Fri.Aug 19, 2016

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How to Effectively Use WordPress as Your CMS

Brandanew

In our last post , we talked about what tools and infrastructure you need to develop a remarkable blog. And as a follow-up in today’s post, we’ll be sharing how to effectively use WordPress as your CMS (Content management system). This post comes to us via guest blogger and tech-guru, Shahid Mansuri. Shahid has some really mean tips for taking your blogging game up several notches.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

It seems all technology is getting smaller and more efficient. It’s certainly true for computers, as smartphones are progressively overtaking their larger counterparts. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 billion smartphone users in 2012. This number increased by 27.1% in 2013 to 1.43 billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone.

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7 Startup Pitfalls Can Kill Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. Unfortunately, many passionate entrepreneurs read this initial surge as success, and charge ahead with more of the same passion, leading to a series of potential pitfalls that can quickly jeopardize the health of the entire business.

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Got Your CDL And An Entrepreneurial Spirit? Tips for Starting Your Own Trucking Line

YoungUpstarts

Once you have your CDL and a bit of experience under your belt, you might be interested in starting your own trucking line. When working for someone else it might seem a lot less complicated than it really is, but with time you will begin to learn how trucking companies work and one day you will come up with an innovative idea that just might revolutionize the industry.

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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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Communist and cultural effects on tech communities

The Next Web

This is my second visit to Tirana for the OSCAL conference, an annual celebration of open source technology in Albania’s capital. Aside from excellent content, the conference stands out for a couple of reasons. Most attendees and organizers are under 30, and the gender divide is pretty much an even split. Anyone who attends tech-related events in other countries know that this is (sadly) unusual, and I was interested in digging beneath the surface to find out more.

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How to Start a Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Business—and Get it Right

Up and Running

You’ve figured out the products you want to sell. You’ve sourced an order from your manufacturer or distributor, and had it shipped to your house. You’ve even gone through the tedious work of inspecting each package, including the proper labeling, and making sure that Amazon has properly logged them into their systems. Great! You’ve got an FBA business.

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The Video Game Life

Mike Michalowicz

If you win a level in your favorite video game, the reward is the next, harder level. In life, you are winning levels when you get bigger challenges. Your job is to beat that next level. And the next one. And the next one too.

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5 Ways To Deal With Difficult Customers (And Come Out On Top)

YFS Magazine

You are never going to please everyone all of the time. If you're involved in selling any kind of product or service, you already know that.

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Wind Up Your Productivity and Creativity by Winding Down

crowdSPRING Blog

In today’s world, a huge premium is put on staying busy. How many hours are you working? How much are you getting done during those hours? What are you doing that’s productive when you’re not working? These questions aren’t necessarily bad. You want to make sure you’re making progress towards goals. But that mad sprint is a double edged sword.

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5 Brilliant Reasons You Should Consider Relocating Your Business

YFS Magazine

When done for the right reasons, relocation can be the best thing to happen to your business.

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6 Tools We Use at Typeform to Amplify Our Marketing Productivity

Duct Tape Marketing

6 Tools We Use at Typeform to Amplify Our Marketing Productivity written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Unsplash. Working in marketing can be very demanding. KPIs, meetings, brainstorming sessions, monthly revenue, never-ending checklists… the list goes on. Luckily, we live in a time where productivity hacks are easy to find.

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3 Ways To Ensure Your Startup Has A Top-Notch Team

YoungUpstarts

by Shawn Overcast , managing director at gothamCulture. You have a million things to consider when investing your startup’s money. Developing your product is just the beginning. Then come the marketing, sales, and accounting considerations. But throughout all this, you can’t overlook the single most important financial consideration: your team. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell.

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Extra Sensory Production

Reid Hoffman

As Joshua Cooper Ramo suggests in his important new book, The Seventh Sense, massively scaled, always-on connection changes the nature of objects and institutions. A heart-rate monitor that shares information with a million other heart-rate monitors functions differently than one that operates in standalone fashion. The same is true for automobiles, spare bedrooms, and the individuals who make up a TV audience or a country.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

I just finished reading J.D. Vance’s excellent book Hillbilly Elegy , and had that funny feeling when you find the story arc of someone else’s life eerily paralleling yours. Vance’s book and the story of my own life suggest that there is an archetypal journey (a pattern of human nature) that describes the flight from a dysfunctional family and the escape from the constraints of cluster, class and culture.

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How To Publish More Content Faster With A Content Creation Process (And Limited Resources)

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Publish More Content Faster With A Content Creation Process (And Limited Resources) written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That back burner of yours has a lot on it, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s easy to let creating content for your small business fizzle out at the tail end of your to-do list. But what if there was an easier way to not only publish more content but do it faster and with next to no resources ?

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

I just finished reading J.D. Vance’s excellent book Hillbilly Elegy , and had that funny feeling when you find the story arc of someone else’s life eerily paralleling yours. Vance’s book and the story of my own life suggest that there is an archetypal journey (a pattern of human nature) that describes the flight from a dysfunctional family and the escape from the constraints of cluster, class and culture.

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