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Real Estate Agents: Considerations When Choosing Mobile Apps like SetSchedule

YoungUpstarts

Real estate agents are competitive and smart in looking for new ways to land the next sale. They are active in their community, and they often use the best marketing techniques in making sure that they remain relevant in the industry. The rise of new technology has helped real estate agents rely on better and more innovative solutions like SetSchedule to solve their productivity problems.

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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

A huge congratulations to the entire Upwork team on a successful IPO! This exciting milestone for the freelance economy cements Upwork’s place as the dominant marketplace in the industry. I was fortunate enough to be on the founding team of oDesk (now Upwork). When I joined, it was just 4 of us hacking away on crude systems with almost no budget. I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank.

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Is freelance the future of work?

Transformify

So, what does freelance mean? Put simply, it is freelance jobs. Meaning people working not for a company but working for themselves. They find ordering customers, equip a working space, do some work and get paid. '' Freelancer'' as a term was used for the first time in Walter Scott`s Ivanhoe novel. The famous Swedish writer used ''freelancer'' to define a soldier of fortune.

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Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Pam Didner. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with Pam Didner. After almost 20 years in corporate America, where Didner held a variety of senior leadership positions in departments as varied as finance and accounting, supply-chain management, and global marketing strategy, she decided to strike out on her own.

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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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5 Ways To Build Your Brand Organically

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Stimpson, international speaker and CEO of Strive & Grind. To grow your brand organically, you have to literally plant your seeds, nurture them, and watch the seeds grow. Your goal should be to create something that people are loyal to. However, many entrepreneurs struggle to have customers buy over and over again. Why? It’s because they aren’t building a brand.

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U.S. Army Futures Command Center Seeks to Collaborate with Austin Startups

SiliconHills

The U.S. Army is creating augmented reality sunglasses with night vision, GPS and computer capabilities for soldiers, said Gen. John M. Murray, head of the U.S. Army Futures Command Center, based in Austin. It’s on the path in the next couple of years to put the capability of night vision goggles into a pair of […]. The post U.S. Army Futures Command Center Seeks to Collaborate with Austin Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Navigation optimization: stop selling yourself short! Interview with Brian Massey

ConversionXL

Stop selling yourself short, optimize your navigation menu the right way! Brian Massey, the Conversion Scientist, has been experimenting with optimizing the main navigation of websites and has found out that most people are doing it wrong. Sites that let the information architecture drive the main nav are selling themselves short. In this episode of The Pe:p Show, I ask Brian why and how menu navigation affects your entire site and what you can do to improve your navbar’s conversion rate.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Fix-n-Flip Real Estate Company

Up and Running

Flipping homes makes for good reality TV, but it can also make for good business. What they don’t usually show on screen on shows like Flip or Flop is that writing a business plan is a must. If you’re thinking about starting a business that buys up homes, fixes them up and then re-sells them at a profit, the first step is to write a business plan. Writing a business plan for a real estate company will help you pinpoint your goals and create a living roadmap—a tool for building your business.

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How We Wrote Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman

Many people often ask, “How did you write this book?” When a simple answer makes the most sense, we usually say, “With a lot of hard work.” But for those who are curious about how Blitzscaling came to be, I thought I’d ask my co-author Chris Yeh to tell the story. The following is a guest post from Chris Yeh, the co-author of Blitzscaling (available everywhere next week on October 9) and The Alliance.

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Transcript of Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other 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: Marketing has never needed sales more and frankly, sales people have never needed marketing more than they do today.

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How We Wrote Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman

I asked my co-author Chris Yeh to tell the story of how our book Blitzscaling came to be. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

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What to Do About Bad Government

Growthink Blog

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How We Wrote Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman

I asked my co-author Chris Yeh to tell the story of how our book Blitzscaling came to be. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

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Upcoming NYC family office conferences: Real estate and Blockchain

David Teten

I hope you can join us at some of DC Finance’s upcoming Family Office conferences in NYC. If you use registration code 207 , it will facilitate their tracking. (I have no financial interest in DC Finance or any of their conferences, but I will be speaking at some of their events.). The New York Family Office Real Estate Investment Conference , October 23rd, at Shearman & Sterling LLP, NYC.

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Top Tips For Starting an eCommerce Business

YoungUpstarts

More and more businesses are entering the business world every single year than there ever has been before. One of the fastest growing industries, as a result, is eCommerce, which has capitalized on the internet and social media to grow start-ups at an incredibly fast rate. Still, this is no guarantee of success. While there are many successful eCommerce businesses out there, there are many more who never make it past the first few months.

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