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Two Business Tools That Boost Your Marketing Efforts 

YoungUpstarts

To do lists, Scrum tools, power bi and many more tools , which can optimize processes and ultimately create the most productive and efficient company that will generate growth for your company. Data can be used to create the proper messages, create the right content for your audience and much more. Creating content with Adobe Cloud.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

If you’re working on important documents and don’t want to get spelling wrong (especially if you’re working in the cloud), this handy extension is for you. As you may suspect, this is one audience you can rely on to produce good content or great lists. Google Dictionary extension. Install it here. Need to check spelling?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

The traditional buyer’s funnel relies on linear decision-making, assuming that an audience will move neatly to become a prospect, then customer. To build a playground such that your audience experiences a seamless journey, no matter which path they take? Breaking content out of the linear funnel. Choosing what to talk about.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. Solution #2: Put everything in the cloud where the whole team can access it. So we just flag these now and address them during the next chat or on the spot if everyone is there.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. But she observed that these venues were just playing the same thing you could watch on your television at home, even though the context and audience was very different.

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