Fri.Nov 10, 2017

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10 Ways To Promote Your Small Business For Free

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. There are plenty of ways to promote your small business for free. The tactics listed here are tried and true winners. They’re proven to work by tens of thousands of small businesses. Oh yeah – and they’re all free. 1. Partner with a company that complements your products or services.

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6 Ways Of Thinking To Put Your Innovation Into Orbit

Startup Professionals Musings

Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Historic changes and great successes don’t come from linear thinking.

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20 Reasons Why You Need a Business Plan

Growthink Blog

Below are our top 20 reasons why you need a business plan. Reference our proven business plan template to most quickly and easily complete your plan. 1. To prove that you’re serious about your business. A formal business plan is necessary to show all interested parties -- employees, investors, partners and yourself -- that you are committed to building the business. 2.

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Small Business Guide To Enhanced Retirement Savings?

YFS Magazine

This is an incredible strategy to boost retirement savings. Pick the right guide, and build a strong financial foundation for your retirement goals.

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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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Twitter Link Roundup #314 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

“Hurry slowly” is rooted in an old Latin phrase : “Festina Lente,” or “Make haste slowly,” or “more haste, less speed.”. What does that mean? Erasmus explains , Things that ripen prematurely are wont suddenly to go limp. What grows slowly and steadily can endure. Many great and enduring thinkers throughout history have concluded that making great strides in progress, working hard, and striving for greatness is important.

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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Two Local Veterans

Austin Startup

Veteran’s Day Spotlight: Serving in the Army Prepared Joshua Lawton & Michael Dougherty to Become Entrepreneurs by Faith Vera at Sputnik ATX Accelerator Joshua Lawton & Michael Dougherty , veterans and co-founders of Health Hat, are working together to bridge the gap between healthcare and business. Both previous Army medics and long-time friends sat down with Sputnik ATX to talk about their experience as veterans and entrepreneurs.

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Your Mobile Office: An Enhanced Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The modernity in professionalism came with the invention of the computer, which is a culmination of office software that gives access to nearly all office equipment. It is a library, has stationery, writing pad, storage and much more. For flexibility, your laptop also allows you to work anywhere anytime. With our intellectual limitations, we tend to think-as-we-go.

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The Sideways Path to Scale — with Diane Greene of VMware and Google

Reid Hoffman

Some entrepreneurs start their journey with a detailed plan that they follow to the letter. Jeff Bezos, for example, always had a plan for how Amazon would leverage the infinite shelf space of the internet to become the “everything store.” Or consider that in 1980, when Studs Terkel asked a young bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger what he planned to do in his career, the young Austrian immigrant replied that he planned to leverage his bodybuilding success to become an actor and then go into

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The Trump Communication Lesson: Delivery Is Everything

YoungUpstarts

by Dana Brownlee, President of Professionalism Matters, Inc. As a corporate trainer who teaches topics ranging from communication to leadership skills, it always amazes me that so many of the principles boil down to mantras our moms told us when we were 5. In this case watching the Trump/Military family condolence call melee unravel before my eyes, I couldn’t help but hope the President learned a valuable communication lesson amidst the unfortunate drama – “It’s not what you say, but how you s