Thu.Mar 01, 2018

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4 Major Challenges Of Being Your Own Boss (And How To Overcome Them)

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Being your own boss is living “The Dream,” right? But, like anything truly worth doing, being your own boss comes with its own set of unique challenges. The proverbial “buck” stops with you. There is no manager to help you when things get tough. No kindly senior supervisor with years of experience and wisdom to guide you.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

It’s here! The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so here are some of my picks that might stand out from the crowd. Did I miss something? Leave it in the comments! Surrender to Serendipity My general rule of thumb is to make a big calendar with everything I could possibly want to do on it and then in the moment do whichever of the thi

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10 Big Ideas For Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. What are your plans for 2018? It’s well underway by now – hopefully you’ve got a few of them implemented already. But if there’s still any room in your calendar, consider making some time for the ideas below. Some of these may not fully hit in 2018, but it’s not too soon to get started with them.

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5 Ways Texting Can Grow Your Company in 2018

Transformify

If growth and improved communication are among your company's goals in 2018, then you may want to consider your HR strategies and methods. The HR department is responsible for much of the basic communication with employees from the very start of their professional journey with your company. From training to answering policy questions, HR needs to disseminate mundane information to employees in a fast and memorable way.

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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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5 Young People Making Waves In Cryptocurrency

YoungUpstarts

Cryptocurrencies threaten to upend the financial paradigm we’ve known since birth, and for many entrepreneurs, investors, and believers, the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital currencies have become gateways to vast swathes of wealth and influence. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that new generations of young, tech-savvy investors and dreamers have taken to heart the potential of blockchain technology – and at times have made both significant academic and financial d

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Accounting Professionals, You are Wasting Your Time on LinkedIn

Mike Michalowicz

If you are like me, you are wasting your time on LinkedIn. At least I used to. A year ago, I thought I had the social media platform down pat. I had over 500+ connections, a professional profile picture and my detailed professional resume posted. I had sprinkled keywords around and “liked” every article I could. I followed influential people, joined groups and then sat back just a little impressed with myself.

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6 Apps To Improve Your Company Culture

YFS Magazine

Objective insights can really get your workplace out of an? engagement rut. It may not happen overnight, but with the right approach—and some help from technology—you can build a company culture people? love!

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Please learn this: “Noses in; fingers out!”

Berkonomics

Many of us have someone who reports directly to us and who supervises others in return. If that fits, well then, this one is for you. And it is one of the most important lessons you can learn as a manager or board member of a company or a non-profit enterprise. I first heard this expression in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago.

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Metabolizing Stress and Anxiety

Feld Thoughts

I woke up late this morning with a vivid dream in my head. I had shown up at my new house on the first morning of our occupancy. There were all kinds of people running around including a dozen schoolkids playing red devil on the patio. I didn’t have any clothes unpacked yet except some running shorts that I didn’t like and an old t-shirt.

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How to increase your longevity and health span

ConversionXL

Want to live longer, be there for your grand kids? But not just live longer, but also be able and strong? Here’s how: The post How to increase your longevity and health span appeared first on CXL.

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Tips for Starting a Successful Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Tips for Starting a Successful Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Colleen DeBaise. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Colleen DeBaise. She is a business journalist, author, podcast host at The Story Exchange , and contributing editor at Inc.

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Personal development advice for people with kids

ConversionXL

Most of the personal development advice there assumes you have no kids. I don’t want to hear your advice until I know how much time do you spend with your kids. The post Personal development advice for people with kids appeared first on CXL.

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Leaders: Only do what only you can do

Jeff Hilimire

To follow up on my post last week, where I referenced the great advice I received from Doug Shipman for leaders to resist picking up the oar , I wanted to share another anecdote that was shared with me by a friend a while back: “Only do what only you can do” If you’re leading a group of people, one of the best things you can do is figure out what it is that only you can do, and then try hard to make that what you spend most of your time on.

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How to de-silofy your data and kickstart hyper-personalization

ConversionXL

You have your CRM, web analytics, email marketing tool, payment processors, survey tools and so on – but they don’t talk to each other. How to finally get over that and start doing data-driven marketing for real? The post How to de-silofy your data and kickstart hyper-personalization appeared first on CXL.

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Transcript of Tips for Starting a Successful Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Tips for Starting a Successful Business 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 Colleen DeBaise. She is a business journalist and author and a contributing editor at Inc and formerly was the small business editor at The Wall Street Journal.

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Getting a lot of emails? Responding to them?

ConversionXL

If replying to emails takes too much of your time, you need to change the way you operate. The post Getting a lot of emails? Responding to them? appeared first on CXL.

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A Story About Fear, Shame, Expectations and Money: My Investment in The Financial Gym

This is going to be BIG.

Today, I can finally announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures' investment in The Financial Gym 's $1.8mm seed round, which I led, alongside Alpine Meridian, Secocha Ventures and several high ranking execs from the finance world. What's the Financial Gym? It's a membership based space and service where you can work with a Certified Financial Trainer 1:1 to get financially healthy.

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How to Make More Time for Friends and Exercise

ConversionXL

We all lead busy lives (especially if you have small kids). So how do you make more time to see friends? How do you make more time for working out? Hence the need for life optimization. Here’s one way to do it. The post How to Make More Time for Friends and Exercise appeared first on CXL.

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Nepotism is how the world still works

ConversionXL

Nepotism is not a thing of a distant, dark past. All the best jobs and deals are given to friends and family. It’s how the world still works for the most part. Cultivate your nepotism opportunities. Use it whenever you can. The post Nepotism is how the world still works appeared first on CXL.

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Top trends for 2018? Depends where you are in the “knowledge gap”

ConversionXL

People often ask me: what are the top marketing trends for 2018 and beyond? What should you focus on? The answer really depends on where you’re at. Here’s my take on it. The post Top trends for 2018? Depends where you are in the “knowledge gap” appeared first on CXL.