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3 Successful Strategies Used By a Reputable Reputation Management Agency

The Startup Magazine

Hiring a reputation management agency is a major step in growing your business. First of all, it means that you actually have the funds to outsource your reputation management tasks. Secondly, it means that you are developing some semblance of an online reputation for your brand. Hopefully, consumers are saying only positive things about your company, but one can only dream. .

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1995 called. Time to revisit your applications strategy. Now!

deal architect

I joined Gartner in 1995. I remember clients would call and say they were getting ready for next-gen applications, but that they felt they had "enough time". The deadline in their case was, of course, the Y2K "wall". By the.

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4 Ways To Give Your Sales Team A Boost In Q4

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. Is your sales team buzzing with great morale, cheerful attitudes, and 100% effort toward meeting all their goals and KPIs? Chances are the answer to that question is “no” — at least, not all the time. Sales is a rigorous occupation full of difficult challenges and stress-inducing interactions, even when everyone is meeting their numbers.

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Re: Oracle OpenWorld

deal architect

I am going to miss going to the event next week. My fault. I had a conflict that cleared up, but not in time for Oracle to register me. I have asked them for streaming info so will catch up.

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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 Start A Car Rental Company: A Quick Guide

YoungUpstarts

The car rental industry is one that is quite competitive. Fortunately, that means that it can also be lucrative for those who work in the industry. There are a lot of steps in the process of starting a car rental business, including typical requirements that are involved in starting any kind of business. Before you can rent your first car, you have to make sure that everything is in place.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

So you’ve started a business: you’ve made a great product, achieved product-market fit and have an extraordinary road map laid out. But to build a scalable business you need more than just product-market fit. There’s more to your business’s success than how great your product is. How your company works operationally, and the financial concepts that help you measure performance, greatly impact the ultimate success of your business.

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Becoming the CEO of Your Own Business with a Virtual Answering Service

The Startup Magazine

If you’ve always dreamed of becoming the Chief Executive Officer of your very own company, you might not be far off in making that dream a reality. It doesn’t matter how small or large your business operations are, the best way to successfully run your own business is by putting together a kick-ass team. This isn’t a one-man show unless of course, you have a very small business that requires very little outside support.

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Why It’s Good To Know The Different Types of Investment Accounts

YoungUpstarts

If you are planning to start investing or have a couple of investments to your name, it’s crucial to have a properly diversified portfolio. Ask any reputable and experienced investor , and they will tell you that one of the most effective strategies in investing is to have the right mix of investments. To diversify your portfolio, you must have a good understanding of the different types of investments.

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5 Essential Outplacement Services for Corporate-Level Employees

The Startup Magazine

Investing in outplacement services for corporate employees is a bit different than investing in outplacement for entry-level or professional job titles. Corporate-level professionals often hold executive leadership roles within a company, and their level of expertise within the industry is often unmatched. An outplacement service is best suited to lead a candidate to their next position.

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5 Brilliant Tips To Increase Email Response Rates

YFS Magazine

Don’t let critics fool you. Email marketing is still a highly effective way to acquire new clients, increase sales, and grow your business.

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ContentATX Focuses on Storytelling and Communication Skills

SiliconHills

Did you know communications is one of the top skills gaps in Austin, according to LinkedIn? And Social Media is also in the top 10. ContentATX, a third annual conference put on by Silicon Hills News, can help close the gap on those skills for creatives, startups, entrepreneurs and other businesses. The fun, day-long conference […]. The post ContentATX Focuses on Storytelling and Communication Skills appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to evaluate the great job offer you just won

David Teten

“The board has met and we’d like to extend you an offer to join the company. We’ll send you all the details via email. We are excited to have you join us!” If you get that phone call, what should you be thinking about? I compiled the best resources I found here. This is relevant for any job offer, but I’m particularly focused on offers to C-level executives and board members: Due Diligence as a Team Member.

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Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Warrillow. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with John Warrillow. He is the founder of The Value Builder System and the author of several books, including Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

I love running growth teams. It’s everything I could want from a job. It directly impacts the company, is fairly autonomous, works great with a few high-caliber folks, and involves a ton of A/B tests. I’ve spent years running these teams—but I don’t know if I’ll ever build one again. I doubt that I’ll even have a growth team at any company I’m managing in the future.

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The emotional roller coaster of entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

In the third of a three part series, serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie talks about the emotional journey of the entrepreneur. I grew up in the 80’s in South Auckland, and that’s when I first heard of the term ‘entrepreneur’ – I thought it meant a French pastry chef. The hero career of choice back then was a white collar professional – you know, a lawyer or accountant.

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How To Successfully Use Outsourcing To Grow Your Law Firm

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It’s no secret that growing a law firm isn’t easy. There’s a lot to juggle including the management of cases, bringing in new clients, marketing, general administration and much more. It’s not just about the qualifications it also entails the general workings of a general business too. This means that making sure you’re firm is running efficiently is precedent to it becoming a thriving practice.

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This isn’t my first rodeo…

Jeff Hilimire

Jokes aside, it takes a lot more than one rodeo to be a great…rodeoer? When I think about my journey so far, I certainly didn’t know what I was doing when running Spunlogic from 1998 – 2008. Ten years. And while we accomplished a lot, I didn’t know how to be a CEO by the end of it. Not really. Then at Engauge, from 2008 – 2013, I was Chief Digital Officer, then President, but after five and a half years, I still didn’t know how to be a CEO.

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Hop On The Cloud

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Whether you work in a small team in an office or based remotely, chances are you’re all sharing a network that allows you to share documents and provides you with a secure mode for sending emails and hopping online. But the traditional network is dying and being replaced with something altogether more flexible and technology reliant: the Cloud. Cloud working makes remote working all the more easy, it allows you the freedom to be away from your office, away from your network and it saves you mone

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Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is John Warrillow. He is the founder of the Value Builder System , a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company, and he’s also the author of the bestselling book, Built to Sell: Cre

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4 Best-Kept Secrets Held by Your Social Media Advertising Firm 

The Startup Magazine

Hoping to boost your company’s marketing strategy through social media? A social media advertising firm can help. Unfortunately, not every company can afford the helpful services offered by these professional agencies. That means you’ll have to develop and implement your own social media advertising strategy on your own. It’s critical to your overall digital marketing strategy.

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How Repurposing Your Old Content Brings New Life and New Traffic

Duct Tape Marketing

How Repurposing Your Old Content Brings New Life and New Traffic written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ve probably generated a lot of content over the years. From blog posts to social media updates to podcasts and webinars, many businesses have shared tons of valuable information with their audience.

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AI is the Big Data of 2019

Feld Thoughts

I attended a Silicon Flatirons Artificial Intelligence Roundtable last week. Over the years Amy and I have sponsored a number of these and I always find the collection of people, the topics, and the conversation to be stimulating and provocative. At the end of the two hours, I was very agitated by the discussion. The Silicon Flatirons roundtable approach is that there are several short topics presented, each followed by a longer discussion.

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SEO Blogging: Crafting the Perfect Post

Women Entrepreneurs Can

With the increasing popularity of e-commerce, you’re going to have to make sure that your small business has a significant presence on the internet. This is the space where a huge percentage of your customers are likely to engage with your brand, look through your goods and services and make purchases or place orders that will ultimately generate profit for you.

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