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9 Lessons Learned from Running a CRO Agency

ConversionXL

Run an agency? Offer conversion optimization services? Then you know it can be hard. I’ve been running an optimization agency for 6 years now. Here are my top lessons I’ve learned along the way. 1. Build a name, build an audience. It’s so much easier to run an agency business if you have a personal brand name and an audience. Think about it: you’re in the business of expertise.

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9 Online Funding And Financing Resources For Struggling SMEs

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are just beginning your entrepreneurial journey or you have trod the business ownership path for years, you should know the golden rule: Your business needs money. To buy and maintain equipment and supplies, to support your staff, to build your products, and to keep your dreams alive, you desperately need cold hard cash. Unfortunately, cash isn’t always that easy to get, especially if your business is struggling to survive.

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Just Finish It

Feld Thoughts

An exec at a company I’m an investor in sent this to me this morning. Does this feel like your life at your company? I’m an enormous fan of Eric Ries and The Lean Startup. His, and Steve Blank’s, thinking and writing changed how we approach startups. However, the bright shiny object syndrome is alive and well in StartupLand and, when conflated with MVPs and fail fast, often results in misery.

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Bracing For Impact – 4 Strategies For Leveraging The Next Global Disruption

YoungUpstarts

by Shane Cragun and Kate Sweetman, coauthors of “ Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption “ We suggest the only constant going forward is change. We’re talking massive, disruptive, and tumultuous change. It is beginning to look like radical change will be THE absolute going forward in the 21st century. Disruption is everywhere.

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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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Announcing our next meetup: Data-Driven Marketplaces, San Francisco, May 16

Version One Ventures

Back in October, we hosted our first marketplace-themed meetup on the topic of The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle. More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended and made it a great evening. In case you missed it, you can read some of the key takeaways from the evening’s talks, including a fireside chat with Boris and Uber’s Andrew Chen; growing a B2B marketplace with Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich; Slava Rubin describing how Indiegogo grew its business ; and Anthony Ma

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eCommerce Endeavours – How Web Scraping Can Help You Expand Your Online Store

YoungUpstarts

If you have a brick-and-mortar store, your competition is pretty limited to the other stores in your area. If you have an online store however, your competition is pretty much anyone in the world that sells the same product as you. It can be difficult, time consuming and often just impossible to keep track of all of your competitors in an online space and find a way to make sure you stand out as one among thousands.

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Why Adding A ‘Live Chat’ To My Website Turned Into The Best Business Decision I Made In The Last 12 Months

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In the last few years, I finally reached a point in my business where I could begin testing new tools that in the past I ignored because I lacked the capacity to make them work. I’m sure you resonate with me when I tell you that I frequently get overwhelmed. The post Why Adding A ‘Live Chat’ To My Website Turned Into The Best Business Decision I Made In The Last 12 Months appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Features vs. Benefits: What Do B2B Customers Care About Most?

YFS Magazine

Market your product in a way that a B2B customer not only considers it the only logical choice, but also sticks to their decision in the future.

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The REAL Struggles of Young Adults Post-College: From The Subject Experts Themselves

Austin Startup

Hey Everyone! Earlier in the week I posed a question via my social media accounts and the question was, “What are some things you think young adults struggle with when looking for a job after college?” I could have went straight to the academic advisers to get well calculated data and analytical answers (which I did) but I decided who better to tell the story and give the advice but the subject matter experts themselves.

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CTAN Members Invest $14.2 Million in 43 Companies in 2016

SiliconHills

The Central Texas Angel Network reported its members invested $14.2 million into 43 companies in 2016. CTAN members made 15 new investments and 28 follow on investments into existing portfolio companies. That compares to $13.3 million invested in 43 companies in 2015. The nonprofit organization also saw a 40 percent increase in 2016 in the […] The post CTAN Members Invest $14.2 Million in 43 Companies in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Capital Factory Brings the NewCo Festival Back to Austin this June

Austin Startup

With so many festivals and conferences in Austin, it can be hard to get them all straight. But NewCo Austin isn’t your average festival or conference. This event has the focus of a business conference and the feel of a music festival, which makes it the ideal place to connect businesses on a mission to the people who care. NewCo Austin Host Companies, or HostCo’s, provide the backbone of the festival.

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Austin-based Factom Raises $8 million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

Factom, a blockchain technology company, announced Tuesday that it has closed on $8 million in funding. The Austin-based startup closed its Series A round with additional investment from Peeli Ventures, Harvest Equity and a number of Austin investors. In October, Factom announced it had closed its Series A round with $4.2 million in investment from […] The post Austin-based Factom Raises $8 million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When We Reimagined Our Business

Up and Running

My team and I launched crowdSPRING in early 2008. For the following eight years, despite seeing great growth in our business, we made a mistake many entrepreneurs make: we operated the business as though the competitive, technological, and economic landscape was the same as when we started. We were wrong. Markets and businesses always evolve. Xerox, Polaroid, Blockbuster, and other market leaders lost to smaller, more agile competitors because the market leaders assumed that they would dominate

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CM First Group Raises $1.2 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

CM First Group, a software company, announced it has raised $1.2 million in funding. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds for the expansion of its software tools and services. The Central Texas Angel Network and Lone Rock Technology Group with Capital Factory participating led the investment. CM First appointed Clint Whitaker of CTAN […] The post CM First Group Raises $1.2 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Here One pioneers augmented audio — more to come.

Austin Startup

I received one of the first pair of Here One wireless earbuds that not only play music but have adjustable controls to cancel out or alternatively to boost background noise. Sometimes you want to tune out and sometimes you want to tune in. I think we’ll see more innovation in the “ augmented audio ” space over the next few years and the implications will shake society.

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Please join me at the Central ArtWorks event on May 4th!

Jeff Hilimire

Hi friends, I’m loving being the Board Chair of Central Outreach & Advocacy. It’s such an amazing cause, and their passion for helping Atlanta’s homeless community is truly inspiring. We’re having an art show on May 4th to raise money for the Center, and at the event we showcase art from our guests (Atlanta’s homeless men and women)!

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Why Adding A ‘Live Chat’ To My Website Turned Into The Best Business Decision I Made In The Last 12 Months

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In the last few years, I finally reached a point in my business where I could begin testing new tools that in the past I ignored because I lacked the capacity to make them work. I’m sure you resonate with me when I tell you that I frequently get overwhelmed. The post Why Adding A ‘Live Chat’ To My Website Turned Into The Best Business Decision I Made In The Last 12 Months appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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How to Conduct Quality Link Building

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Conduct Quality Link Building written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. No matter how often Google updates their algorithm in an attempt to devalue backlinks, they still remain essential for a sound SEO strategy. Keep in mind that there are definitely right and wrong ways to go about it. Buying links and getting fake reviews are a thing of the past.

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How To Sell With Webinars

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Thanks to Google, the days of buying traffic that you direct link to affiliate websites is long gone. This spawned into a period of review sites and fake testimonial sites. That worked… for a while. But now in 2011 potential customers are more savvy, skeptical and demanding than ever. The. The post How To Sell With Webinars appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.