Tue.Aug 14, 2018

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You Need to Be Listed on These 5 High-Visibility Directory Sites

The Startup Magazine

Turning up a new social media profile or directory listing takes all of 30 minutes. Alright, maybe an hour, if you want to do things right. You’ll need to make ongoing investments of time and resources (human, for sure, and perhaps financial) to expand and maintain these properties. But the listing process itself is a relative snap. Source: Pixabay.

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5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I conducted. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for the steps necessary for small business SEO. If you’re looking for a highly technical post on search engine optimization (SEO), this is not the content for you, and honestly, that’s because I don’t believe SEO is that technical (unless yo

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5 Online Tips For Food Trucks to Grow Their Business

Kodorra

They say Millennials are the food truck generation , where 47 percent of them have eaten from a food truck in the U.S. As the world consumes this ongoing gourmet trend, you shall be seeing more trucks lining up outside our office or your school. On the flip side, food truck entrepreneurs are trying to make a living serving specialty foods on wheels and competition can get pretty tough these days.

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Why Investing In Property Is Perfect For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

As a young entrepreneur, thinking about investment and planning your future is something that will become increasingly important as your business grows. As you expand and develop your business, it’s worth looking at ways you can invest your increasing capital. By investing the money you make now, you can start protecting your future and property is a great asset to have.

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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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Four Types Of Sales Objections (And How To Overcome Them)

YFS Magazine

Sales acceleration expert Jeb Blount identifies the four types of objections you'll encounter and offers some powerful techniques for turning them around.

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Splurge Or Save: How To Choose Between The Two

YoungUpstarts

Business is always about balancing between expenses and income. You want to invest the correct amount of money to have a smooth business operation and to generate income; at the same time, you also want to save money on the investments you make – and the expenses you pay – while maximizing operational revenue. For many startups and new companies, finding that balance isn’t always easy.

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4 Ways To Create A Workplace Environment That Breeds Greatness

YoungUpstarts

by Adam Witty, Founder and CEO of Advantage | ForbesBooks and author of “ Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant “ Check out the latest news reports from Wall Street and the focus is almost always on profits and losses. How much is the market up or down? Which corporation made how much money this quarter?

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Every Generation Learns The Same Lessons

Feld Thoughts

While it’s easy to tell people things, it’s much more powerful to learn things. And, as I get older, I see the same lessons being learned by subsequent generations. While this isn’t a post that says “everything is the same as it was before”, there are foundational lessons in life that play out over and over again. I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.

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9 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Improve Their Marketing Tactics in 2018

Up and Running

In 2017, U.S. companies spent a combined $85.93 billion on digital marketing. Two years from now, nationwide digital marketing spending is expected to surpass $100 billion. Still, only 9 percent of marketers believe their digital marketing is working, and it can be challenging for small business owners and entrepreneurs to build their marketing capacity and expertise.

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Podcast Options for StartUps – Tips from Clients on Demand

The Startup Magazine

According to Podcast Insights , there are over a half-a-million active podcast options available, providing approximately 18.5 million episodes of listening in more than 100 different languages. So, think of all of the consumers your business could potentially reach, solely by taking the time to share more about your company, its products and services, and other relevant information via a dedicated podcast.

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Looking for a True Enterprise Entrepreneur in Residence

David Teten

I’m researching an idea for how large enterprises which are not technology companies can promote innovation in their areas of interest. My proposal: hire a true Enterprise Entrepreneur in Residence, whose defined KPI is: Quit my job. (No, that’s not a typo). This idea would have a trivial cost: just the person’s compensation. . The sweet spot for an enterprise to trial this idea is probably a company big enough to have an innovation budget, but small enough that they do not have a dedicated

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Hiring an SEO Agency for your Startup

The Startup Magazine

There is a lot to think about when working on your startup. It may seem like there is always one more thing to purchase. Quite a bit of money goes out before it ever starts coming in from consumers. Just getting the business site setup can be costly. Marketing may be the last thing from your mind by the time everything else is done. Most people are aware that in order to make money, you need to show up on search results.

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Looking for a True Enterprise Entrepreneur in Residence

David Teten

I’m researching an idea for how large enterprises which are not technology companies can promote innovation in their areas of interest. My proposal: hire a true Enterprise Entrepreneur in Residence, whose defined KPI is: Quit my job. (No, that’s not a typo). This idea would have a trivial cost: just the person’s compensation. . The sweet spot for an enterprise to trial this idea is probably a company big enough to have an innovation budget, but small enough that they do not have a dedicated

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On The Road – Starting Your Own Mobile Business

The Startup Magazine

You love to drive and you don’t want to work for anyone any more. The next logical step would be to start a business that allows you to drive and brings you the control you want. Small businesses make up 99.7% of all businesses in the US and 60% of all new jobs created come from them. With over 56.8 million employees working within the small business sector it might seem that starting your own business is the recipe for success but this is only true if you are careful.

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CognitiveScale Partners with Dell to Deliver Tailored Customer Service Using AI

SiliconHills

The fourth industrial revolution is one in which machines and humans work together to solve problems and accomplish tasks. And it’s already here. One of the leaders in the space is CognitiveScale, a five-year-old Austin-based startup, that announced Tuesday it is partnering with Dell to create a new way to interact with customers using its […].

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How to Use Advertising as a Lead Generation Tool

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use Advertising as a Lead Generation Tool written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing is a broad term that encompasses a number of channels and approaches. Advertising is just one of them, and in our increasingly digital age, it can sometimes feel like a tactic of the past. However, when advertising is used properly, it can become an effective lead generation tool.

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UT Austin’s Blockchain Initiative Director Cesare Fracassi on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

Blockchain technology has the potential to transform businesses and entire industries. And the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin is at the forefront of this emerging technology with its newly launched Blockchain Initiative. UT Austin is participating in a new program focused on blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and digital payments.

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If I’ve ever helped you in any way…

Jeff Hilimire

If I’ve ever helped you in any way, even if its simply a blog post I wrote you that hit you at the right time, I’d be incredibly appreciative if you would consider supporting my wife’s upcoming Georgia 2-Day Walk for Cancer. This time last year we lost her best friend since 8th grade to breast cancer, and Emily is going to be walking 30 miles to try to raise as much money as possible to help find a cure.

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What makes Podia special

Spencer Fry

I wanted to publicly share my love for Podia and why I think it's so special. ??. TLDR: If you don't know what Podia is, it's an all-in-one digital storefront for creating and selling online courses , downloads, and memberships. That's what it does today, but we'll do whatever we need to do to help creators make money. #1: Our product is fluid, but our mission remains the same.

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Two Founders Dedicated to Helping Busy Adults in All Aspects of Their Career and Personal Life

Hearpreneur

The landscape of women entrepreneurs is significantly changing with more entrepreneurs coming up. Dr. Williams-McMillan is a published thought leader in the most traditional sense while Erika Danina Williams is an accomplished leader with more than 25 years experience in the creative and financial services industries for many Fortune 100 corporations.

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