Thu.Aug 27, 2020

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Little Tweaks That Will Catapult Your Online Store To The Next Level

YoungUpstarts

You don’t find many startup ideas as straightforward as an online store. Well, not in theory at least! It follows a pretty basic business model of selling products online for people to order. You stock the products in a warehouse or your garage, then ship them off as the orders come in. If you’re looking to launch a successful startup in 2020, this is probably the best idea you’ll find.

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Product Review: Ubersuggest SEO marketing tool

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to pushing a product, service, or website online, it doesn’t get much more important than SEO marketing. Search engine optimization is the beating heart of any online business , without it, your services are extremely hard to find, sometimes nigh on impossible. Pushing your business up the Google rankings is something that should be looked at early on in the life of any business, and it is something that needs to be continually revisited and updated throughout the lifespan of the c

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A Guide To Remote Work Success

YoungUpstarts

Even before the current pandemic, more and more businesses were shifting towards a remote work system. Yet since the world was turned upside down, this has gone into overdrive. For many who were fortunate enough to still remain employed, they suddenly found themselves working from home. At first, this could have been seen as a dream scenario for those who were tired of the daily commute to the office.

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What’s a “data room” and how do you use it?

Berkonomics

First, what’s a “deal book?”. Maybe you have not heard the term, “deal book.” That’s a comprehensive piece on a company for use by a buyer in determining fit. A “deal room” is a cloud-based or physical space dedicated to storing the massive amounts of data to be used in due diligence by a buyer, lender or by an investor. Your data room and its contents.

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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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The Next Entrepreneurs And Startups

YoungUpstarts

The most successful entrepreneurs have always used the realities of the environment around them as a basis for exploring opportunities and developing new ideas that actually provide value for people and are structured to create profit. Entrepreneurs are currently looking at an environment that is unlike any other seen in the history of commerce, while leaders of businesses and startups have to think on-the-fly to learn what potential customers need most right now.

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Salesforce's acrobatics

deal architect

Jim Cramer at CNBC pointed out the irony that ExxonMobil, a major carbon contributor as an oil and gas company is being replaced by Salesforce in the Dow Jones Industrials Index. Salesforce is a major supporter of the WEF's 1T.org.

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Pondering the Commercial Real Estate Market

Feld Thoughts

Since Covid started, I’ve had many conversations about office space. In April, almost all of our companies were unable to use their office space because of stay at home orders. Today, even though strict stay-at-home orders are no longer in place in most of the country, the vast majority of our companies are still in a primary work-from-home mode.

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How To Choose The Right Help Desk Platform For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

You are starting a new company and know that you need some type of help desk support. Do you hire an onsite team or contract with a remote provider? There are benefits and challenges to either path you choose. Whatever the direction in which you decide to go, you need to decide on a dependable help desk software that can meet your company’s needs.

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Helpful Tips To Becoming Your Own Boss

The Startup Magazine

If you are like many people, you have a dream of one day being your own boss and tossing aside the boring 9-5 job you currently show up for day after day. However, while there are many perks to being one’s own boss, it also takes a tremendous amount of hard work and planning to make it a success. But for those who take the plunge and are successful, most say there is no better way to spend your time.

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How to Go From Startup Founders to a Growing Team

Up and Running

My co-founder Andrew and I built Canny , a SaaS tool to help businesses collect and manage customer feedback and build their product roadmap, from the ground up. Canny is 100% bootstrapped —we haven’t taken any outside funding. We’re profitable, and we just cracked $800K in annual recurring revenue earlier this year. We’re now a team of seven ( and growing ).

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6 Proven Low-Budget Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

Try these proven, low-cost marketing ideas to help your small business grow. A small marketing budget can go a long way.

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What You Need to Know About Business Insurance

The Startup Magazine

Opening your own business is a dream come true. You’re creating a life you want while building your dream, not someone else’s. And while opening your own business demands a concrete plan, along with proper funding, you also need business insurance coverage for your startup’s risk management. Given the abundance of misinformation online, deciding which type of coverage you need can be confusing.

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Do You Rent or Own Your Marketing?

Duct Tape Marketing

Do You Rent or Own Your Marketing? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I would like to discuss a new program at Duct Tape Marketing. Around the beginning of the year, I wrote my predictions for 2020. Now no one could have predicted where we are today.

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How To Advertise Your Business Online Cleverly During COVID-19?

The Startup Magazine

A year on year drop of 94% in airline travelers! A crash of epic proportions with trillions of dollars wiped out! Advertising could not even help in the early days of the largest economic downturn since the great depression. These are some of the sensational headlines used to describe the havoc created by the COVID-19 pandemic to the global economy.

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Pros and Cons of Fever Scanning

Austin Startup

In the age of COVID-19, does it make us safer? With the advent of COVID-19, the topic of fever scanning has exploded on the Internet. It’s a popular topic in the media and vendors are developing new solutions to capitalize on the opportunity. I’m going to explain what temperature scanning is (and isn’t!) and give you a basic understanding of how it works so you can make your own decision about if it’s worth it.

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How To Market Your Startup on a Budget

The Startup Magazine

You’re never going to take your business beyond its startup stage if you don’t make an effort to market it effectively. You need to draw attention to your company and showcase the fact that you are capable of providing a quality level of service, which is why you must actively attempt to optimize your startup marketing and advertising strategy. Don’t have a lot of money at hand to perform this crucial task?

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Startup CEO Second Edition Teaser: Thinking about Your Next Step

OnlyOnce

As part of the new section on Exits in the Second Edition of the book ( order here ), there’s a final chapter around you as CEO and thinking about what you do next. I’ll start this post by saying, while am really happy with where I am now (more to come on that!), I am not happy with the way I handled my own “next steps” after the Return Path exit. I did follow some of my own advice, but not enough of it.

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How To Reopen Your Dental Practice After Covid-19

The Startup Magazine

Dentistry is having a bad time because of COVID-19, but since some places in the world are reopening, dental offices may see a reprieve, but only if they resume operations intelligently. The BBC mentions that there’s no “business as normal” in the UK for reopening dentists. Challenges already face these practices since many weren’t prepared to open when the government announced reopening.

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How To Grow Your Bakery Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Freshness counts in every food business, but especially in bakeries. Items are labor-intensive to produce and must move within a day or two, or they’ll become unsellable. Know how to grow your bakery business to build your customer base and keep them coming back for more. Marketing. Boost your social media presence by including gorgeous photos of your offerings, tips on baking techniques, and highlights of your community involvement.

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Building Ecosystems of Adaptability

Reid Hoffman

This episode of Greymatter features Reid Hoffman in conversation with Peter High, president of business and IT strategy firm Metis Strategy. In the context of the current pandemic and economic crisis, Reid and Peter discuss strategies and insights for entrepreneurs on building, developing and strengthening their ecosystem for support and insight(while offering the same back); the importance of co-design in go-to-market strategy; how blitzscaling applies to large companies; and how the pandemic h

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4 Ways to Grow and Future Proof Your Locksmith Business in 2020

The Startup Magazine

We live in a fast changing environment where businesses are ever evolving. We are now observing a complete shutdown of countless businesses in the United States and different parts of Canada and are observing millions of people going jobless. Amid the havoc, there are thousands of businesses who are yet not giving up and trying hard to survive. They are leveraging different methods to make things work in their favor.

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Product Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide

ConversionXL

According to Amplitude , product analytics “show you who your users are, what they want, and how to keep them.” I remember the first time that a client told me how much analytics had helped their business. They were able to increase their sign-up rate for their product by 22% while reducing their marketing costs. The secret to their success?