Fri.Apr 21, 2017

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What's After The Gig Economy? The Talent Economy

Transformify

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. There are many marketplaces on the web where one can go to find talent, but how do you know that their work is quality? Reviews aren’t always reliable, and there is stiff competition on many gig platforms, making the prices undercut, the stakes lower and the work shoddy.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Favor People-Centric Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.

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Nurturing Your Customers For The Long Run

YoungUpstarts

by Augustus Franklin, founder and CEO of CallHub. I’m proud to say that I never speak with my longest standing customer. They’ve been with my company even before we officially got into our current market niche. A lot of their feedback has shaped the direction of my product. So why don’t we talk anymore? Because we don’t need to. Businesses talk to customers about how they can better meet their needs and customers reach out to the business when their needs are not met.

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Before You Quit Your 9-5, Launch Your Side Hustle

YFS Magazine

You deserve to live the life you have always wanted, and a side hustle can be the stepping stone to opportunities you didn’t even know existed.

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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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Mentors 15/18: Be Optimistic

Feld Thoughts

Last month I took two weeks completely off the grid. As part of it, I spent some time working on my next book, Give First. As part of that, I finished up the sections on Deconstructing the Techstars Mentor Manifesto. While I wrote a draft of this post over a month ago, It felt appropriate to publish this, and the next few Mentor Manifesto posts, after a wave of Techstars Demo Days that just happened. #15 is “Be Optimistic.” It sounds simple, but it can be incredibly difficult.

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Transform Negative Customer Feedback Into Positive Results

YFS Magazine

Customer feedback provides you with the data you need to win back customers, increase lifetime value and improve your product or service.

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So You Wanna Do CRO? It’s a Great Business to Be In

ConversionXL

While SEO and PPC are saturated markets that are getting harder and harder (while PPC costs keep rising), the conversion optimization market is just growing and growing. It’s a market where most competitors are good friends and openly sharing everything – there’s plenty of business to go around for all of us. If you’re a digital marketer and are looking to specialize in CRO, watch this video where the optimization legend Craig Sullivan shares his thoughts on the topic: I

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Is Diversity An Emerging Market or Sector?

Austin Startup

Diversity continues to be a hot topic of discussion and it’s great that more folks are talking it, but I asked myself recently, what actions are being taken? As I thought about actions, I then wondered how people viewed the word. For me, emerging market and sector spoke to me. So let’s define what they are. First up, emerging market. Investopia Definition Now, let’s check out the definition of sector.

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Affordable Tools to Help Maximize Your Social Media Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

Affordable Tools to Help Maximize Your Social Media Presence written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Social media has tilted the marketing landscape, with close to 90 percent of marketers believing in the importance of social media marketing—a practice that saw a spending of close to $10 billion in 2015. And as its reach has expanded, heightened importance has been placed on social media management, monitoring, analysis, automation and content creation.

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Thoughts on the Samsung Chromebook Plus after 30 days

Jeff Hilimire

I spend most of my computer time within Chrome. It’s how I use my calendar, how I check email, how I blog, how I use Google Drive…and when I realized that, I decided to try out the latest & greatest Google Chromebook: The Samsung Chromebook Plus. This particular device is meant to switch between being a tablet and a laptop. And it has a stylus, which I was excited about testing.

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