Wed.Apr 04, 2018

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Rebel Against Business Norms To Build Employee Engagement

YoungUpstarts

by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey, coauthors of “ Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement “ Companies are innovating and changing at a rate previously unimagined. Product lifecycles are shorter, links between manufacturing and the customer are closer and the demands for process improvement and process change have never been greater.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Consumer companies are the ones that drive the headlines, that generate the most clicks on Techcrunch, and are top of mind for many in the tech industry. So I’d like to celebrate this brief point in time where the enterprise strikes back. While one of the darlings of the last 10 years, Facebook, is getting pummeled, the enterprise market is back in the spotlight.

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Twitter Tips: How to Get the Most Out of Your 280-Character Limit

The Startup Magazine

Virtually everyone who uses social media is aware of the existence of Twitter. Millions of Americans have their own Twitter accounts, whether they use them regularly or not. With more than 300 million “ monthly active users ,” Twitter generates billions of impressions every day. Yet, as a company and platform, Twitter has a lot of issues. It’s only belatedly coming to grips with its bot problem, which may be far worse than commonly assumed.

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How Content Marketing And SEO Create Online Business Success

YoungUpstarts

by Robert Harden , founder of PDX SEO. Content marketing is a broad term. It includes all of the digital assets that a business owner uses to put their brand on the radar of potential customers. It can include everything from blog writing to video content, podcasting, social media posts, and Google ads. But what a lot of people miss is that it must work hand-in-hand with SEO (search engine optimization).

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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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Simon Arias Reveals His Top Tips for Financing Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

There are a lot of different elements involved in the process of running a business. But, there is no doubt that the financial side of things ranks as one of the most important. Without funding and financing, it’s pretty much impossible to get your business off the ground. There is a lot to think about when it comes to financing your startup. It’s important to look at the experience and advice of gurus like Simon Arias when exploring the best way to finance the business.

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iAdvance Now: Six Tips For Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

Capital is essential for the growth of any business, but traditional lenders often look for ways to deny you the funding your business needs to thrive. iAdvance Now is a leader in the alternative finance industry because they offer a suite of financial products (including merchant cash advances and business loans) designed to help entrepreneurs like you get the money you need before it is too late.

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3 Keys To Your Auto Parts Store Being Successful

YoungUpstarts

Running an auto parts store can prove to be both a successful and challenging operation. On the one hand, you have to keep the right supplies in stock at the right prices for your customers. On the flip side, you need to make sure vendors and others in the business food chain fulfill their roles. So, are you driven to make your auto parts operation a success or are you in fact going in reverse?

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How To Leverage the Power of SMS Marketing

YFS Magazine

While SMS marketing is not a new marketing tool, you still have plenty of time to benefit from the industry’s new wave. There are now more ways than ever to make text marketing a powerful component of your marketing mix.

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Do You Need An ETF Or A Mutual Fund?

YoungUpstarts

You may have heard about the need to choose between an ETF or mutual fund for your investing needs, but don’t know where to start. The two investment products offer different tax liabilities and require different costs to start. Making yourself aware of the differences will give you the information you need to make the right choice. What is an ETF?

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7 Ways to Make Your Business Money While You Sleep

Mike Michalowicz

Think about the way your business runs: you attract prospective clients, convert them to customers, collect the money, cultivate repeat business, and encourage customers to refer other prospective clients. Each of these steps entails specific challenges, and one of your goals as an entrepreneur should be to automate as many of these steps as possible.

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9 Fears That Keep You From Starting Your Own Business

The Startup Magazine

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CU Boulder’s New Venture Challenge 10th Anniversary

Feld Thoughts

Tonight, the New Venture Challenge at CU Boulder is having its 10th anniversary. It’s happening at the Boulder Theater from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and is open to the public. Register here to attend if you are interested. My partner Jason is leading the judging panel, which includes: Abby Barlow, partner and director of Investment Research at Crestone Capital.

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A Guide to Starting a Career in Australia

The Startup Magazine

Australia has a lot to offer in terms of job opportunities and economy in addition to a wonderful change of lifestyle where the outdoors can be enjoyed from the wonderful beaches. Between 2005 and 2010, over 100,000 people have moved to Australia from the United Kingdom alone and you need to consider why. The Australian immigration process is not the easiest.

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EBW 2020 Launches MintHer Aimed at Helping Female Founders Scale Their Ventures

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News At South by Southwest 2018, Ingrid Vanderveldt, chairman, and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 movement, launched MintHer, a financial resources network for female entrepreneurs. Vanderveldt, who previously served as the first entrepreneur in residence at Dell, spoke at SXSW 2018 on “Empowering a Billion […].

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Considering Service Management Software? 10 Core Features It Must Offer

The Startup Magazine

Finding the right job management software for your maintenance business is no easy feat. After doing some research, you might have found it difficult to pinpoint what features are necessities and which are not. One thing for certain is that it is vital to invest in the best software which supports both your customers and staff. Ensure that whatever software you decide on, it provides these ten features.

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How to Attract Customers and Keep Them Forever

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Attract Customers and Keep Them Forever written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Joey Coleman. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Joey Coleman. He is Chief Experience Composer at Design Symphony. He and I discuss his new book, Never Lose a Customer Again , which discusses the 8 phases your customer has the potential to travel through as part of their customer journey and the 6 tools you c

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Tips for Starting a Successful Online T-Shirt Business

The Startup Magazine

Starting an online t-shirt is a relatively simple and low cost way of setting up an online business. To make it really successful though can be quite a bit harder and takes a bit of work. There is a lot of competition online for t-shirt sales. Your designs have to really click with consumers to sell in big numbers. It is definitely doable though and there are massive financial rewards for people who can pull it off.

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#MeToo Movement Leaders Encourage Corporate HR Leaders to Push for Systemic Change

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News Voice can be a powerful lever for change, said Adam Grant, bestselling author and professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Grant moderated a panel at WorkHuman 2018, a meeting of human resource professionals put on by Globoforce, at the Austin Convention Center Wednesday morning […].

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Designing the Perfect Product from Scratch

Austin Startup

So you have an idea. So you have a revolutionary idea for a new product. You have a vision, a well thought out business model, and you’re able to execute. If everything goes as planned, you’ll improve the lives of billions of consumers and fundamentally reshape the industry. But how do you turn a good idea into a successful product? For starters, it’s important to acknowledge that building a product is incredibly difficult.

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Should We All Hate Amazon?

Growthink Blog

Amazon is usually in the news for being a company that customers love. Because of its low prices, vast selection and fast shipping. And above all else for that invaluable feeling that if a customer has a problem - any problem - that the company will make it right. But last week Amazon was in the news for the opposite reason - as a company that perhaps we should hate ?

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Tips to Impress When Meeting with Clients for the First Time

Transformify

When meeting with a new client for the first time, you most certainly want to impress them. You also want to be careful, however, of not going overboard. There is an acronym that has taken root in the dating world that also applies to much of life. It's TWTH and it stands for Trying Way Too Hard. People can sense desperation and while neediness tends to be a turnoff in the dating world, it can be even more so in business.

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Transcript of How to Attract Customers and Keep Them Forever

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Attract Customers and Keep Them Forever written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Joey Coleman. He is the chief experience composer at Design Symphony and also the author of a book we are going to talk about today, Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days.

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5 points on TIME MANAGEMENT

Jeff Hilimire

#1 – Advice on how a startup CEO should prioritize their time. #2 – A chat about getting things done. #3 – I use email and my calendar to manage my life. Here’s my calendar process. #4 – Living in the inbox. #5 – Some changes to how I’m managing my time. ~ photo by @karishea. The post 5 points on TIME MANAGEMENT appeared first on Begin the Begin.