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The Power Of Play In Business Culture

Duct Tape Marketing

Laughs and playfulness will connect your team and help strengthen bonds and relationships amongst them, which then will help solve issues that can be found in unhappy employees such as retention, engagement, physical and mental health problems, or lack of innovation and creativity. Kristi Herold (05:45): Absolutely.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

So, for the last two years, Kik has set about turning Kik into a mobile browser with a messenger at the center for distribution. The company is differentiating itself from the competition — both domestically in North America and in Asia — with its HTML5 focus. That is absolutely true of our team today,” Livingston says.

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Successful Remote Work Through Asynchronous Management

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (01:42): So I'll be the first to admit, when I saw the title of the book, I was like, oh yeah, a lot of companies are having to do distributed workforces and run remote today pretty clearly when we get into it, that's, you're not necessarily saying that's how to go. Liam Martin (01:40): Thanks for having me, John.

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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

Surprises always work to instill loyalty and retention. You can also print off coupons for their Human Resource department to distribute, or send them a digital coupon they can email to employees to print off. Statistically, 3-out-of-4 Internet users live in North America, making exposure on the web critical.

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30 Entrepreneurs Forecast Where Their Business Will Be In Five Years

Hearpreneur

#17- The foremost food sustainability consultancy in North America. While I believe that growth is necessary for both survival and evolution, letting our work speak for itself and establishing the brand reputation as the foremost food sustainability consultancy in North America is part and parcel of my five-year plan.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path.