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Going Global: How To Build A Distributed Team

YoungUpstarts

Going global is often a requisite growth path for businesses seeking to expand and whilst the model of setting up satellite offices is a tried and tested way to expand overseas a more recent organizational model is that of ‘distributed’ teams or companies. Distributed Teams: An Overview.

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How To Hire And Train A New Employee During The Summer (When Most People Are On Vacation)

YoungUpstarts

Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. On top of the normal difficulties of the hiring process, HR also has to deal with its high seasonality.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. A flexible model is especially helpful for startups that can’t always predict what talent they will need when, and have low budgets that force them to hire for project work instead of filling in-house positions. Factors that are tipping the scales.

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Marketing Analytics: Attribution Is Not Incrementality

Occam's Razor

From there, it is a hop, skip, and a jump to, hey, am I getting all the credit I should for the Conversions being driven by my marketing tactics? Right then and there, your VP of Finance steps in with a, hey, how many of these conversions that you are claiming are ones that we would not have gotten anyway? AKA: Attribution!

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. I always push companies to hire “an operationally focused CFO” during this phase because in order to systematize you need somebody who brings economic rigor to decision making. were more distributed.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Here’s how the guide is promoted on Twitter: The informative, conversational tone and fun imagery are the same as the post on the Visme website: And the same vibe as the video embedded in the guide: Visme maintains consistency throughout the customer journey. Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.