Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Think back to a sales situation with a friend of a friend, one where you started with a huge trust advantage: how much smoother and faster was the process? What if you could replicate that dynamic on a much larger digital scale? Your friends of friends are not hiding in distant corners of the world, in fact, they’re probably right in front of you, and you can take advantage of warm connections withou

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

by Jeff Van Gulick , Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines Practice Leader, HUB International. Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. But, these transactions can also be the impetus for legal recourse – a significant liability for the company’s directors and officers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

One of the biggest challenges in changing your lifestyle from an employee to starting your own business, is focusing on the right ownership elements, versus having a boss who sets the business goals, and provides performance feedback. Most entrepreneurs relish being their own boss, but find the transition to “ownership thinking” to be more difficult than anticipated.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

by Diane Longmoor, Director of User Experience and a Partner at Fell Swoop. So, your organization is about to design a new product, feature or service: a design ideation workshop is a great way to generate lots of ideas early in the process, bring your project team along and set direction. Design workshops have been in the UX toolkit for some time now and are an important part of the design process.

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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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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Two months ago, we published our second eBook, Understanding Social Platforms. In it, we discuss the dynamics of each social platform type: messaging, private networks, public networks, enterprise networks, and communities. We also cover important topics for social platform businesses like metrics, exits, valuations, and our outlook for future opportunities in social.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Becoming a successful freelancer is liberating. Here are four smart ways to get the word out about your freelancing services. This article How To Find Success And Clients As A Freelancer appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

South by Southwest is a great place for a startup or even an established company to get some traction. It doesn’t matter if you have a big budget or a low budget, there are all kinds of ways to stand out from the crowd at South by. Some of them require a lot of advance […] The post How to Get Your Company Noticed at SXSW Interactive appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

When I was a kid, I thought I would grow up and be a veterinarian or an astronaut, even though I am terrified of flying. Starting my own… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Why You Should Put Profit First written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Michalowicz. Profit? What the heck is that? I’m just working for a salary. Unfortunately, that’s the problem with many businesses. When profit isn’t the goal there generally isn’t any profit and like so many things all that comes in used up.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

As someone who produces images, both for companies and individuals in the tech and corporate business world, I’ve been harping about this… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Commerce businesses are notoriously difficult for a number of reasons. Multiples in this category are usually pretty low, due to low margins, capital intensity, and competitive rivalry. Also, Amazon has made it such that consumers are accustomed to fast, free shipping, great service, free returns, and other things that are super costly to deliver on (and certainly tough to deliver on better than Amazon).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

After a roller coaster year in 2016, JamFeed is back with new updated products, a new developer, and a new ticket giveaway platform Free… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Retention is the key to building a great business. When your core product experience brings your users back time and time again, you gain some incredible advantages. You spend less on acquisition, learn from your users faster, and start building a community through word of mouth and referrals. If you can’t retain your users, you’re going to spend more on acquisition while not growing as quickly.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Or should we keep business away from pleasure? Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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