Wed.Dec 28, 2016

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10 Mindset Checks Before You Start A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Making the decision to start your own business is a major commitment, with huge implications for skills and lifestyle. Yet there is no standardized testing or certification required or available anywhere to help you decide if you are a good fit for entrepreneurship, or founding a business is right for you. An MBA or other academic credentials just don’t do it.

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Stay Safe At Work With These Unmissable Office Safety And Security Tips

YoungUpstarts

It’s important that your company’s office space is safe and secure for a number of reasons. Firstly, it ensures that all your employees are safe and comfortable during their working day. Secondly, it also ensures that all of your secure data and information is secure at all times and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. However, even though office security is extremely important, it is usually at the back of many business owners’ minds.

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5 Powerful Ways To Improve Sales Year-Over-Year

YFS Magazine

When it comes to sales, your bottom line is defined by how well you hit the sales process on the head. It isn’t rocket science.

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[ADV] Always Select A SEO Service With An Honest Outlook

YoungUpstarts

Search Engine Optimization is not a linear task, so to say. It does not follow the usual flowchart one would pursue with traditional marketing methods, such as in print, radio, banners, or TV advertising. In all these other mediums, the sponsor pays a certain designated amount for the desired results displayed within the assigned time frame. Say, you want to run a TV advert.

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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 A Reputation Strategy Can Help You Attract Ideal Clients

YFS Magazine

These steps to attract, connect and keep the clients you need are not time intensive or expensive to incorporate into your business.

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How To Get Started In The Moving Business

YoungUpstarts

Setting up any kind of professional enterprise can be quite the challenge in this day and age. With high levels of competition across the board, it takes a lot to stand out from the crowd and earn your place in the customer’s heart. If you’re passionate about the idea of helping people in their time of need, however, starting a moving company can be an attractive prospect.

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Ten Things You Can Do By December 31st To Cut Your 2016 Tax Bill

YoungUpstarts

by Barbara Weltman, spokesperson for “ J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax Professional Edition 2017 “ The holiday season is in full swing, and you’re probably in a last-minute-gift-buying, party-planning frenzy right now. The last thing on your mind? Taxes. For most people, sparing a thought for the upcoming tax season is the ultimate “bah humbug.” But this mindset could cost you big when April 15th rolls around.

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Maximize Your Impact

Mike Michalowicz

It’s about passion. It is having a love for what you do. It is about giving a s**t. I met a woman who is a dolphin trainer. She couldn’t stop gushing about how amazing her work is. Communicating with dolphins. Learning their personalities. Connecting. The stories she shared were nothing short of remarkable. And by the time we were done talking, I wanted to experience, even just for a moment, what she does.

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2017 will be big year for freelance economy

BeyondVC

When Microsoft announced the purchase of LinkedIn an overlooked element of the story was how they planned to give users the ability to find experts while inside of all office apps. Imagine being in powerpoint and having a sidebar to find expert designers who are connected to you for hire or sitting inside of Microsoft word and looking for some editing help from a contact of yours.

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Maximize Your Impact

Mike Michalowicz

It’s about passion. It is having a love for what you do. It is about giving a s**t. I met a woman who is a dolphin trainer. She couldn’t stop gushing about how amazing her work is. Communicating with dolphins. Learning their personalities. Connecting. The stories she shared were nothing short of remarkable. And by the time we were done talking, I wanted to experience, even just for a moment, what she does.

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Shifting Your Mindset for Business Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Shifting Your Mindset for Business Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Michael E. Gerber. As any long time reader of mine knows, I’m into systems. Systems are what set a business apart from a job and systems are the thing that will set you free and enable you to someday sell your business should you choose to do so.

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