Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2017

What Your Customers Really Need Is…More Site Testing? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Why do your customers buy? What are they looking for? Why do they convert on your site? Ask most marketers or business owners these questions and you’ll usually get a lot of very specific answers. “We have the best prices”…“Our product has more features than the competition”…“Our customer service is incredible”… Now, all of these answers are great, but most of the

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deal architect

JUNE 15, 2017

As I pointed out in my book, Silicon Collar, for years now analysts like Gartner and academics at places like Oxford U have been predicting doom and gloom in massive job loss from machines. Even years after their predictions, there.

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Rembrandt Communications

JUNE 15, 2017

Christmas starts in October. Are you ready for holiday marketing? It’s that time of year when you prepare for graduations, Father’s Day and upcoming vacations. But there is something else you need to think about now… Christmas. That’s right. Summer is not even officially here yet, but the winter holiday sales season starts in just […]. The post Summer is Not Here Yet, But Holiday Marketing Time Is!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2017

by Bob Adams, serial entrepreneur and founder of BusinessTown.com. Many people toy with the idea of starting a business but hesitate to actually take the plunge and go out on their own. There are many reasons that people are held back from starting their own business. One of the most common reasons that keeps people from starting a business is that they don’t feel comfortable about starting a business in a field in which they don’t have related experience.

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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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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2017

There’s an iconic line in the 1987 movie Wall Street when Michael Douglas’ character, Gordon Gekko, declares to a crowd of hundreds: “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.” The crowd eats it up, cheering and giving him a standing ovation. That may have been well and good in the 1980s (at least before the ‘87 crash), but if he made the same statement today, he’d be run out of town.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2017

by Ernie Rossi, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo. Fraud and identity theft is a constant concern for both individuals and businesses. Hackers and thieves use various types of schemes to con millions of people and businesses each year. Here are some practical tips to help keep business owners and individuals alert, prepared and guarded against fraud: Fraud prevention for business. 1.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2017

There’s a romance around the idea of a small startup forming in a garage, mom’s basement, or a dorm room. It’s quaint and flexible – it’s just you, maybe a few friends, and an idea. Pure bootstraps. This is (and in some ways still) fine and all when you’re toying with the idea of going full-time but it eventually gets in your way. Working out of the garage (and the others) doesn’t give clients, investors, and other business-types a good impression.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 15, 2017

Meetings can feel like a waste of time, and some are. Here’s when you do need to call a meeting — and when you’re better off without it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2017

by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker. Excel has its many uses and has been the go-to format for logging data for many years. However, just because something is used universally does not make it the best solution. This is especially the case when it comes to analytics. These days, there are far superior choices for recording and interpreting big data.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

Taking in angel or venture money requires a setting of an entrepreneur’s expectations that may come as a shock at least at first. From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2017

My cell phone experience is so f **g miserable. As I drove home last night and tried to have a conversation, I had five drops during a 30-minute drive from downtown Boulder to my house on the edge of Boulder and Longmont. When I drive into my office this morning, on exactly the same route, I expect I’ll have five drops at exactly the same spots.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 15, 2017

If I had to use one word to tie together this technology revolution we are living through it would be this: Mobility. Once we think about all the tools arriving and what they allows us to do, much of it revolves around geo graphic independence and mobility. Smart phones – mobile computing in all it’s. Continue reading → The post The one word that ties this revolution all together appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2017

I didn't grow up in a neighborhood where gunshots were a thing--and I know I am incredibly lucky for that. That's why when I pulled up to the corner of Atlantic and Fourth by the Barclay's Center yesterday at a couple of minutes after 2pm, the sound of gunfire was pretty startling, and it's not something I can easily shake. Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop-pop-pop!

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Tim Keane

JUNE 15, 2017

The winner of the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan competition this year is Northern Star Fire, led by Eau Claire fire captain Jeff Dykes. It's a great story. With perhaps a moral for investors and maybe entrepreneurs. Captain Dykes designed an.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 15, 2017

Procore Technologies, which makes construction management software, is hosting a Summer Solstice Kick-Off party next Thursday. And you’re invited. The event takes place at Procore’s Austin office at 221 W. 6th Street on the 18th floor starting at 5:30 p.m. It features light dinner and drinks, but you must RSVP. “It’s not often that we […] The post Procore Technologies Hosts Summer Solstice Kick-Off Party for Austin Tech Community appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2017

Is Growth Hacking for You? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sean Ellis. Podcast Transcript. What do you think of when you hear the phrase “growth hacking?” Few trendy terms have been more misused and abused by ‘marketers is what I think. I wrote this piece about growth hacking if you want my take.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 15, 2017

Since launching in 2012, Eagle Eye Networks has become the largest cloud-based video surveillance provider in North America. It’s also the largest cloud-based video surveillance provider in Asia. And now, it’s set its sights on becoming the largest cloud-based video surveillance provider in Europe. On Thursday, Eagle Eye Networks announced the acquisition of Panasonic Cloud […] The post Eagle Eye Networks Buys Panasonic Cloud Management Service and Expands into the European Market appeared

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 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 a Hawaiian hippie T-shirt design. They were encouraged to get creative and make it look like a a “real” university logo, but one with a hippie theme.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2017

big stock image Leaders have a great opportunity in their hands when problems or challenges come up. How can you as a leader turn around your response to ‘immediately fix’ and use this chance as a growth avenue for your people? One day, I remember feeling mentally exhausted towards the end of the day and someone came into my office. I don’t remember they question they ask, I don’t even remember the person, but I do remember not having an answer.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 15, 2017

I love the concept of Servant Leadership. From the source , the definition is: While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2017

We all need a creative project to work on from time to time, especially if your living the startup life. Mentors usually tell us to stay focused on the on our product road maps and don’t stray from the path. But if you have been heads down working on your venture for a bit then you may need to lift your head up and start working on a creative side project too.

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Spencer Fry

JUNE 15, 2017

How hard should an entrepreneur work? Recently, I saw DHH battling venture capitalists on this hot topic (Bijan Sabet chimed in with my favorite take on it ) and I wanted to share my take on working hard as an entrepreneur and whether I think that that’s the only way to be successful. I’ve met hundreds of entrepreneurs, and of those who are most successful, they all have one thing in common: hard work.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 15, 2017

If you’re not following form design best practices, you might be leaving a significant amount of money on the table. While forms aren’t the sexiest part of conversion optimization , they tend to be the closest to the money, the macro-conversions. Spending a little time optimizing forms can be some of the most important optimization work you can do. Of course, best practices don’t work the same on all sites.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2017

Getting dressed can be a pain if your closet looks like a war zone. With stacks of shirts piled high, loose hangers poking out in between a mess of clothes, and shoes boxes taking up way too much space, putting together an outfit becomes an annoyance and a waste of time. As anyone in the startup world knows, time is a precious commodity. Style should be your daily dose of self-expression, not a morning chore.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2017

Last week RideAustin’s two most senior executives — CEO Andy Tryba and COO Marisa Goldenberg —  published a Medium piece detailing “what they learned” during the first week following Uber’s and Lyft’s return to the Austin market, given that their ride volume immediately fell by 55 percent. Yesterday Tryba stated that RideAustin’s trip volume declined an additional 16 percent the subsequent week, and in response RideAustin would be immediately lowering its (already-low) rates to price-match Uber

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