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Volunteering in Guatemala

David Cohen

The poverty rate in Guatemala is around 55%, so I decided to take Rollie to El Remete, Guatemala. Day 0 – Travel to Guatemala City before our next day connection Today was a travel day. We arrived in Guatemala City at 7pm, and got through customs and immigration fairly quickly.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

Restaurant owners and employees are being treated extremely poorly by many customers since service has changed with the lack of staffing. It requires instant customer service through social media and chatbots. The customer service industry is also bound to experience abrupt change. Photo Credit: Tyler Rice. 11- Cyber security.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

As an entrepreneur, I found myself three components of true motivation: people and their work, customers who give crucial feedback for your dear product and when complicated tasks turn to sophisticated solutions. 15- Helping with customer service and maintaining an active lifestyle. Thanks to Samantha Milner, Recipe This ! #12-

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Now you can use Wikipedia, the New York Times, or even your friends’ Web sites as your database—all without learning custom APIs. The small country of Guatemala is contributing positively to the advent of web 3.0? Lately, easy ways to single source content on the Web are appearing with new Semantic Web tools. General theme of Web 3.0

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6 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

Education is an industry ripe for disruption, but gentle reminder to investors and providers: as a human service business those disruptions must blend high-touch contact with personalized, good customer service. No pressure! Thanks to Terrell L. Strayhorn, PhD, Do Good Work LLC ! #4- 4- Automotive. Photo Credit: Anna Ozdelen.

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6 Forward-thinking Businesses That Are Making the World a Better Place

Up and Running

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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10 Recent Neuromarketing Research Studies (and Their Real-World Takeaways)

ConversionXL

What seem like merely aesthetic design choices may actually be the way your customers learn to trust you (or don’t).”. Offering familiar, trusted online payment options, such as PayPal, may reduce buying friction for reluctant customers. Failure to CAPTCHA Attention: Null Results from an Honesty Priming Experiment in Guatemala”.

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