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6 Social Media Sites & Directories Your Company Needs to Target Now

The Startup Magazine

Is your company’s online presence diverse and well-developed enough to stand out from the competition? If you’re not targeting most or all of the social media sites and directories on the list below, the answer may well be “no.” Here’s what you need to know about each. LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s most popular social media platform for professionals and brands.

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Stant: RPA in a Manufacturing setting

deal architect

When you think of automation on the shop floor you think robotics, IoT and AR/VR. On the other hand, when you talk to executives in white collar industries about automation, the conversation usually drifts to bots. Most SIs now have.

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5 Reasons Business Leaders Are Short On Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are a business professional or owner today, success is more and more about relationships. People relationships are the key to career growth, more than results, and customer relationships build brands, rather than the other way around. In this era of communication overload with many misleading messages, we have learned to count first on the people we know well, even virtually.

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Your Biggest Marketing Mistake In 2019 Will Likely Be Your Marketing Plan

YoungUpstarts

by Lonny Kocina, CEO of Media Relations Agency and author of “ The CEO’s Guide to Marketing: The Book Every Marketer Should Read Before Their Boss Does “ If you are looking for a big marketing idea that will blow the doors off your sales in 2018, you’re probably looking in all the wrong places. Most companies brainstorm a few ‘big ideas’ for the upcoming year, and then write a marketing plan to support 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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How to Make Sense of Your Small Business Financial Statements

Up and Running

How does your business assess its financial strength? No doubt you refer to your income statement (also called profit and loss statement or P&L) and your bank account for the basics. . But the truth is most businesses ignore the most powerful financial tools in the accounting arsenal: the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. These three basic financial statements provide the most comprehensive view of any business.

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Why Startups Love The One-Two Of Engaging, Affordable Quiz Marketing

YoungUpstarts

by Boris Pfeiffer , CEO and Founder of Riddle. Attracting new customers to grow any online business can be tough. But for small businesses, like startups, carrying out an effective marketing strategy is critical to their very survival. It is a sobering truth that nine out of ten startups will fail , and marketing success can often be the key element for any startup’s viability.

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Why Choose An Online MBA Course

YoungUpstarts

About 200 million companies in the world are involved in the day to day business – a simple implication that points to the fact that starting a company isn’t that hard a job. However, succeeding and managing a company is a whole another arena. Management is a crucial task, whether in a business or a 9-5 job. There are certain individuals, known as Master in Business Administration, who have mastery in management.

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Here’s What I Learned From Guest Lecturing At A University

YFS Magazine

It was soul food of the highest order, and I recommend it to anyone with a story to tell and knowledge, experience, and wisdom to share.

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Ask Yourself 3 Questions To Help Find A Financial Advisor You Can Trust

YoungUpstarts

by Chris Hobart, CEO and founder of Hobart Financial Group. When it comes to financial planning, most Americans take a do-it-yourself approach. In fact, various surveys and studies over the years have shown that anywhere from 60 to 70 percent or more don’t have a financial advisor. But does that mean the remaining minority who do hire someone are more confident about what the future holds for them financially?

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How To Lead Generation Z In A ‘Praise-Junkie’ Workplace

YFS Magazine

Every CEO and business leader can follow these simple principles to celebrate their twenty-something employees in a way that creates value.

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Ecommerce Mobile Design Best Practices

The Startup Magazine

Mobile computing has advanced by leaps and bounds. Now the dominant personal computing tool, handheld devices are anticipated to account for some 72.9 percent of ecommerce business worldwide by 2021. With that in mind, designing your ecommerce site to be mobile-friendly is more important than ever. In fact, you’re better off thinking mobile design first and treating desktop as an option these days.

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Monday Motivation: Jack Ma Motivational Speech | Intellipaat

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Don’t try to be the best, be the first. Everybody is unique. Be yourself. The world is full of challenges and opportunities. Opportunities lie in the challenges and the complaints.

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What Can Home Equity Loan/Line of Credit (HELOC) Money Be Used For

The Startup Magazine

Some homeowners are using a very convenient way to secure additional funds that they may need in a certain area of their life, even if they don’t have that money in the bank right now. Home values are increasing in a number of areas of the country, which has made it easier than ever before to tap into a home in order to get a loan or line of credit.

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The Power of Blue in Small Business Branding and Design [10 Tips]

crowdSPRING Blog

My favorite color is blue. And, the odds are pretty good that your favorite color might also be blue. That’s because blue appears to be most people’s favorite color. Three separate studies (more on those below) have revealed blue or blue/green to be the most popular color for both men and women. But, why all this fuss about color? Well, it turns out that color’s impact isn’t limited to the personal sphere.

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On CFIUS Reform: Examining the Essential Elements

Ben's Blog

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner (and former chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association) Scott Kupor to the U.S.

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Facebook’s Libra Launch

thebarefootvc

The big news heading out of last week and into the upcoming week is Facebook’s long-awaited GlobalCoin (or Libra Coin), likely to be a stablecoin pegged to a basket of global currencies. Details of its initial consortium leaked late last week – industry website The Block broke the news of members who are contributing $10M each – these include Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Spotify, Women’s World Banking, Paypal, eBay, Farfetch, Mercado Libre, PayU, Stripe, Lyft and Uber.

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Know the Numbers When Building Content Marketing Plans

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Women are justifiably wary about female-specific content that has no relevance to any gender. Take, for example, the ridiculousness of the “Bic for Her” pen designed for women. Is this really necessary? The truth is that marketing plans are less gendered than some business models would have you believe, and it is more important to look at hard metrics, rather than try to second guess through the lens of a female perspective.

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How to Define Board Engagement

Board Effect

Board engagement is essential to the health of every organization because it enhances the way the board functions. Engaged boards will naturally improve their social dynamics. As boards collaborate, work together and spend time together, they will inherently improve trust within the board. Despite the importance of board engagement in the governance realm, the definition of board engagement remains obscure in many respects.

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Roadblocks vs. Speed bumps

Software By Rob

I co-host a podcast that focuses on bootstrapping software startups. Last week as my co-host and I dug into some struggles he’s running into getting his product to escape velocity, I started saying a phrase I hadn’t used before: It sounds like you’re taking speed bumps and turning them into roadblocks. As a founder you can choose to look at an obstacle as something that keeps you from moving forward (a roadblock), or as something that slows you down for a minute as you continue along your

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What is Microsoft Stream, and how could it benefit your business?

The Startup Magazine

It’s hard to deny the importance that video has taken in the online world. The surging popularity of such video streaming platforms as Netflix and YouTube – each of which are responsible for more than a quarter of global internet traffic, as PCMag UK reports – is evidence enough of this. Still, such services popular with consumers do not quite match the stringent security standards needed for businesses to get on board – helping to make Microsoft Stream an appealing alter

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