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5 Terrible Social Media Fails in 2016 That You Must Avoid

Brandanew

Brands are closer to their audience with the help of social media. They experiment and try various creative styles to win hearts. But quite often ideas may end up in a paradox when the implementation goes awry. Social media fails can prove to be costly and brands may have to balance a tricky situation to regain their position. It takes many campaigns, much brainstorming and creative effort to nurture and build a brand cult, but it takes just one misstep to offend people.

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A Tale of Two Wildly Divergent Emotions

deal architect

Dennis Howlett posted this weekend “The robots are coming and we are royally screwed”. In contrast, ZDNet ran my column “Automation is coming, but it'll take longer than you'll think (and won't take your job)” The timing of the columns.

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How To Create Customer Value And Profit To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Every startup needs to start with an honest assessment of how they provide customer value, and how that translates into a sustainable business return for stakeholders and growth.

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Tools That Are Going To Help You Run A More Efficient Online Business

YoungUpstarts

Any business is a juggling act of responsibilities. It’s easy to feel like you don’t have enough man-hours and effort to tackle all the different tasks that need to get done. However, in a lot of cases, that’s just not true. Instead, you need to look at how you tackle those tasks and what can help you get more done in the same amount of time. Here, we’re going to look at tools online businesses can use to run more efficiently: Your retail options.

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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 Sound Persuasive While Speaking In Public

YFS Magazine

If you would like people to accept your point of view, you need to sound persuasively anytime and anywhere. 
Fortunately, it is easy to learn.

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The Biggest Obstacles Facing The Modern Construction Industry

YoungUpstarts

It’s 2016, and there have certainly been worse times to run a construction business. The massive recession we saw in the late noughties has turned around, and projects are becoming more accessible and more profitable to contractors of all niches and professional backgrounds. Although things have certainly started to pick up, there are still many significant challenges facing construction businesses today.

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Here’s How You Approach A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Startups seem to be all the rage today. As soon as someone as an idea for an app or a business, the first reaction is to start a “startup”. This is usually means heading straight for Silicon Valley and spending thousands on rent and office supplies before validating the business idea. As you can tell, that approach never ends well. The first key in starting a start up is deciding your goals.

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NarrativeDX: Transparent Patient Experience in Real Time

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News If you have a bad experience at a hospital—and just having to go to the hospital is often a bad experience—you may write a letter of complaint, post something in social media or blast the hospital on your patient survey. And there’s a good chance that if […] The post NarrativeDX: Transparent Patient Experience in Real Time appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Ways Content Marketing Can Transform Your Business

YFS Magazine

Here are five benefits any business can get from a strong content marketing program.

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Think Small

Austin Startup

Startups are hard. Wearing many hats requires excellent time management, keeping team morale up in the face of likely failure is a task… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Why Startups Should Spend More Money On SEO And SMM

YoungUpstarts

There are a few critical things that startups should do if the goal is business longevity. These few things are: Prioritizing investments. Learning from every source possible and getting feedback too. Having passion for the business. Spending on SEO and SMM. SEO and SMM can also prove to be extremely cost effective and that is one of the reasons why startups, especially, should come up with robust strategies for the same.

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Can A Hoodie Increase Brand Equity?

crowdSPRING Blog

Image credit: Twitch. In 2014, video streaming platform Twitch announced that they were launching their online store with one product: a purple zip-up hoodie with the Twitch logo on the left chest. To those outside the gaming world, it was just another hoodie. To attendees of gaming conventions and tournaments, it was a chance to own a benchmark of gaming exclusivity.

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Episode 113: Foods to make you stronger, faster, smarter with Chef Bailey Ruskus

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we interview Chef Bailey Ruskus, or Chef Bai. She shares the foods to help make you stronger, faster, and smarter. Learn about the foods you should be eating, how you should be eating them, and short cuts to be eating super well, super easily. Because let’s face it, when you’re stronger, faster, smarter, you become more profitable.

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Can A Hoodie Increase Brand Equity?

crowdSPRING Blog

Image credit: Twitch. In 2014, video streaming platform Twitch announced that they were launching their online store with one product: a purple zip-up hoodie with the Twitch logo on the left chest. To those outside the gaming world, it was just another hoodie. To attendees of gaming conventions and tournaments, it was a chance to own a benchmark of gaming exclusivity.

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A 26-year-old Marine Corps Vet has a plan to liberate Trump’s tax returns. Let’s help him succeed!

Reid Hoffman

In 2012, Donald Trump called President Obama “the least transparent president in the history of this country.”. Then he offered to donate $5 million to charity if President Obama would release “his college records and applications” and his “passport applications and records.”. Now, in 2016, Trump is facing a similar challenge from a 26-year-old Marine Corps veteran named Pete Kiernan. […].

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Design Lessons from a Pizza Craving

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s just about lunchtime around Chicago, which means our minds are, inevitably, turning to food. Lots of food. Glorious food. And for this particular crowdSPRINGer, pizza is sounding pretty good right now. But because we tend to think a lot about design at crowdSPRING (duh), I found my mind wandering to random design questions related to pizza.

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Design Lessons from a Pizza Craving

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s just about lunchtime around Chicago, which means our minds are, inevitably, turning to food. Lots of food. Glorious food. And for this particular crowdSPRINGer, pizza is sounding pretty good right now. But because we tend to think a lot about design at crowdSPRING (duh), I found my mind wandering to random design questions related to pizza.

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