Thu.May 04, 2017

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Apology Accepted, United

YoungUpstarts

by Nate Regier, co-founding owner and chief executive officer of Next Element and author of “ Beyond Drama “ So I received a personal apology from United Airlines’ CEO, Oscar Munoz. If you have flown United, you probably got one too. I frequently United, and was shocked by the recent event of a passenger being forcibly removed from an overbooked flight.

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How to Get Organizational Buy-in for Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Testing in an enterprise is truly a team sport. If a testing program was a football team, its lead would be the QB. They can set the tone and direction, but without the support of a good offensive line, they’ll be scrambling to get any real results. To get a good “offensive line” in your company, you’ll need to get buy-in from the right people. Lean technology companies can rapidly test with as few as one person, but in a large corporation, knowing how to navigate the organization is just as imp

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What Makes Forex Trading A Good Investment?

YoungUpstarts

Foreign Currency Exchange Trading or simply Forex Trading is one of the most popular activities among modern investors. More and more people are showing interest in forex trading for different reasons and many of them look at this activity as a source of income for their future business ventures. With the right strategy, people can definitely benefit from this special type of trading.

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4 Ways Technology Can Improve Your Sales Productivity

YFS Magazine

Technology can remove redundant tasks and boost productivity. Identify bottlenecks in sales operations and use technology to fix them.

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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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Monthly Match: Planned Parenthood: #istandwithPP

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I have been supporting Planned Parenthood every year since we became a couple in 1990. Today, the House is going to vote on a bill that, among other things, defunds Planned Parenthood. I’m long past my surprise by any of what is coming out of Washington, so instead of being shocked, I’m just continuing to take action on things that are important to me.

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Why Our Executive Team Does Daily Standup Meetings

OnlyOnce

Another CEO with whom I trade notes on the craft of running a company asked me this question the other day, and I thought the answer would make a for a good blog post. Any product team (or other kind of team) who has Agile practices, does some kind of a Daily Standup (DSU) meeting in which each team member reviews progress against goals for a given period and highlights issues where he or she is blocked and needs help.

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Sponsoring and promoting women and minorities in tech

Austin Startup

The other day I saw the following tweet from Lara Hogan and it inspired me to do something about it. The first thing that came to mind was what is the difference between mentoring and sponsoring , then I read the article, and while its focus is about women being over-mentored instead of sponsored, the article painted a clear picture about the differences between the two.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: March 13th – May 3rd

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past seven weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “I found that when you get enough A players together…they don’t want to work with B & C players…” -Steve Jobs [link] (at 1:19). “[T]o be a great CEO, you need to find a way to force yourself to be a great recruiter.” -Ja

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Traffic from your competitors; good or bad for business?

Duct Tape Marketing

Traffic from your competitors; good or bad for business? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Competitor analysis seems to be one of the hot topics at the moment in the world of marketing. People are obsessed with what others are doing; so obsessed at times that they forget to focus on their own actions. Being too engaged in what competitors are doing often leads to business owners and marketers becoming sheep; simply following trends and reproducing content that’s already out

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How to use metrics and a dashboard

Berkonomics

Have you ever driven a car that had no speedometer? I had that thrill when a student at the Richard Petty Stock Car School of Driving at a motor speedway in California. With a wide track, angled aggressively at the curves, and being told to hug the wall on the straightaways, there was little reference available to a novice driver as to speed. I followed my instructor’s car closely, but still could not tell anything about my speed, so that I could neither compensate for lags behind the leader n

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Should Chatbots Be a Part of Your Marketing Strategy?

Duct Tape Marketing

Should Chatbots Be a Part of Your Marketing Strategy? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ben Beck. You know the topic of bots is a hot one when the Internet marketing crowd starts selling courses on making millions with chatbots! But, there’s reason for small business owners to start paying attention to this category as it’s probably here to stay.

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Things To Consider Before Hiring A PR Firm

YoungUpstarts

by Rebekah Epstein, founder of fifteen media. I get this question at almost every DIY PR workshop I do: “How do I know if a PR firm is the right fit for me?”. Finding the right PR firm can be a lot like dating; it could just be a gut instinct that tells you that you’ve found the one. If you’ve never had that feeling before, you’re not alone. Luckily, there are a few things you can consider that will help you make the right decision: .

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