Mon.Jan 29, 2018

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6 Tips For Growing Your Contractor Business

YoungUpstarts

Looking to grow your contractor business? Whether you have plans to stay small or scale your business over time, it’s important to find effective ways to bring in new customers. Here are 6 tips for growing your business. 1. Perform an Internal Review. Start by performing an internal review of your company. There are a few key areas you want to focus on: Financial stability.

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8 Ways To Nurture New Venture Stock Into A Goldmine

Startup Professionals Musings

I’ll never forget that great sense of excitement I felt when I incorporated my first business, and realized that I was now the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock. Of course, initially these founder’s shares were worth essentially nothing, but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to grasp the possibilities. It’s great motivation for every entrepreneur to get that value up quickly.

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3 Business Services To Improve Timeliness And Efficiency

YoungUpstarts

In order to run a successful business, there are many things that need to be kept in mind. The product or service that is being sold to customers needs to be of the highest quality possible, but the business cannot stop there. In addition to making sure that they are satisfying their customers, the business also needs to make sure that the logistics of the company are running well.

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Why ‘all hands’ customer support makes zero sense

The Next Web

In the software world and perhaps beyond, it has become increasingly popular to implement an “all hands” approach to customer support. The thinking goes that if everyone on a team spends some time at the support desk engaging with customers and solving their problems they will better understand how the customer uses the product and what they’re actually trying to accomplish.

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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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Top Digital Marketing Strategies For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Online marketing is essential for businesses of all sizes. But digital marketing is critical especially for startups because the world wide web offers the opportunity to get in front of more people while using less budget. Leveraging various online marketing strategies is critical to an overall successful campaign. A strong online presence will help your brand by creating awareness, engagement with leads and customers, converting more buyers, and word-of-mouth sharing.

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4 Smart Ways Take Your Business From Good to Great

YFS Magazine

It wasn’t until I asked myself if I was successful that I was able to realize all the great things our company could still accomplish.

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4 Ways To Improve Social Media Security And Protect Your Brand

YFS Magazine

With ever-increasing returns on investment in the social media space, what could go wrong? In a word: everything.

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[Interview] Waseem Malleye, International Investment and Asset Management Executive

YoungUpstarts

In 2003, four months out of college and still without a satisfactory job, Waseem Malleye took a step anyone who has ever been frustrated in attempts to get their career started can appreciate. He took control of his destiny. He stood on the busiest corner in Toronto’s financial district, holding a sign that touted his credentials: “Recent U of T grad.

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How to Form a LLC

Up and Running

You have a number of different options when it comes to structuring your business. You might want to consider a limited liability company, or an LLC, because in some ways you get the best of both worlds: You get the benefit of personal liability protection, as you would with a corporation. You keep things simple with a business that’s easier to run, similar to a partnership or sole proprietorship (for example, you aren’t required to file corporate taxes).

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The Lost Art Of The Cold Call

YoungUpstarts

by Tom McMakin, author of “ How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services “. The Blue Devils were down. Duke would either advance to the Final Four or get washed out of March Madness. With less than a minute to go, they hit a three-point shot and were up again. The crowd went crazy. Stephanie Cole and her husband Dave were at home on the edge of the sofa shouting at the TV.

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Adele and Everything After

Feld Thoughts

Long Haul Films is the video production company that does our videos like Bored Meetings , Worst of Times , and I’m a VC. We are huge fans of Melissa and Tom. They have a new documentary coming out called Adele and Everything After. It is an award-winning documentary about Marty, a woman with an untreatable heart condition that made her pass out every day, and Adele, one of the world’s first cardiac alert service dogs.

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The 5 Personality Traits You Need To Be A Successful Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

At some point most people will dream about becoming an entrepreneur. After all, the idea of being your own boss and setting your own hours is appealing ! In fact, statistics show that in the US alone there were 8,751,000 self-employed people by the end of 2016! Unfortunately statistics also show that nearly half of these will fail within the first four years.

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Top 10 Best CRMs for Small Businesses in 2018

crowdSPRING Blog

Customers are the lifeblood of every business. But as a business grows, managing growth and organizing information becomes increasingly more difficult. What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. Not every business owner is prepared for their business to grow. But if you want your business to succeed, you must evolve the way you manage your business to match the growth of the business.

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Corporate Advisor and Lecturer Helping Connect Manufacturers to End Users

Hearpreneur

Women in business are on the rise. Soulaima Gourani is a lecturer, corporate advisor, and author. In 2012 she was announced as one of the Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum. In 2013 she was announced as one of the greatest thinkers in the Nordic by Nordic Business Forum. And in 2014 chosen as one of the “40 under 40” European young leaders.

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Remembering old times

Jeff Hilimire

Last week I was straightening up my home office and I noticed an old business card from my very first company, NBN Designs, tacked to the wall. And then this past weekend I was out in Snellville and realized I was about to drive past our first official office (the first “office” was our dorm room at UNC-Charlotte and our second “office” was my mother’s basement.

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Monday Motivation: Elon Musk – Starting a Company [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. If you’re creating a company or joining a great company, the most important thing is to attract great people. Focus on signal over noise. Are these efforts resulting in a better product or service? Every waking hour. It’s important to like whatever you’re doing.

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