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5 Important Lessons Your Small Business Should Learn From Successful Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

Image courtesy of Flickr. When it comes to brand recognition, companies like Kleenex and Coke have cracked the code. With millions of Americans calling their tissues “Kleenex” and their sodas “Cokes,” these brand names have become synonymous for the products they sell. Strong brand recognition is key to building loyal customer relationships.

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Server Rooms And The Importance Of Staying Cool

YoungUpstarts

Professionals working with computers are constantly aware of the challenges associated with maintaining these servers and keeping them cool at all times. Sometimes even the most experienced professionals have a hard time. This was once a situation that only a fraction of professionals dealt with, but today the small business has had technology thrust upon them in a short amount of time.

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5 Important Lessons Your Small Business Should Learn From Successful Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

Image courtesy of Flickr. When it comes to brand recognition, companies like Kleenex and Coke have cracked the code. With millions of Americans calling their tissues “Kleenex” and their sodas “Cokes,” these brand names have become synonymous for the products they sell. Strong brand recognition is key to building loyal customer relationships.

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7 Tips On Following The Triple Bottom Line To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s always been tough to start a new business, even when the bottom line was just making a profit to stay alive. A few years ago, a second focus of sustainability (“green”) was added as a requirement for respectability. Now I almost always hear a third mandate - social responsibility. Entrepreneurs are now measured against the “triple bottom line” (TBL or 3BL) of people, planet, and profit.

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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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Five Key Tasks A Small Business Owner Should Never Delegate — And What Tasks They Should

YoungUpstarts

by Rich Allen, author of “ The Ultimate Business Tune Up: A Simple Yet Powerful Business Model That Will Transform the Lives of Small Business Owners “. One of the key challenges facing Small Business Owners (SBOs) is what to delegate and what to manage. SBOs are often used to covering all the bases — if you started your company on a dream and a shoestring, it’s hard to let go of the day-to-day details.

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5 Habits That Kill Your Productivity

YFS Magazine

You may have picked up a few habits that make productivity an uphill battle. Here's a list of 5 common habits to break asap and boost your productivity.

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How To Measure Your Content Marketing For Better Results

Rembrandt Communications

Discover content marketing strategy, SEO , B2B copywriting, and PR tips here from Melanie Rembrandt. 3 Steps to Make the Most of Your Copywriting Now! Are you measuring your content marketing results? If not, you waste time and effort. Many new, small business owners come to me with blogs, emails, success stories, and more that follow an editorial calendar.

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5 Easy Steps To Find Dropshipping Wholesalers

YoungUpstarts

Finding a great wholesale supplier is one of the crucial needs you must fill to enjoy substantial success with your dropshipping business. Why is this so? Even though you’re not directly involved in order fulfillment; your supplier does. They receive your orders, package them, and ship to your customers. They’re an important part of your online business.

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The Ins and Outs of Instagram

Mike Michalowicz

Businesses are blowing up on Instagram. All you have to do is open the app to find public figures and startup companies boasting hundreds of thousands of followers. And while Facebook and Twitter still play important roles in advertising, Instagram is where the young people are at, with 59% of its users falling within the 18-29 age category. So what’s the trick?

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3 startups helping the medical industry go remote

The Startup Magazine

With the internet integrally involved in nearly every aspects of our lives, it only follows that we are seeing a burgeoning online medical service industry. Startups have been rethinking the medical industry to increase efficiency and offer online options as essential as online banking, shopping, and entertainment have become in the last few years. Booking appointments with doctors, managing billing and finances, waiting endless hours at a doctor’s office and repeating the process whenever

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Questions to Ask

ithacaVC

Sometimes it is GREAT to have a playbook. A coach loves a playbook. A teacher loves a playbook. A general contractor loves a playbook. Well, for investors, a playbook is tricky because every investment is different. No exceptions. Never will all the key factors be the same: founders, market, product, scalability, regulatory environment, IP protection, global market forces, etc.

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AI-powered SEO startup helps businesses stand above the crowd

The Startup Magazine

The colossal size of the internet can make standing out difficult for even the most unique businesses out there. Though studies have shown that between 70-80% of people research a company online before visiting the small business or making a purchase with them, only 25% of small businesses are investing in online marketing. One company that understands the importance of a visible online presence is Ranksense – – an SEO company that helps business get found in a sea of websites compe

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Be Like Ray Kroc? Or Not?

Growthink Blog

Last week I saw the movie " The Founder ," which details which the amazing story of Ray Kroc and the early days of the McDonald's restaurant chain. Anyone that loves business and entrepreneurship should see this movie, as it paints in beautiful relief one of the most iconic business success stories of all-time. It starts with the simple, startling and SO inspirational fact that Ray Kroc - played masterfully in the movie by actor Michael Keaton - first became involved with McDonalds at the ripe,

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Tomorrow: City Council to consider delivery bots

Austin Startup

Tomorrow, Austin City Council will consider a resolution to approve a pilot project for autonomous delivery bots. ATA is asking you to contact your Council Member to voice support for this innovative means of solving last mile challenges in a sustainable, forward-thinking way. Find your Council Member The resolution requires the “personal delivery devices” to: only operate on City of Austin owned sidewalks and crosswalks; weigh no more than 300 pounds, excluding cargo; have a maximum speed of 10

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Dragon Army’s 4 year anniversary

Jeff Hilimire

August 2017 marks Dragon Army’s four year anniversary, which I simply can’t believe. It’s amazing to me how much has changed with this company in four short years! We had our company meeting this morning – hence the pic above – and I went over the history of the company with the team: August 2013 – Founded Dragon Army as a mobile game and app studio.

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The Success Story of The Biggest Online Payment System–PayPal [INFOGRAPHIC]

Hearpreneur

This infographic from Play-N-Pay focuses on the story of Paypal and how it’s founders built the company into the success that it is today.

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Improve Your Business by Getting the Most Out of Your Data

Duct Tape Marketing

Improve Your Business by Getting the Most Out of Your Data written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeff Sauer. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jeff Sauer. He is a digital marketing speaker, professor, and Google Analytics consultant. He and I discuss how businesses that track and use data to get better, succeed.

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How to Use Your Business Plan to Create an Awesome Company Name

Up and Running

Everyone knows that a business name is important. It is the single most used aspect of your future brand. Ideally, yours will be mentioned by reporters, shared by referrals, and hopefully remembered by customers when the need for your solution arises. A great name like PayPal can introduce your company, hinting at what makes it unique and interesting.

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Don’t be too proud to copy

VC Cafe

It would be hard to compete with Google on search, Facebook on social networking and Amazon on ecommerce. Continue Reading → This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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Ask the Users

Austin Startup

TL;DR : Blogs, social media, and public endorsements are all noisy, and often false, signals about a person’s real reputation in the market. The only way to get the truth is to “ask the users,” and in a way that allows them to speak the truth without negative repercussions. I’m going to keep this post as simple as possible, because the message, though extremely important and often lost on people, is quite simple.