Wed.Nov 23, 2016

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How To Keep Track Of Employees’ Hours

YoungUpstarts

Keeping track of the hours your employees are working is essential. Upon starting out a business it may seem like a simple task. But once you start taking into account lunch breaks, people having to go home early or working overtime, holidays, sick days, jury duty and all other manner of paid absences, it can all get very complex. There are various methods in action today for keeping on top of your staff’s working hours.

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

The ROI of Lead Scoring written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. According to the Content Marketing Institute, more than 85% of marketers consider lead generation to be their top priority in 2016 – a telling statistic on the priorities of the modern marketer. However, lead generation neglects a critical element for creating a real return on investment: lead scoring.

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How Parcel Tracking Has Changed The Parcel Delivery Process

YoungUpstarts

Sending packages a few years back was a daunting procedure as you would have to take your parcel to the post office, stand in the queue to pay for it and then leave it under a charge of the post office authorities for safe couriering. After this lengthy procedure, you can expect your parcel to be delivered successfully at the mentioned address within a few days.

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#GivingThanks: Lucy Sanders and NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

Next up in my #GivingThanks series – in appreciation for people during Thanksgiving who have had a profound impact on me – is Lucy Sanders , the CEO of the National Center for Women & Information Technology ( NCWIT ). Unlike the last post about the Jason Mendelson Entrepreneurial Award Fund , I’m not going to bury the lede – go here if you’d like to make a financial gift to NCWIT as part of #GivingThanks.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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How to Be a Business Owner and Also Have a Life

Up and Running

According to The Alternative Board’s January 2016 Small Business Pulse Survey, the average business owner works 49.4 hours per week—but they’d love to cut that down to 41.7. Last year, our research showed that the number one reason business owners start a company is to be their own boss. Considering business owners are working 400 hours a week more per year than they want to be, it seems they’re no longer their own boss—the work is.

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5 Hacks For Streamlined IT Efforts

YoungUpstarts

by Ashley Walsh, VP of Marketing for Formstack. IT problems can create major setbacks for small and medium businesses. Staying on task and accomplishing goals becomes a problem when technology needs get in the way. Resolving tech issues quickly and efficiently allows businesses to focus on more important projects that better the company as a whole.

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Turning Ride Sharing Into A Superb Moneymaking Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

The sharing economy is really transforming the way we live. Instead of doing things as individuals, there is so much more to be achieved by working together and sharing. Ride sharing is a particularly successful industry based on the principles of sharing economy. Companies like Uber and Lyft are growing at a staggering rate as the market grows just as rapidly.

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Healthcare Entrepreneurs: How To Grow Your Private Practice

YFS Magazine

Learning more about the true costs of a practice can help you get up and running (without sticker shock) or streamline your existing practice.

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Top Startup Ideas That Allow You To Interact Directly With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

These days, many businesses function at a distance from the people that they aim to serve. Thanks to the internet, it’s possible for a business to find success without ever meeting its customers. Can this ever be truly sustainable, though? And even if it can be, is it the way you want to run a business? Many people prefer to make their companies part of the community and build one to one relationships with customers.

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Our Company Received A Cease And Desist Letter. Now What?

YFS Magazine

Nobody wants to get cease and desist letter, but they happen and you need to be prepared.

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Create Your Own Language For Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

The first time you went to Starbucks, words like Tall, Venti, and Macchiato may have confused you. That was by design. Star Bucks knows that loyalty is formed out of belonging. When a group can distinguish itself with its own internal language, the loyalty only strengthens (and so. Of course, the trick is getting new folks quickly acclimated to the language so that they feel like insiders and not outsiders.

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How to Successfully Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Successfully Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Finkel. So here’s the big question – you started a business, so do you own a business or did you create a hard, sometimes low-paying job? To me, the big distinction lies in your ability to successfully scale and get free from the daily demands of the business.

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Create Your Own Language For Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

The first time you went to Starbucks, words like Tall, Venti, and Macchiato may have confused you. That was by design. Star Bucks knows that loyalty is formed out of belonging. When a group can distinguish itself with its own internal language, the loyalty only strengthens (and so. Of course, the trick is getting new folks quickly acclimated to the language so that they feel like insiders and not outsiders.

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Dots, Lines.Marriage

Babbling VC

To understand this post you are going to have to first go and read Max's post as well as Mark's initial post. Go ahead.I'll wait. The response below to Max was simply too long as a comment on his Facebook post and I prefer to share it with everyone. . Max, first things first: I am not trying to argue in one direction or the other but technically you are not investing in "dots" if you truly are doing extensive references.

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Top 10 Considerations Of Medical Website Design

YoungUpstarts

In this contemporary era, more and more medical business owners are realizing that having a great website can empower them to attain new patients and optimize their conversion rates. If you’re new to the world of web design and want to know how you can use it to your medical company’s advantage, this is the article for you. Below you will find the top 10 considerations you should keep in mind as you plan to put a website together: 1.

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Dots, Lines.Marriage

Babbling VC

To understand this post you are going to have to first go and read Max's post as well as Mark's initial post. Go ahead.I'll wait. The response below to Max was simply too long as a comment on his Facebook post and I prefer to share it with everyone. . Max, first things first: I am not trying to argue in one direction or the other but technically you are not investing in "dots" if you truly are doing extensive references.

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What apps do you use to get the news?

Jeff Hilimire

I can be a bit of a news junkie…and an app junkie. And with those two bad habits, I’m always interested in what apps people use to get their news. Right now I’m using the following, in order of times I check them per day: Flipboard – I use this app the most, checking it frequently throughout the day. I love the ability to customize the different channels I subscribe to (like CNN, etc.,) and the UI is still the best in my opinion.

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The 3 Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Entering The Competitive Travel Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

Despite the perceived impact of Brexit, small businesses in the UK appear excited about the prospect of a future outside of the EU. SMEs are planning with renewed confidence ahead of 2017, with the level of business sentiment having risen by a staggering 11% during the last financial quarter. Such confidence is sure to be alluring to aspiring entrepreneurs, many of whom may be tempted to launch their own ventures as a result.

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10 Keys To Open Leadership While Maintaining Control

Startup Professionals Musings

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back.