deal architect
MAY 31, 2017
Phil Fersht wrote a cheerful (not) post this weekend where he asks Is our sole purpose now simply to eliminate people? We spend a couple of decades displacing "expensive" workers because we could find less expensive able ones to do.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 31, 2017
Can A Salesperson Really Think Like a Marketer? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Scott Ingram. Podcast Transcript. I wrote a book titled Duct Tape Selling – Think like a marketer, sell like a superstar. Occasionally, I hear from salespeople who read the book and acted on the advice and the story is always the same – it’s a lot of work but the payoff is worth it.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness. Employee burnout is on the rise thanks to our digital lives — it’s easy to answer an email at 9p.m. when you’re in bed because your phone is likely already in your hands, or on your bed stand. This burnout, otherwise known as stress, impacts employee performance, the quality of their work and relationships with coworkers and management, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 31, 2017
Many startups and entrepreneurs I advise still default to growing their business via the traditional top-down, order-taking culture. I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions.
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
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
The United Kingdom is seeing a surge of creative energy from young entrepreneurs bubble up from all corners of the island. The new generation is made up of a diverse set of creative minds with a vision. Although their industries are different what defines most young entrepreneurs across the UK is a desire to recreate and reinvent, hashing out their own idea of what the future is for their markets and attracting widespread success with it.
Rembrandt Communications
MAY 31, 2017
Why Do You Need Copywriting That Sells, Anyway? Give your target market valuable content on a regular basis. Have a professional copywriter write copy that sells. Share content via social media. You hear about how important it is to provide fresh, new content to your target audience on a daily basis. And while you […]. The post Discover 5 Competitive Advantages of Great Content appeared first on Get health and technology copywriting for more sales here.
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The Next Web
MAY 31, 2017
There’s no doubt that technology has, in so many ways, transformed our lives and the way we do business. It has given us access to endless information, research and advice. Google “how to…” and it will come up with endless results on pretty much every topic you can think of, but as useful as data can be, it pays no attention to basic human instincts, which can be more powerful and important when it comes to making business decisions.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
If you ever watched or read The Big Short, you might have found the story interesting and wondered how those traders got short. You might have even thought about shorting some stocks yourself, but did know what to look for. There are some things you’ll need to be mindful of when you’re shorting stocks , such as margin, short interest, floating shares and days to cover.
YFS Magazine
MAY 31, 2017
Countries outside the U.S. are eager to encourage economic growth. If you haven't jumped into business overseas yet, here are 5 hurdles you must overcome.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
Running a startup is often like a juggling act. You need the best talents to join you but don’t really have the resources to attract and keep them within the organization. It’s a genuine challenge almost all new businesses face. As with any other challenge, you need to get pretty creative to solve it. One way to get potential employees to pick you over some corporate behemoth is to offer attractive perks and benefits.
Up and Running
MAY 31, 2017
When Airbnb experienced a period of hypergrowth, it did what any company would do—it quickly hired as many talented people as it could. However, the data science department soon noticed a problem : Almost all of the new hires were men. In a company founded on diverse collaboration and fostering a sense of universal belonging, having a key department so off-kilter from company goals was cause for alarm.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
In today’s world, Alexa rating is one of the great application for calculating your personal website’s rating or performance. The application also helps to determine the backlinks that your website has earned. Having a website and staying at the top getting the best rating is a tough job, as the competition is very high. In every field whether it may be personal, commercial or some moneymaking site, your site has to face a tough competition and win over the others.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 31, 2017
Watchr was founded in June 2016 by Claudio de Giovanni, a 27 years old entrepreneur. He designed and developed a unique digital platform to connect seller and buyer of pre-owned luxury watches. He got the idea to develop Watchr when one day he wanted to buy a second-hand luxury watch and encountered difficulties to do it. It is at this stage that he identified a problem in the luxury goods market that needed a solution.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
Owning a business is a big commitment, you want your assets and employees safe and you want everything to run smoothly. Key to keeping on top of your business is taking care of security both in the physical space your business occupies and also online. Physical Security. 1. Surveillance. If you run a business out of a location that isn’t your home, or a building that has security included in your lease, you should seriously consider installing some kind of surveillance system.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 31, 2017
Consider the three charts above. They are all representations of the same exponential function where the Y value is equal to two times it’s previous value. The first chart shows the data series for the first twenty values, the second chart shows the data series for values on through ten, and the third chart shows the data series for values eleven through twenty.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 31, 2017
Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( [link].) They reported 928 new woman-owned businesses as cropping up each day with more than 11 million woman-owned firms nationally. The research suggested the best states for startup activity included New York, Memphis and Dallas.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 31, 2017
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Scott Kitun, CEO of Technori , to talk about crowdSPRING’s global community of more than 200,000 designers and writers. Over the past nine years, crowdSPRING creatives have helped startups, businesses, agencies and non-profits around the world with professional logo design , web design , print design and company naming.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MAY 31, 2017
[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Welcome to the fourth ‘Solo Session’ episode of the EJ Podcast, where today I break down how I have invested money over the years. Investing is not something I spent a lot of time on for most. The post From Buying Property, To Angel Investing, Bitcoin, Ethereum And Index Funds — This Is How I Invest My Money appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2017
by Harnil Oza, CEO of Hyperlink Infosystem. Social media today is an integral part of the internet, and some may even argue it is the current climate of the internet as a whole. Think of the last time you used a mobile or PC device; chances are you were probably on one or more of the popular social media apps, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or YouTube.
ConversionXL
MAY 31, 2017
The lead capture form has become one of the most ubiquitous tools in a marketer’s toolbelt. For a decade now, it has been the mechanism that makes inbound marketing and lead generation possible. As a result, many marketers have become obsessed with optimizing forms. It has always seemed like a given that if your conversion rate is slumping, you could fix it by making some adjustments to your forms (e.g. reducing the number of fields ).
Austin Startup
MAY 31, 2017
Infographic courtesy of the Austin Chronicle They’re baaaaaaaack. As of Monday morning, Uber and Lyft have resumed service in Austin, nearly 18 months after the Austin City Council set in motion one of the most rancorous public debates in the city’s history. I’ve been enmeshed in it all since the ride-hail duo first arrived in town three years ago: I was part of the working group established by Austin’s previous city council to establish a regulatory infrastructure for transportation network com
Version One Ventures
MAY 31, 2017
On May 26th, I attended the C2 conference in Montreal, joining my good friend Harley Finkelstein (Shopify), along with Magaly Charbonneau (Password Box), Wesley Chan (Felicis) and Eric Boyko (Stingray) on a panel. The theme was: “Entrepreneurial ecosystem: it takes a village to build a startup”. Harley asked about my experiences growing up in Toronto and moving to Silicon Valley, specifically what my thoughts are on the differences between the two communities.
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