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Public Relations Tips for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

But where do you start, and what are the best approaches to public relations for an entrepreneur? For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.”

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8 Tips to Ensure That Your Startup Doesn’t Fail

The Startup Magazine

The key to successful marketing is attracting customers and investors to your business through a variety of means, including print ads, website design, public relations efforts, and many other techniques that can attract customers to your business. Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed.

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

pexels A war chest is virtually always a competitive edge in all aspects that count, including employing key staff, public relations, marketing, and sales. This suggests the firm should have a list of paying customers, consistent sales cycles, a clear value proposition, and a developing revenue pipeline in the ideal situation.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media facilitates marketing and sales. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services. Servers needed expensive IT consultants for setup and maintenance, and required excessive power and cooling.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

6- Everyone who works in sales knows its meaning. We chose it because everyone who works in sales knows what it feels like to be treated like an insect. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. When we were searching for business ideas, my co-founder had an idea to use a Google translator.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Consumers can now conduct a wide variety of bank-related transactions from the comfort of their computers, tablets and mobile devices. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Consumers skip through the classic Google ads on Youtube but they sit through “tutorials” their favorite influencers deliver and drive up engagement and sales with the discount codes tailored to the influencer. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types.