Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2017

6 Tactics for Turning Your Website into a Lead Generating Machine written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Photo Credit: Shutterstock. Anybody can create a website, but not everybody can create a conversion machine. Your website should be a mechanism in your business that allows you to convert prospective visitors into interested leads who will later become customers and advocates for the products and services that you sell.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2017

Have you ever felt like you’ve built a great relationship with an email address instead of a person? With the raw scale of connections at our fingertips, we can occasionally become victims of our own technological advances. When you are networking with dozens, maybe even hundreds of contacts at a time, how do you keep your networking connections meaningful?

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 5, 2017

From the mailbag: “Related to your book, quick question. what tools do you recommend (if any) to effectively talk to your customers and get feedback from customers once launched and scaling up (vs. the more personal versions you can afford to do early on)?” Every growing team has this question. The main mistake is thinking of “scale” in terms or reaching more customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2017

As the new year starts, we’re being inundated with the usual horror stories about failing economies and collapsing industries, all of which make business owners around the world worry about the future. But you’ve been working in construction for long enough to know the deal. The industry is notoriously volatile, with business prospects ebbing and flowing on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis, and there’s absolutely no doubt in your mind that 2017 will be exactly the same.

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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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ConversionXL

JANUARY 5, 2017

Discoverability and findability are two important terms that optimizers should be familiar with. Discoverability is when you find the perfect book, even though you were not necessarily looking for it. Findability is when you find the exact book you were looking for, even if all you knew about it was the author’s last name. eCommerce product filtering, when done right, can solve both issues.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2017

by Yunha Kim, founder of Simple Habit. Just one week of brief daily meditation has been found to produce significant improvements in attention, energy, and stress. Simple Habit is aimed at helping people make mindfulness a part of their daily routine by offering a variety of 5-minute meditations personalized for all kinds of life situations. Here are six ways meditation can improve your personal and professional life: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2017

Every entrepreneur envisions the day when they can be fully self-sufficient and rely only on their own businesses for income and prosperity. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case starting out, and a day job or regular career is often necessary to keep the bills paid and provide startup capital. However, not all careers are equal and some are more suited for aspiring entrepreneurs than others.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2017

Make sure your contracts are air-tight and leave little scope for exploitation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2017

What is your first thought when you think business growth? Well, most leaders think of market shares and office spaces, while your first thought should be your team. The dream-team will deliver a fair share of the market share and even decide when you move to new, expansive offices. If you put your employees first and let them feel treasured, they will treat their job as passion, as opposed to a 9-5 that pays the bills.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2017

Get your investments right and you will reap the rewards.

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 5, 2017

In high school, one of the teachers who I respected a lot (she was also feared by a lot of my peers for being a strict disciplinarian) pulled me aside one day and suggested that I should really consider studying Biology and consider medicine as a future. Although my thinking back then as a 15 year old was not as developed, my heart was set on studying Computer Science and building things.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2017

Talent, not money is the great equalizer for VC access. Anyone who can help a founder hire is going to get into a round. — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) January 3, 2017. How much faster would a startup progress if they were able to fill each new open role with a better-than-thought-possible hire in a quarter of the time they expected the search to take?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 5, 2017 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2017

Everyone has a junk drawer. Or two. Or ten. One of mine is to the left. So does every company. It’s now often referred to as “Labs” (as an homage to the infamous Google Labs which was disbanded in 2011.). We’ve seen a lot of companies spin up a Labs as a way to try to create new products. In most cases, after about a year, it’s a junk drawer of random s**t.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 5, 2017

January 5, 2017: After a long Holiday break, it’s not easy this week to get back in gear for full-contact startup action. However, the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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