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Keep Customers Coming Back For More

YoungUpstarts

When you are running a business online , you need to think about what makes a customer tick. And, perhaps more importantly, what makes a customer buy. There can be a lot of factors that determine a customer’s buying behavior, and you need to be aware of them all. You need to make sure that there are no issues that could stop a customer buying from you and that there are lots of strategies in place to ensure that they keep coming back to your business.

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5 Tips for Starting a Successful Clothing Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

Many people want to start a clothing brand. After all, how difficult could it be? The truth is that successful clothing brands become successful in part because they’re created by people who are passionate about clothing. But, a clothing brand needs more than just exquisite design to create a lasting business. It needs all the trappings of a successful business as well.

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Why You Must Optimize for Conversions Before Awareness

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Optimize for Conversions Before Awareness written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When marketers plan their campaigns, the objective is usually to achieve one of two goals: increase brand awareness or maximize conversions. These two styles of marketing work together but they’re distinct from one another. Awareness marketing involves establishing a reputation within your niche, differentiating yourself from competitors and bringing people into the top of your funnel.

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ATA Action Alert: Texas’ bathroom bill

Austin Startup

Sign on to a tech community letter On July 18, the Texas Legislature will begin a special session, and one of the topics they’ll consider is the “ bathroom bill ” — proposed legislation to restrict where transgender Texans can use the bathroom and weaken existing non-discrimination protections in Austin and other cities across Texas. The concept isn’t new: the country watched last year as North Carolina passed its bathroom bill, resulting in lost business that grew into the billions.

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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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Is Your Virtual Team a Mess? These Apps Can Help

Duct Tape Marketing

Is Your Virtual Team a Mess? These Apps Can Help written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What does it take to run a successful business? Every entrepreneur has their own viewpoint. Their personal idea of what it takes to achieve success. Steve Jobs, had this to say: “It’s not the tools you have faith in–tools are just tools–they work, or they don’t work.

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SAP Leonardo: The dawn of intelligent applications

deal architect

At SapphrieNow a few weeks ago, SAP’s Hasso Plattner painted the vision of “Intelligent Applications” to include Intelligent Transactions – automate high-frequency repetitive tasks Analytics – make data-driven insights available to everybody Collaboration – tap into the collective intelligence of.

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3 Quick Tips To Improve Your Facebook Live Broadcasts

YFS Magazine

As Facebook Live has matured, it’s proven to be a valuable tool for brands to enhance their social media presence, and it can do the same for yours.

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Giving A Boost To Your Business: Things To Consider

YoungUpstarts

Picture the scene. It isn’t difficult, because you’ve probably been there. You are being driven to a meeting, working on the way. You are on the phone to a potential new client, getting on well and about to seal a great deal. You are heading for the railway bridge, ready to pass under. And there it goes, signal lost, call lost, contract gone. Stay in touch.

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5 Quick Tips To Polish Your Brand Image

YFS Magazine

Branding is fluid. You can't set it and forget it. Monitor your brand strategies to determine what works and delivers results.

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Everything You Need To Know For Your Next Video Interview

YoungUpstarts

by Jessica Oaks. With Google Hangouts, Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime – to name just a few examples of video conferencing platforms – now commonplace, it’s easier than ever to speak with someone via video. Long promised in science fiction films, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Star Trek , video conferencing is no longer a far-off pipe dream. It’s here. And increasingly, the business world is using it for everything from internal meetings to job interviews.

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The Shock of Mortality

Feld Thoughts

In June, Amy and I had three friends die. One was a mentor of Amy’s from Wellesley, one was the father of a close friend, and one was the wife of a good friend of over 25 years. Yesterday, while sitting at my desk between calls, I noticed an email from another friend titled Thank You For The Throne. The email said: After spending many days visiting my mom in the hospital, I felt the need to thank you for your support of Boulder Community Hospital.

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Mark Siffin: The Visionary Genius Behind Maefield Development

YoungUpstarts

Maefield Development is a privately-owned, vertically-integrated real estate development firm headed up by Chairman and CEO Mark Siffin , who has been with the company since its formation in 1991. In his leadership role, Mr. Siffin shoulders overarching responsibilities like planning the strategic direction of the firm and overseeing general management.

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Fireside Chat On University Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder with Bill Aulet

Feld Thoughts

I’ll be doing a fireside chat on university entrepreneurship at CU Boulder on 7/26 from 10:30 to noon with Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Register and join us. The post Fireside Chat On University Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder with Bill Aulet appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Investor and Entrepreneur Michael Girdley Featured on Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

Michael Girdley, an entrepreneur, and investor, is one of the people actively working to establish San Antonio as a technology hub. Girdley, who earned a computer science degree with honors from Lafayette College, worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley. He is also the author of several books on Java programming with a focus on […] The post Investor and Entrepreneur Michael Girdley Featured on Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Truth About Traveling Non-Stop

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I’m writing you today from Castellon, a town one hour drive from Valencia in Spain. I’m here visiting my father, my 9-year-old little half-brother, and his mother, who is Spanish. This is my first time in Spain. A couple of weeks ago I was in London. Before that, I was. The post The Truth About Traveling Non-Stop appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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??Fresh from the SPRING: horus

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to create a logo design that combines image and text for a wood products company. Let us start the slow clap for horus. Check out more great work on horus’ profile page.

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The Science of Pre-Suasion

Duct Tape Marketing

The Science of Pre-Suasion written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Robert Cialdini. Like so many others in marketing, one of the first books I read was Influence. Today this is required reading for anyone trying to persuade through writing, messaging, speaking – pretty much any form of communication. The principles outlined in this book have stood the test of time.

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The Truth About Traveling Non-Stop

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I’m writing you today from Castellon, a town one hour drive from Valencia in Spain. I’m here visiting my father, my 9-year-old little half-brother, and his mother, who is Spanish. This is my first time in Spain. A couple of weeks ago I was in London. Before that, I was. The post The Truth About Traveling Non-Stop appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Where Do I Find Capital For My Startup?

YoungUpstarts

by Brad Mishlove, CEO and founder of Catapult Groups. The romantic ideal of a successful startup includes little more than a good idea, a laptop and plenty of coffee. In reality, most startups require an early capital infusion to successfully transform from a dream into a business. The good news is that it’s easier than ever to find capital for your startup.

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Be the superhero your younger self wanted you to be

Jeff Hilimire

Most of the time I have an idea for a blog post, I write it, and then I find an image that I think works well with it. Sometimes the image can add to the message and sometimes it simply makes the post look better. Once in a while I find an image and it strikes me, “THAT is a blog post.” I thought that the moment I saw the above image. I’m a husband and father first.

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The Science of Pre-Suasion

Duct Tape Marketing

The Science of Pre-Suasion written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Robert Cialdini. Like so many others in marketing, one of the first books I read was Influence. Today this is required reading for anyone trying to persuade through writing, messaging, speaking – pretty much any form of communication. The principles outlined in this book have stood the test of time.

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Boy! If I had only learned this before spending a million!

Berkonomics

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. I love absolutes – statements with no wiggle room for gray-area responses. Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. Close. Let me tell you a short story at my own expense. In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience

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“When there is pain in America, we see more volume.” Crisis Text Line, Tech & Trump.

Hunter Walker

When and how did I first meet Nancy Lublin , CEO/Founder of Crisis Text Line ? I don’t recall but I know that once I got introduced I held on and wouldn’t let go. Because Nancy is always moving in interesting directions with compelling missions and people around her. Some of this velocity can be attributed to her New Yorker residency but the majority of it comes from her heart, which is like some superpowered, perpetual motion machine.

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