ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Cold emails are unsolicited emails sent to previously uncontacted recipients. The term has a bad reputation. To many, cold emails are synonymous with spam and a nuisance—one reason why U.S. workers spend 3.2 hours checking their work email each day. Why would anyone want to use cold email? Because, when done well, it can work. Cold email is not a replacement for inbound methods but a supplement—a way to drive near-term growth while inbound campaigns gain traction.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2019

Raise your hand if you love payroll! Oh, wait, nobody raised their hands… Payroll is one of those necessary yet not-so-fun parts of owning a business. While some may like processing payroll, others would rather attend a colonoscopy. If you’re one of the latter variety, this article is for you. We’ll give you four basic payroll tips to make this task a piece of cake. 1.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Scroll through to find some local Austin favorites (all promo codes are linked to the title name)! So I have to start off by saying I joined up for majority of these programs because I thought it’d be a good idea to get free food, clothes, workouts etc from these new companies. I figured I could just cancel after the first free month. Well, you guessed it.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 5, 2019

Radio “just ain’t” what it used to be. In the olden days, you’d turn the dial, try to avoid the whistles and pops, then land on a station that plays Hotel California every half an hour. Today, you can build your own music playlists, and you can also line up a stream of talk-radio-style podcasts […]. The post Fifteen Podcasts You Must Listen to in 2019 appeared first on ReadWrite.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Boost Biomes CEO and co-founder Jamie Bacher The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2019

In today’s super competitive recruiting and hiring environment, retaining your current employees is crucial to business success. Low turnover of staff is good for your company’s bottom line and allows you to build a firm foundation for the future. Many employers believe that paying employees more is the key to retaining them, but this is not always the case.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2019

The United States has become the start-up nation. There continue to be millions of Americans coming up with new, novel ideas for businesses and applying all that they’ve learned in school and on the job to trying their luck at the big time. The initial and most important step in kicking off a startup is to assess the need which your company is intended to address and to dedicate yourself and your team to solving that problem.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2019

As part of the Sphero RVR Kickstarter campaign, Amy and I have decided to give away up to 200 RVRs as part of a new tier called the 2 RVRs for you + 1 for a Teacher tier. If you buy this tier, you get two RVRs. Then, you get to designate a teacher – any teacher – who you’d like to give a third RVR to. Our foundation (the Anchor Point Foundation ) will be underwriting this.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2019

The best way to keep tabs on your work force and manage their movements is with work fore management tools – here are the best software programs for businesses. As an entrepreneur, you face a lot of challenges on a daily basis. From making sure you’re hitting your sales goals to staying on top of your staff, it often feels like you’re working several full-time jobs at once.

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Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

Reading Time: 7 minutes. This post also appears on NextView’s blog. I’ve been looking thru S-1s for many years, out of intellectual curiosity to better understand how remarkable businesses work. This includes blockbusters like Alibaba ( in three parts ) and Facebook but also the likes of Square , Dropbox , Twitter , Blue Apron and going many years back Kayak and Groupon.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 5, 2019

Austin is the new headquarters of Khoros, the combined company of Spredfast and Lithium. Khoros announced the rebranding on Tuesday. The combined company resulted from Lithium’s merger with Spredfast last year. In September, when the two companies announced their merger, they reported the headquarters would be in San Francisco. Now, under the rebranding, the headquarters […].

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 5, 2019

As we leave in our cars to go to work on a Monday morning, some would rather not to have to set out on a cold morning so early and some would rather not negotiate the long or difficult commute. We then take our places at work and spend the day on other people’s agenda or we spend our time making money for someone else. Many then think that a solution would be to have their own business instead, for some this is simply a dream and it remains that way for reasons only known to them but for others,

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SiliconHills

MARCH 5, 2019

Ryan Merket, a two-time founder, has also worked for Facebook, Reddit and Amazon. And now he’s becoming a venture capitalist and joining Firebrand Ventures as a partner and opening its second office in Austin. Firebrand’s focus is investing in seed stage companies in Austin and the Midwest. Firebrand, which was founded by John Fein in […]. The post VC Firm Firebrand Ventures Opens Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Can you achieve growth by copying your competitors? No, this is not the right growth mindset. In this episode, Peep breaks down why simply copying your competitors will not lead to the growth results you are expecting. [This post contains video, click to play]. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel. The post STOP blindly copying competitors! They are just as clueless appeared first on CXL.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 5, 2019

For many people across the country, their workplace can seem far from relaxed and organized, and in fact may be incredibly high-stress. According to statistics from The American Institute of Stress workplace stress amounts to 46% of a person’s overall causes of stress, followed by “people issues”. What this means is that there is a real need to get a handle on stress in the workplace so that you can feel more focused, relaxed, and in turn perform more efficiently and productively.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

You’re creative. And you love to craft! Not to mention, you’ve gotten pretty darn good at it. Or, you have an amazing eye for vintage finds but your closets are overflowing. “You should start an Etsy shop!” your friends say. And, you’ve secretly shared that very same thought. Etsy is a booming online marketplace full of amazing hand-made items and vintage goods.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 5, 2019

In an effort to pull back the proverbial curtain on what it takes to achieve goals, a variety of high-achievers and “serial doers" share their advice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

Why Storytelling Can Help Your Business’ Bottom Line written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you’re thinking about how to promote your business, it can be tempting to focus solely on your products and services. After all, when you boil any business down to its most essential element it is about getting consumers to purchase the product or service that’s being offered.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 5, 2019

Eric Tyson, MBA, author of Small Business Taxes for Dummies®, Second Edition, shares some great tax breaks you may not be using to your advantage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

Marrying Content with the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Arnie Kuenn. Podcast Transcript. On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. Prior to founding the digital marketing agency Vertical Measures in 2006, Kuenn founded several other businesses, including MediaChoice, an internet startup whose clients included the major television networks, plus

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in Entertainment and Content , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Sunday, March 10, Stroly empowers graphic maps by taking them online.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

Transcript of Marrying Content with the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Community isn’t a buzzword. My three rules for building & growing it as a founder. I have a no name tags rule with events since they remind me of bad networking events, but I’d make an exception for these fun ones. Photo Credit: Unsplash. Community is something that we have been talking about ever since the start of Reset. Ever since we talked to 50 remote workers who talked about the isolating effects of working from home.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 5, 2019

…that sounds bad. Let me explain :). Books like Ray Dalio’s Principles focus on helping people learn their strengths and weaknesses, helps them put together a vision for what they want to accomplish, and shows how to create plans to accomplish those goals. These are amazing books and are loaded with 5-star reviews. Only, they tend to be very boring to me.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2019

Magento is a powerful tool that can help you build startups in both B2C and B2B eCommerce. Working from this central hub, you can manage all aspects of your website development and simplify sales for easy growth. Highly customizable, the Magento platform can be used to create a site that meets your distinct specifications. Get the features and functionality you need in one neat package by working with Magento for your startup.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 5, 2019

Kylie Jenner was pronounced by Forbes as the “ youngest self-made billionaire ever ” and the internet started debating what exactly self-made means. Hold aside that the Forbes lists are notoriously, well, estimates – I mean, this is the one that Trump was obsessed about ranking on, and would make up all sorts of numbers to successfully to do so.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2019

Young entrepreneurs today need more than just an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed in business. Certain talents such as sales skills, empathy, financial management, and leadership are necessary to build your own business successfully. The ability to write with clarity, purpose, and impact is also another vital necessity. Here are some of the top reasons why business writing is an essential skill for young entrepreneurs. 1.

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