Up and Running

Bringing you the latest news on small business and more—this week it’s minimum wage, lion hunters, and the (supposedly) 10 billion dollar man. . Uncertainty, there and here. The Greek debt crisis has brought uncertainty not only to Europe, but to American importers as well. Shutdowns, short and long. Last Thursday, the SBA’s flagship 7a loan program hit its cap.

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These Are America’s Most Entrepreneurial Universities Of 2015

YFS Magazine

Here's an insider look at the top 10 startup research universities that made the 2015 Forbes list.

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Twitter Link Roundup #280 – We Love Great Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Every year, at their annual conference, Fonts from all over the world get together to discuss industry trends, innovative approaches, and strategy. Keynote talks, panel discussions, and breakout sessions are programmed to address the interests and concerns of the audience. But, every so often, controversy arises, things get heated, and debate devolves into argument and rancor.

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What Is Shared Hosting and Is it Reliable for a Business Website?

Duct Tape Marketing

What Is Shared Hosting and Is it Reliable for a Business Website? written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: flickr. Imagine that you are trying to start up a website for your company and you want to consider your options. Well, you first should perhaps consider what you are going to do for the exact purpose of the website (whether that is marketing, actually selling products, or offering an online service).

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