Wed.Aug 22, 2018

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How Do You Know Your Employees Are Putting in Their Hours

The Startup Magazine

If you have employees that work from home or from the road, the thought has probably crossed your mind: How can I be sure my people are working and not goofing off while billing my company? This issue is probably most prevalent for those who work with an outside or traveling salesforce or a team of people who work from home. Traveling is part of the job in sales, but how can you be sure they are out there selling?

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Entrepreneur Builds Multimillion Dollar Company after Dropping out of College

Hearpreneur

Technology tycoon Steve Jobs, Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour, media mogul Ted Turner, and business magnate Bill Gates all have something in common aside from their unparalleled success – they lack a college degree. Despite what today’s youth are convinced to believe, college isn’t the only path to success. Steve “The Hurricane ” dropped out of college to build his multimillion-dollar company, Hurricane Marketing Enterprises.

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Paying Attention > Any Business Book

Austin Startup

5 Recently Collected Stories from the Branding Trenches Patterns by my awesome team at In-House Int’l The ability to pick up on detail and nuance is great for building relationships; everyone appreciates being heard. In work relationships, active listening is a trust machine partly because the picking up on detail signals that you care. When it comes to the world at large, the bombardment of stimulus is enough to pull most of us into autopilot mode.

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Small Business PR Help For Free

Rembrandt Communications

Are you overwhelmed with all the publicity data out there? If you want some small business PR help, you are in the right place. I know how it is. You get bombarded with emails and marketing messages about getting your name to the top of the search engines, distributed to hundreds of media sites, and […]. The post Small Business PR Help For Free appeared first on Small business PR and content strategy that boost sales, awareness and credibility fast!

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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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4 Ways Businesses Can Survive Disruptions Beyond Your Control

YoungUpstarts

by Raméz Baassiri , author of “ Interrupted Entrepreneurship: Embracing Change In The Family Business “ Business plans – like all plans – can go awry when events beyond the control of the business owner disrupt the everyday routine. Such disruptions could be because of a dip in the economy, a natural disaster that creates havoc, a shift in the public’s buying habits, or new technology that can do what you do better.

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Small Business PR Help For Free

Rembrandt Communications

Are you overwhelmed with all the publicity data out there? If you want some small business PR help, you are in the right place. I know how it is. You get bombarded with emails and marketing messages about getting your name to the top of the search engines, distributed to hundreds of media sites, and more. You spend the time and effort to review some of this data, but it can be even more overwhelming.

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Let’s Be Honest About What Really Motivates Employees

YFS Magazine

Managing people is one of the hardest things to master as an employer. Every member of your staff has different motivations, personal goals and behavior.

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Want to Turn Your Hobby Into a Full-Time Career? Here are Some Tips

The Startup Magazine

Millions of people around the globe have side gigs that they run on top of their everyday jobs. These hobbies or freelancing projects help them make a little extra money, build new skills and spend time on activities that are interesting, challenging and motivating. The side hustle is here to stay. If you’re one of these people, it’s likely you’ve been dreaming about someday handing in your resignation at work and committing all your time and energy to your passions.

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Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund

Ben's Blog

Yo, the sun don’t shine forever. But as long as it’s here then we might as well shine together. —Sean “Diddy” Combs, “Victory”.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. That’s what McKinsey says in this article. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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$100,000 Investment to be Awarded at Capital Factory’s Women in Tech Summit

Austin Startup

Capital Factory is committed to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our coworking space an inclusive and welcoming environment. Capital Factory’s second annual Women in Tech Summit is a day full of programming to help inspire, engage and elevate female entrepreneurs and professionals. The $100,000 Investment Challenge puts up cash and the support of our Accelerator community to promote female founders with tech startups.

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RetailMeNot Appoints Chief Technology Officer and Diversity Director

SiliconHills

RetailMeNot has appointed Vivek Sagi as its chief technology officer and Sharon Brogdon as its new director of diversity and inclusion. Sagi previously worked as the head of product and engineering for Amazon Business Procurement Solutions and as chief technology officer for Woot.com, an Amazon company. Before Amazon, Sagi worked at Vungle, a Google Ventures-backed […].

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Business Lessons from Wolfgang Puck

Growthink Blog

For a recent wedding anniversary, I took my wife to Spago Beverly Hills, one of Wolfgang Puck's most renowned restaurants. read more.

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Yesterday, we cut a ribbon

Jeff Hilimire

Above: Mike and Carla of Dagger, Pat Wilson (Commissioner), Dale Royal (Invest Atlanta), me, and Ryan. Check it off the list: I finally was a part of a ribbon cutting :). Yes, we officially announced our new office space to the world. The Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development made us legit by cutting the ribbon and celebrating Dragon Army and Dagger’s rapid growth and new office in Old 4th Ward.

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10 Best E-commerce Website Builder Software

YoungUpstarts

One of the most important steps to complete when starting a new online store is choosing the right platform to use. The platform you opt for will determine the overall user experience your store can offer. In turn, it will also determine the long-term success of your new e-commerce outlet. There are so many platforms to choose from these days, especially with the rise of online businesses.

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8 Challenges When Scaling Your New Venture Worldwide

Startup Professionals Musings

Market opportunities for your new venture are now immediately worldwide, thanks to the pervasive access to the Internet and social media communication. But this doesn’t mean that you can treat the world as one big homogeneous market, ignoring the vastly different geographic cultures, economic, and political realities. Scaling worldwide is like hyperlocal on steroids.

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