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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online. Editor’s Note: this piece is an excerpt from Hacking Growth.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 1–7

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 1, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 1 through May 7 are as follows: Monday, May 1: Food & Tech ATX Meet Up (FREE) If working on current or future challenges associated with food, you are invited to come network with innovators and ahead-of-the-curve thinkers in this community.

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A new era in IT

deal architect

Max Hopper, writing in HBR in 1990 talked about the then IT “Hall of Fame” including SABRE, American Airlines’s reservation system, which eventually became a computerized reservation system (CRS), and Apollo, the other leading CRS, transformed marketing and distribution in.

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3 Reasons Why Great Design Matters To Your Brand

Brandanew

It’s easy to get lost in the day to day workings of your Startup or small business. It’s much harder to find time to hone your online presence and evaluate what’s working. Most people think of content as the mainstay of good brand experiences. But most of us tend to ignore that content includes great design. You do not want your consumers to find your content.

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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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8 Unconscious Biases Shape Your Business Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Every boss and decision maker is convinced that he or she is able to look objectively at any problem, and make an unbiased decision. Some typically worry about biases in their team, but rarely think of themselves as a source of bias. In reality, everyone has biases, and needs to make sure they are researching objective data, and listening to alternatives, before making a decision.

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These entrepreneurs don’t mind if you copy their best growth strategies

The Next Web

Behind every high-growth business, there is a stroke of a genius kind of idea that put the wheels in motion. If you talk to any entrepreneur, they’ll tell you that a great business idea without a tangible growth plan is worth as much as a car with an empty gas tank. You won’t get far. In fact, you won’t get further than your own garage. So to really kick their business into higher gear and avoid being checkmated by their opponents or unfavorable market conditions, startups must go through a rapi

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These entrepreneurs don’t mind if you copy their best growth strategies

The Next Web

Behind every high-growth business, there is a stroke of a genius kind of idea that put the wheels in motion. If you talk to any entrepreneur, they’ll tell you that a great business idea without a tangible growth plan is worth as much as a car with an empty gas tank. You won’t get far. In fact, you won’t get further than your own garage. So to really kick their business into higher gear and avoid being checkmated by their opponents or unfavorable market conditions, startups must go through a rapi

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Using Analytics Effectively To Execute Your Brand Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. Communication is the essence of developing a brand strategy. From the very moment of a company’s inception it needs to start building up a network that produces more contacts and more meaningful relationships between itself and its audience. The goal is stimulating more engaging conversation that changes public perception, identifies consumer expectations, and brings the company into open dialogue.

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5 Signs It’s Time For A Rebrand

YFS Magazine

Your branding communicates the first impression. Does your brand clearly communicate who you are and how you can help customers?

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Why You Should Use Localisation in a Globalised World

The Startup Magazine

Sushi – a food that has reached its tentacles around the world and is now served in over 20,000 restaurants outside Japan, can be considered a truly successful global product. In fact, Sushi is so international, that its adapted American version is now re-entering the Japanese market as a new, exotic food trend. Sushi is just one example of globalisation, the worldwide movement towards economic, financial, trade and communication integration.

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Best Large U.S. Cities To Start A Business In 2017

YFS Magazine

Where should your startup put down roots? WalletHub’s analysts compared the 150 most populated U.S. cities across 18 key indicators of startup viability.

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Naming Your Business: Process and Pitfalls

The Startup Magazine

Company names like Apple, Amazon and eBay evoke an image of success and cutting-edge technology. They make an emotional connection with consumers, resulting in the kind of brand recognition that many companies dream of. It’s hard to overstate the importance of a business name. Not only is it the first thing that customers see, it also sums up the company and its unique take on an industry.

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6 Quick Tips To Boost Your Brand On Twitter And Instagram

YFS Magazine

Engaging with your customers has never been easier (or cheaper) than it is now — if you know how to use social media to your advantage.

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Lain Ehmann: How A Passion For Scrapbooking Turned Into A Blogging Business Making Over $100,000 Per Year

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] If you have ever wanted to hear how someone turned their personal passion hobby — in this case scrapbooking — into a six-figure business, then you need to listen to this interview with Lain Ehmann. Lain sent. The post Lain Ehmann: How A Passion For Scrapbooking Turned Into A Blogging Business Making Over $100,000 Per Year appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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10 Things Entrepreneurs Wish They Had Done Before Starting a Business

Up and Running

There’s nothing quite like having a mentor to guide you while you undergo the process of starting a business. While we’d certainly recommend having a real-life mentor who can advise you on the ins and outs of your business specifically, we’re also advocates for turning to successful business owners en masse and mining their advice and experience. Where better to turn than the entrepreneurs at the YEC ?

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Lain Ehmann: How A Passion For Scrapbooking Turned Into A Blogging Business Making Over $100,000 Per Year

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] If you have ever wanted to hear how someone turned their personal passion hobby — in this case scrapbooking — into a six-figure business, then you need to listen to this interview with Lain Ehmann. Lain sent. The post Lain Ehmann: How A Passion For Scrapbooking Turned Into A Blogging Business Making Over $100,000 Per Year appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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How To Raise Money For Your New Company

YoungUpstarts

by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. It’s not enough to have a great idea. While you might be able to bootstrap your businesses, many founders will need outside funding to start (or grow) their businesses. You might get lucky and raise start-up capital from venture capital firms. But the vast majority of founders raise the initial funding for their business from friends and family, or angel investors, wealthy individuals who fund new startups.

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Using LinkedIn For Your Business Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are an experienced entrepreneur looking to boost your lead generation opportunities, or you are just starting out in the business world, the importance of growing your brand is critical. Marketing strategies can be hugely expensive, but there are a number of tools and platforms that you can leverage that won’t cost you a dime. All that they will cost you is your time and effort.

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