Thu.Jul 14, 2016

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Keeping Your Customers As Happy As They Deserve To Be

YoungUpstarts

When you have a business to run , it is important that you know the importance of looking after your customers. After all, your customers really are the heart of the business. Without them, there would be little reason for your business to exist at all. Of course, most business owners are aware of the importance of keeping customers happy. However, not all are adept at actually making sure that it happens within their own business.

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Beware the Industry Template Website!

Rembrandt Communications

Without The Right Content, You Lose Sales. Woo Hoo! You started a business and found out that your industry (real estate, tech, health, etc.) has a simple template you can use to create your website. It’s easy, and automated content posts for you. Done. Not so fast. If you use the same tool as everyone […]. The post Beware the Industry Template Website!

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5 Ways To Make Innovation Everybody’s Job

YoungUpstarts

by . When times are tough — and they often are for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — the most innovative thing you can do is figure out a way to keep the operation running at full strength from one day to the next. For instance, in Singapore, sentiments amongst SMBs with regards to the business climate have been on the down over the past few quarters, and the government has been relentlessly pushing businesses to innovate in order to stay ahead.

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11 Resources You Can Use to Grow Your Event Planning Business

Up and Running

Finding solid resources to help you grow your event planning business can be tricky, especially because it can be hard to find information specifically geared toward industry professionals. Sure, there are tons of wedding planning websites out there—but how many of them are actually directed toward professional planners, and not just brides? To help you cut through the clutter, here is a list of 11 excellent resources to help you grow your event planning business.

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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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What You Can Learn From A Census Of Your Industry’s Ecosystem

YoungUpstarts

by Deren Baker, CEO of Jumpshot. Whether you’re starting a new business or launching a new product or service, it’s important to realize that no company functions in isolation. Each company in an industry is interconnected, much like the organisms in one of the many ecosystems on our planet. Other companies working in that same space affect a company’s actions, customers, and products.

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7 Travel Tips To Make Airport Layovers More Productive

YFS Magazine

Whether you’re traveling for business or pleasure, using your layover to tackle some work can help reduce to-do-list-induced stress whenever you finally
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Corporate Innovation's Dirty Little Secret

Babbling VC

There’s a dirty little secret amongst those who now how to run corporate incubators/accelerators/labs and it’s one hardly anyone would openly discuss. The lifespan of these departments is always finite. Some may only make it one or two years. Some may make it to ten years. Nevertheless, none will survive much longer and very few will ever get past five years of existence.

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Should Startups Encourage Employees To Wear Work Uniforms?

YFS Magazine

Although many people associate work uniforms with formal work attire and a strict dress code this isn't always the case.

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Fresh from the SPRING: glamaz0n

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for glamaz0n. Check out more great work on glamaz0n’s profile page. Nicely done, glamaz0n, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: Anise. Fresh from the SPRING: mariaKaz.

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The Master’s Hand

Austin Startup

July 17, 2016: Several conversations this past week about pricing have made that the startup topic for this essay. I recall the Christian… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Remembering why I’m doing this

Jeff Hilimire

I just read this article and it made me pause and really think about why I’m working so hard, and risking so much, at Dragon Army. I want to create something great. I’m so proud of what we accomplished at Spunlogic and Engauge. And if I never have a success again like Spunlogic, well, that would be a bummer but at least I would always know that I did that one great thing.

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6 Ways to Revamp Your PR Budget

Duct Tape Marketing

6 Ways to Revamp Your PR Budget written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit The Blue Diamond Gallery. Positive public relations can put your brand on top and keep it there in the public perception. Here are six ways to revamp your public relations budget and give your brand a boost. In marketing-speak, PR stands for public relations , which is defined as “a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publi

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Does Swearing in Copy Make You More Persuasive?

ConversionXL

Can you remember the last time your parents scolded you for swearing? Throughout childhood, we’re conditioned to believe that swearing is inappropriate and crass. You could offend someone, it makes you seem uneducated, it’s unprofessional in the workplace… the list of reasons we’ve been told not to swear goes on and on. But how bad is swearing, really ?

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How Crowdsourcing Can Function as Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

When we talk about crowdsourcing, a lot of emphasis is placed on the immediate value associated with the approach. You get a great deal of ideas at a reasonable price, freeing up resources internally to focus on issues where your organization already has talent. But there’s another benefit to crowdsourcing that doesn’t get discussed often enough: the marketing value in promoting your contest. .

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A World Divided… By Tech

Austin Startup

I contend that this is the single most important graph in the world circa 2008 - 2020: Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

I’ve cosigned a letter elaborating why a Trump Presidency would be devastating for America’s innovation. Along with 150 of my tech industry colleagues, this collaborative effort identifies some of the ways we believe Trump’s rhetoric and policy beliefs put the American economy at risk. . My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign.

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

I’ve cosigned a letter elaborating why a Trump Presidency would be devastating for America’s innovation. Along with 150 of my tech industry colleagues, this collaborative effort identifies some of the ways we believe Trump’s rhetoric and policy beliefs put the American economy at risk. . My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign.