Wed.Aug 02, 2017

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How To Manage Your Business More Effectively

YoungUpstarts

Managing a business is hard work. It can be frustrating and stressful when things are not going as you had planned. When figuring out how to run your business, make sure everything you do saves you time or money and helps the business grow. Whether you run the business and work on your own, or manage other people, these tips can help you figure out how to let go of the stress and run your business more effectively.

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7 Reasons To Start A New Focus On Inbound Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few really understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. In my experience, it’s the fastest way to create trust and authenticity in this age of the consumer.

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8 Awesome Startup Ideas For Young Minds

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurship can be a tough challenge to tackle. Along with the challenge can come many hardships and setbacks, but any successful entrepreneur knows that these tough times pale in comparison to the feeling of working for yourself and even growing a business. Most successful entrepreneurs today started out by just growing their own services into small businesses when they were young.

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Crush Your Content Marketing With These Essential Tips

YFS Magazine

Do you meet the most pressing marketing mandate of today: deliver the right content, right customer, right time? If not, here's how.

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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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Debunking The Biggest Myths Of Hiring: Four Faulty Beliefs That Could Be Hindering Your Company’s Selection Process 

YoungUpstarts

by Scott Wintrip, author of “ High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant “ There’s a shortage of skilled workers across all industries in the country. You’ve likely experienced this skills shortage impact within your own organization, usually in the form of empty desks and jobs remaining unfulfilled for weeks or months at a time.

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How To Create A Thriving Culture For Remote Teams

YFS Magazine

Although remote work offers a competitive advantage for companies to attract top talent, it is still a challenge for businesses to manage remote employees.

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Time Tracking Software and Startup Success

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to running a business, there are a few very important things you need to consider – quality, quantity, and timeliness. Without these three, having a profitable business would be impossible. However, these three wouldn’t exist without this one vital thing, and that is efficiency. For you to monitor and ensure your business’ efficiency , it’s highly recommended that you get a time tracking software.

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How to Be a Business Superhero

Growthink Blog

There is one key to becoming a business superhero. One that leads their organization to ongoing growth and success. It is often overlooked because business, for the very most part, is an incremental game. Each and every day we strive to make small improvements in key business processes - reducing the amount of time it takes to fill a customer order, or complete a project, or increase the conversions from our marketing efforts into sales leads, or once we have those good prospects to increase the

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eCommerce Link Building Guide For Startups

The Startup Magazine

Learn how to build a foundation of authority for your startup eCommerce website using tried and true white-hat link building tactics. About the Tactic. Links are integral to your success with Search Engine Optimization (SEO). They help Google and other search engines find your site and content for index and ranking, AND they pass “authority” or strength to your site to help boost organic rankings.

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Top HR Forums and HR Blogs to expand your expertise

Transformify

Whether you are a HR professional or a startup founder, you work with people daily. May be you are fascinated about the future of work, interested in the latest legislation changes, visa regulations or the best HR practices. In all cases, there are HR Forums and and HR Blogs you may follow to expand your expertise, receive answers to your questions or simply network with HR experts.

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Sole Traders: The Perfect Audience for Online Accountants

The Startup Magazine

Would you agree that it is gradually becoming more difficult to compete in the traditional accounting space? If so, you are probably aware of an emerging DIY mindset among business owners and accounting managers. It is a mindset fueled by a digital age that offers a tonne of information on virtually any subject with a simple internet search. As an accountant, you know your business is changing.

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7 Steps to Building a Successful Channel Partner Program

ConversionXL

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. Can this be true? These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. In today’s environment, if B2B organizations are going to make it, they need to grow. Partnerships can be a big help. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity.

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Why We’re All Still Talking About Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

Why We’re All Still Talking About Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Rebekah Radice. Podcast Transcript. Social media didn’t go away – it just moved. It moved to become another strategic element of marketing where it belongs. The fact is, if you plan to benefit from social behavior, you must alter your thinking around the proper use of social media for each stage of the customer jounry.

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7 Steps to Building a Successful Channel Partner Program

ConversionXL

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. Can this be true? These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. In today’s environment, if B2B organizations are going to make it, they need to grow. Partnerships can be a big help. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity.

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Love letter to a … battery backup.

Berkonomics

Well, if you’ve had a computer long enough, it has certainly happened to you. Power surges, power outages, surges upon reinstatement of power, low or high voltage from your utility (brownouts or surges.) I’ve had all of these over the years and lost equipment from motherboards to microcells. And I’ve lost data due to sudden power loss. I have worried over every wind storm or thunderstorm.

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

View from Seed

What will the future hold? It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in. Some conclude that certain sectors or technologies — like AI, blockchain, VR — will define the next decade. Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. At NextView, we think the best way to divine the future is to see it in the context of the longer arc of time.

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“We are one of just 13 industrialized countries with a rising maternal mortality rate” – Christy Turlington Burns on Fighting for Healthy Mothers

Hunter Walker

I’d open this post by saying “ Christy Turlington Burns works tirelessly to improve maternal health” except Christy doesn’t seem even recognize the concept of ‘tired.’ Attribute this energy to her yoga and running dedication, or maybe the very personal experiences in Christy’s own pregnancy which caused her to start Every Mother Counts , but either way her internal combustion engine breaks the rules of physics.

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CMMS Software Makes It Easier For Young Entrepreneurs To Oversee Maintenance

YoungUpstarts

Dealing with big data can indeed be overwhelming especially when you’re a young entrepreneur who has just started off with your start-up firm. Regardless of whether you’re a novice or a seasoned businessman, you have to fully understand where the data is coming from; in what way is it collected and the feasible conclusions which can be drawn from such resources.

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A Diverse Team is More Productive

Mike Michalowicz

Everyone knows the saying “if you build it, they will come.” The same rule applies to the type of work environment you create. Diversity doesn’t happen overnight. And a more diverse team of employees means a broader range of perspectives brought to the problem-solving table. When employees feel comfortable taking chances on out-of-the-box thinking and creativity, their productivity will increase.

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Supercharge Your Small Business Marketing: How to Market to the Social Media Generation

crowdSPRING Blog

Imagine you’ve used the internet since your hand was large enough to hold a mouse. Imagine you can’t remember a time before MySpace or Facebook. Imagine you’re part of a generation that makes up a majority of the voting population and workforce. The social media generation doesn’t need to imagine these things. This is their reality.

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Transcript of Why We’re All Still Talking About Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Why We’re All Still Talking About Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Social media, gosh. Are we still talking about that? Well, yes, of course we are. But it’s not this extension of your marketing, it is a part of your strategic approach. It works at all phases of the funnel of the journey.

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Supercharge Your Small Business Marketing: How to Market to the Social Media Generation

crowdSPRING Blog

Imagine you’ve used the internet since your hand was large enough to hold a mouse. Imagine you can’t remember a time before MySpace or Facebook. Imagine you’re part of a generation that makes up a majority of the voting population and workforce. The social media generation doesn’t need to imagine these things. This is their reality.

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A Few Economic Indicators To Watch The Rest Of 2017

YoungUpstarts

by Stephen Ng, author of “ 10 Financial Mistakes You Should Avoid: Strategies Designed to Help Keep Your Money Safe and Growing “ According to the Washington Post, economic growth was slow in the United States during the first quarter of 2017, moving along at only 0.7 percent. The number is a big drop off from the 2.1 percent growth experienced by the nation in the final quarter of 2016 and a long way from President Donald Trump’s promise of 3 percent economic growth during his time

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Why a Minimalist Logo Can Work Great For Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Successful businesses often share a common trait: they have unique, simple, smart logos. As we wrote previously : The most important job of a logo is to help customers and customer prospects identify your company. That’s why the best logos are simple and memorable. Just think about how many logos you are able to recognize in your everyday life! Those logos serve as a reminder that Nike was the brand that made your shoes, or that Apple is the reason why you’re reading this on a Macbook.

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Why a Minimalist Logo Can Work Great For Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Successful businesses often share a common trait: they have unique, simple, smart logos. As we wrote previously : The most important job of a logo is to help customers and customer prospects identify your company. That’s why the best logos are simple and memorable. Just think about how many logos you are able to recognize in your everyday life! Those logos serve as a reminder that Nike was the brand that made your shoes, or that Apple is the reason why you’re reading this on a Macbook.