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How To Make Money With Survey Websites

YoungUpstarts

Survey websites offer a win-win solution for both business owners and consumers. With these platforms, the former can now conduct market research to improve their companies at a relatively affordable price. Paid survey sites are where they can find honest opinions about their products and services. For the latter, answering online surveys allow them to earn a little extra on the side.

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How to Create an Irresistible Website for Your Restaurant

Up and Running

If you’ve just opened the doors to your restaurant or are looking to reopen sometime soon, it’s going to take some time to attract more customers. You know that your potential customers are at home, hungry, and searching Google for a great place to eat. But how do you reach them? How do you tell them that your restaurant exists and that it’s open and ready for business?

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These Seven Employee Behaviors May Well Predict Your Company’s Odds Of Survival

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “ The old way of working is dead. Its death throes began decades ago, and the COVID shake-up has slammed the lid on the coffin. In a world of flux, we all have to be 24/7 learners, innovators, and collaborators. Yet most companies continue to allow, encourage, or even force workers to keep up their old rugged-individualistic, head-down, fear-driven, Industrial-Revolution-era ways.

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Are You Attracting the Wrong Customers?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Not all business is good business. There are some customers that can be time-consuming and costly to work with. They may be unreasonably demanding, they may fail to pay you on time or they may fail to cooperate with rules and requests that you’ve laid out for them. In other cases, they may simply not be the ideal demographic – you may pride yourself as a specialist, and yet may continuously find yourself attracting clients wanting routine services or general products.

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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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Outsourcing – How External Help Can Grow Your Business And Expand Your Services

YoungUpstarts

In the modern connected world, more and more businesses are outsourcing to help with company growth. Faster networks and a proliferation of mobile devices has made remote working easier than ever, and the demand for freelancers has never been higher. Outsourcing can be the best solution for growing your business and expanding the range of services you offer without incurring a significant increase in overhead.

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Announcing our investment in Patch, a platform for negative emissions

Version One Ventures

Few launches have been as timely. Over the past month, those of us on the west coast have been dealing with forest fires… if anyone ever doubted climate change, let us be the first to tell you that the orange, fiery, smokey skies and the ash raining down from it are all very real. At Version One, we’ve been focused on energy and climate since last year and have ramped up as we welcomed Max to the team in January (some of his writings and our thesis here ).

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How to Figure Out What to Sell on Amazon

The Startup Magazine

Amazon is continuing to be a major force in the retail industry , pushing the industry in new directions and absolutely changing the way people traditionally buy products. One of the most attractive things about Amazon is that anyone can take advantage of the platform and tap into its massive user base. As a result, selling on the platform becomes extremely attractive and has a high likelihood of being lucrative for the seller.

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The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

Below is an article I co-authored with Elizabeth MacBride of Times of Entrepreneurship (it was cross posted there on the ToE site yesterday). It’s a good companion piece to the OpEd we wrote for CNBC earlier this week. As many readers know, I’ve been working on a project highlighting entrepreneurs around the county. It’s been amazing to meet so many interesting grassroots entrepreneurs and hear so many compelling stories.

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Jason Colodne of Colbeck Capital Interviews Energy Ventures Analysis’ Emily Medine

The Startup Magazine

Over the last four years, the coal industry has witnessed an ongoing transformation on a global scale – from decreased demand in the US to growing fuel needs in Asia and rising concerns about climate change. A fuel source once viewed as a symbol of political strength and energy independence now carries a negative connotation as a result of how carbon emissions are impacting the environment.

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Austin-based Decent Raises $10 Million to Bring Affordable Health Insurance to Small Businesses and Individuals Statewide

SiliconHills

While working on a startup in the San Francisco Bay area, Nick Soman realized he was paying more for health insurance every month than rent. And in the Bay area rents are sky-high. “I remember thinking that was brutal,” Soman said. That experience eventually led him to found Decent, which offers affordable health insurance options […]. The post Austin-based Decent Raises $10 Million to Bring Affordable Health Insurance to Small Businesses and Individuals Statewide appeared first on Silicon

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7 Legitimate Ways of Making Money from Home

The Startup Magazine

Many people today are earning money from home. With a flexible schedule, anyone can earn a decent income without the hassle of a commute or traffic. Whether your goal is to earn all your income from home or if you just want to generate a passive income source, or augment your current earnings, there are many ways to do a side hustle. There are many websites, such as Prize Rebel , which offer various ways to earn money online.

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A Look at 2020 Home Services Growth

Duct Tape Marketing

A Look at 2020 Home Services Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Tommy Mellow. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tommy Mellow the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $50M home service business. . Tommy also created The Home Service Expert, the No. 1 learning resource for ambitious home service entrepreneurs, whether they are in plumbing, HVAC or any other home service niche.

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7 tips to design a winning strategy for digital marketing

The Startup Magazine

Want to rate your marketing plan on social media? If you think you are the only one who is stressed out about planning a profitable digital marketing strategy, you are wrong. It’s not as easy as it used to be since social media came along. Analysis fatigue is now a major challenge for advertisers, from finding the best platforms to defining a marketing plan.

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It’s not trendy if it’s appropriating

NZ Entrepreneur

Appropriation of indigenous cultures is not a new issue, but examples of appropriation are increasing at an alarming rate, and the issue needs to be addressed. For example, if you walk down the wine aisle at your local supermarket, you will notice a significant number of M?ori brands. If you examine those wine labels a little closer, you’ll find that only a few are actually associated with a M?

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5 Tips for Starting a Blog

The Startup Magazine

There are so many reasons to consider starting a blog. Perhaps you want to explore your hobby online and share helpful articles to inspire others. You might be looking to create some kind of side hustle you can easily do from home to earn some extra cash on the side. You may want to completely replace your career with blogging. You may even have a traditional business and be looking for new ways to engage with customers and be more present in search engines.

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Entrepreneurs do not easily retire.

Berkonomics

So, you’ve successfully sold your business and have received enough money from the sale to become financially independent, no longer having to work for a living. That is a comfortable place to be, and it is one experienced by more and more people, especially in technology-based businesses. And what’s next? Most successful sales of businesses, again especially in the technology arena, enrich younger entrepreneurs and stock-option holders who are under fifty years of age.

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How has the price of currency fluctuated as a result of COVID-19?

The Startup Magazine

The coronavirus outbreak has had a dramatic impact on the value of international currencies, with this having been exacerbated by the various quantitative easing measures imposed by various governments. Interestingly, this impact has been more pronounced in the emerging markets, which is something of an unusual development during a global pandemic and the beginnings of an international recession.

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Bolster’s Founding Manifesto

OnlyOnce

(This post also appeared on Bolster.com and builds on last week’s post where I introduced my new startup, Bolster). Welcome to Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace. We are creating a platform that is the new way to scale an executive team and board. verb: bolster; 3rd person present: bolsters; past tense: bolstered; past participle: bolstered; gerund or present participle: bolstering support, boost, strengthen, fortify, solidify, reinforce, augment, reinvigorate, enhance, im

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Startup founders must overcome information overload

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Startup founders must overcome information overload appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Bolster’s Founding Manifesto

OnlyOnce

(This post also appeared on Bolster.com and builds on last week’s post where I introduced my new startup, Bolster). Welcome to Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace. We are creating a platform that is the new way to scale an executive team and board. verb: bolster; 3rd person present: bolsters; past tense: bolstered; past participle: bolstered; gerund or present participle: bolstering support, boost, strengthen, fortify, solidify, reinforce, augment, reinvigorate, enhance, im

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Are Grammar Mistakes Costing You Money?

ConversionXL

Most articles will tell you that poor grammar can kill sales. While not as important in blog posts as in sales copy, grammatical errors can dissolve credibility, possibly resulting in fewer sales. But what does the actual data say? On a high level, it seems to make sense. And while spelling mistakes haven’t been heavily researched in relation to revenue, optimization , or growth, there is a small amount of research that suggests spelling mistakes impact credibility in negative ways.

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Divided by Algorithms – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

Regardless of whether you support Daniel Andrews’s lockdown or want to give him the boot and open up, here’s what I know to be true for both parties. They see what they already believe. For some context on this week’s technology essay, please invest four short minutes to watch my latest episode of #SteveFeed on Algorithms , or as I like to call them: Weapons of Math Destruction.