crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

Look around your office. Are you seeing signs of a toxic work environment? Are your employees tired? Discouraged? Burnt out ? If you’re seeing these symptoms in more than one or two employees there’s a strong chance that a toxic culture may have crept into your workplace. That’s a problem for your business and your employees. Unhappy workers are less productive , make more mistakes , and are more likely to seek employment elsewhere.

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deal architect

AUGUST 24, 2017

Salesforce has the honor of becoming “the first enterprise cloud software company to break the $10 billion revenue run rate" Amazingly, just a short 8 years ago I was blogging about its “second billion”. They have gone from strength to.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

Look around your office. Are you seeing signs of a toxic work environment? Are your employees tired? Discouraged? Burnt out ? If you’re seeing these symptoms in more than one or two employees there’s a strong chance that a toxic culture may have crept into your workplace. That’s a problem for your business and your employees. Unhappy workers are less productive , make more mistakes , and are more likely to seek employment elsewhere.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2017

Transcript of How to Get the Right Mindset for Prospecting and Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Everyone is a salesperson. I don’t care what business you’re in, what your role is, what your title is, particularly if you own a business, you have to get good at selling.

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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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deal architect

AUGUST 24, 2017

I feel the excitement and the nervousness of a freshman about to go to college and a rookie about to go to training camp. I am going to my first ever SuccessConnect next week! One of the most popular strategies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

by Brian Engard. Word-of-mouth marketing remains one of the most effective tools at a company’s disposal; 74 percent of consumers identify word of mouth as one of their top points of influence. Rather than hoping word-of-mouth marketing occurs organically, many companies are taking matters into their own hands by creating brand ambassador programs. A brand ambassador program takes advantage of the passion of your most enthusiastic fans.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Before you start a business, you will have drawn up a business plan that you will present to potential investors to bring them onboard. Still, your business plan will be one of the thousands of its kind that your peers will draft and present to this small group of investors every day. The numbers are bleak for start-up success. Only 1 in every 10 will survive the first year of operation due to various reasons.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 24, 2017

I don't think there's ever a time when I feel more like I'm raining on parades as when founders tell me how interested other VC firms are in investing. I've seen it time and time again where founders, understandably apprehensive about fundraising, read too much into their engagement with investors--especially non-partners at firms. The founders will say things like the following--and then comes my splash of cold water, which is honest, but also makes me feel like the bad guy, or not enthusiastic

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Can you believe smartphones have only really been around for a little more than a decade? The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and is what really put the smart in smartphone. Of course, there was the Blackberry line of phones before that which were impressive at the time, but they had nowhere near the functionality of the phones that came later. Most people have been attached to their smartphone for at least five years.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2017

If you don’t have a strong and supportive community, start building one today. You don't have to go at entrepreneurship alone.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

Close. Let me illustrate this insight with a personal story. As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24-hour environment of hotel front desk operations.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2017

Innovation is a widely used term, and as with many other words, its meaning keeps evolving. Lately it has become more of a proxy for developing a new high-tech thing. But what is innovation really for? Early Influences. After 30+ years of a successful business career, I founded The House of Purpose to help develop the human side at work, what most people call “soft” skills; we are kind of anti-tech.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 24, 2017

For leaders of private, closely held companies, selling the company is an important and critical event in their lives. There are several important considerations in managing the sales process to avoid delays and failure to close, all centered around preparation.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2017

A career in accounting provides plenty of opportunity for professional growth, and many CPAs go on to open their own accounting firms. While starting your own firm can be incredibly rewarding, building any type of business comes with its fair share of challenges. Many factors play into the success of a small business startup , and you must be prepared to invest a great deal of time and money.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 24, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News The technology industry has a problem. Its workforce isn’t diverse enough. That means not enough women and not enough people of color, but it also means not enough people of varying ages, faith, sexual orientation, disabled, military veterans and other differentiators. Why is that important? Because studies […].

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2017

If you’re looking to create a website (and who can honestly get by without one these days) you’ll want to weigh up your options and do your research. A major part of this is always going to be about choosing from reputable web hosting services in Australia. Image courtesy of pixabay.com. So, what are 6 things to consider when choosing the right web hosting service for your website?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this clothing project: The challenge of this project was to create an awesome T-shirt design for the 2017 Comic Con in New York City. It’s a huge pop culture event and they were looking for designs that would interest a crowd that is known for their love of video games, comic books, science fiction, superhero movies and more.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

by Stefan Pretty, founder of Subbly. Subscription business models have been around for a pretty long time, but thanks to modern technology, this model has evolved from milk or newspapers delivery to a versatile eCommerce experience. One characteristic remains: the products subscription businesses can provide, ranging from magazine subscriptions to literally anything, can appear on a customer’s doorstep every day, week, month or year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this clothing project: The challenge of this project was to create an awesome T-shirt design for the 2017 Comic Con in New York City. It’s a huge pop culture event and they were looking for designs that would interest a crowd that is known for their love of video games, comic books, science fiction, superhero movies and more.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 24, 2017

My son Kai loves to lead when we’re walking somewhere. For instance, we’ll be heading down the aisle in a grocery store and he just happily takes the lead, not realizing he has zero idea where we’re going. “Uh, Kai.” I’ll say. He’ll turn, see me a little ways back, “Yeah, Daddy?” “Where are you going?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this clothing project: The challenge of this project was to create an awesome T-shirt design for the 2017 Comic Con in New York City. It’s a huge pop culture event and they were looking for designs that would interest a crowd that is known for their love of video games, comic books, science fiction, superhero movies and more.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

“The only unforgivable sin in business is to run out of cash” [so said Harold Geneen], yet startup CEOs “always act on leading indicators of good news, and lagging indicators of bad news” [Andy Grove via Ben Horowitz]… because it …

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2017

7 Tips for Finding Blog Ideas That Have Not Been Created Online written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Have you developed the perfect business blog, but you are still struggling to find new content? I’ve been there, and it’s frustrating…. You want to deliver creative content that will give your blog the “wow” factor, but no topic seems to fit the bill.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2017

How to Get the Right Mindset for Prospecting and Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Marylou Tyler. Podcast Transcript. Inbound, inbound, inbound – that’s marketing rally cry for that last few years. But a funny thing happened on the way to all this inbound marketing activity – outbound marketing – done right, has never been more effective.

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