Thu.Oct 29, 2020

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Understanding The Three Factors of Franchise Success: Circumstances, Operations, And Humanity

YoungUpstarts

by Scott Greenberg, author of “ The Wealthy Franchisee: Game-Changing Steps to Becoming a Thriving Franchise Superstar “ During the 10 years I ran my Edible Arrangements franchises, I spent a lot of time reflecting on my stores’ performance. I monitored my numbers. I analyzed the market. I constantly checked in with my employees. I wanted to understand everything impacting my business.

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Strap Technologies Prepares For New Round of Growth With New Technology Officer: Benjamin Eynon

Austin Startup

Strap Technologies is on a mission to become the world’s first substitute for the white cane. Strap Technologies has announced that Benjamin Eynon will join the rapidly expanding Strap team. Eynon will serve as a Technology Officer overseeing software development of Strap, a state-of-the-art wearable device that enables blind people to detect any type of obstacle and notify them of possible collisions.

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The Analyst Cam: Workday VIBE

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Barbry McGann, Executive Director, Office of the HRO at Workday presented on their.

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Is Working At A Startup Right For You?

YoungUpstarts

If you are considering taking a job at a startup, there are several things to keep in mind. It is often a particular personality type that thrives in the startup environment, so you may want to determine if it sounds like something you would enjoy. While startups can be a great way to get experience fast, they can also be a recipe for burnout. Many people find they prefer the more predictable, if slightly duller, aspect of traditional employment.

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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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Are you referable?

Mike Michalowicz

These days, one of the best business strategies is to be referable. Are you? Find out when Mike talks with Michael Roderick, CEO Small Pond Enterprises on the latest Mike Up In Your Business podcast episode. If you think your referability game needs an upgrade, listen up and learn from a pro. This is what Michael does. Small Pond ??helps thoughtful givers become thought leaders.

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2 Things Relationships Are Built On

Start Up Blog

All relationships are built on two things: frequency and proximity. It’s obvious, in hindsight. If you consider the strongest relationships in your life, you’ll find these two elements feature strongly. Frequency – how often you interact. Proximity – how physically close you are. Your relationship becomes tighter the more frequently you interact and the closer you are physically.

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5 Critical On-Page SEO Factors That Impact Your Ranking

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Critical On-Page SEO Factors That Impact Your Ranking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Having high visibility in a search engine’s organic results is critical to your business’ online success. . People use search engines to find solutions to their problems. And if your product or service isn’t visibly ranking in search as a solution to their problem, that’s a massive missed opportunity for your business.

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How to Make Email Your Best Customer Service Tool — Outpost Webinar

Up and Running

Make Email Your Best Customer Service Tool. In 2020, your organization can no longer rely on “good enough” customer service. Your customers now expect an email response time of one hour, with 15 minutes representing world-class service. But don’t worry — no matter what your current email response time is, there are solutions to meet customer expectations in a way that works best for your business.

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How to View Customers More Like Members

Duct Tape Marketing

How to View Customers More Like Members written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m talking about a new book I’m working on. This book will be out in the fall of 2021 but I’m already deep in working on it. One of the major themes in the book is about how so many small businesses have been forced to pivot or change.

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Impeccable Website Design Helps Forge a Strong Identity

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It’s no secret that a strong web presence is hugely important to any business. Statistics suggest that 84% of off-line purchases involve web-based research before the sale. Even if you don’t sell directly from your website, having an online presence is essential to success. More than 3.5 billion Google searches are made every day. In today’s digital business landscape, every company needs a website that acts as a virtual sales representative 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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How to build an affordable bike rental business in New York City

Our Own Start-up

The crowd does not just consist of the health freak crowd, but there are also tourists and even college-going students who are looking to find affordable bike rental in NYC.

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How to Create an Individual and Memorable Brand Identity’

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Your company’s brand is critical to its commercial success. Branding tells your target audience what your business does and who you are. It also ensures that your company name sticks in their minds and becomes a recognizable entity. What’s more – branding creates a more level playing field between big businesses, mid-size firms, and startups. By creating a unique and memorable brand, you can elevate your small business and gain an advantage over your competitors.

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In Defense of the IPO and How to Improve It, Part 2: Peeking Behind the Pop

Ben's Blog

In our last deep-dive article on IPOs , we outlined how pricing works, how post-IPO activity is influenced by the four types of stock market investors, why the price of a marginal share is not that of a block trade, and how we shouldn’t throw the baby (IPOs) out with the bathwater (less-than-ideal price discovery), particularly for companies that need to raise a large amount of primary capital.

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Mistakes To Avoid When Starting a Medical Practice

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Becoming your own boss is the dream of many working individuals. Now is the time to take that very first step and commit to your decision. Opening up a medical practice is an exciting opportunity but a major responsibility. You have a wide array of considerations to make and decisions to take control of. Everything may go along smoothly according to plan, but hiccups tend to happen.

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Israeli venture capital broke new records in Q3 2020, but seed rounds are massively down

VC Cafe

After finishing a second national lockdown, amidst weeks of protests against the government and with borders largely closed to foreigners, you could safely say that these are not ‘normal’ days for Israeli startups or the Israeli economy. With that said, Israeli Venture Capital funding broke a new record in Q3 2020, according to an IVC report.

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Generators vs. Alternate Energy Supplies and Creating Efficient Business Back-Up Plans

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The world is rapidly changing and gradually transferring to greener energy options. Still, many large companies are also looking to blend their energy sources, settling with a combination of green technologies and electric generators. Leading electric generator service provider GenerX Generators offers services covering the following business sectors; Residential, Business, Industrial, and Service.

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Can you build a company, not just a product?

Berkonomics

Some businesses are built around a single idea. . And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors. There was a recent investor event where I was keynote speaker, on stage only after several panels of experts had wowed the audience with their predictions and observations. One of the panelists made a point that resonated with me.

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5 Important Signs You Are Not Ready to Reopen

Women Entrepreneurs Can

We have had the worst year and if you own a business, you may have felt the pinch more than others. Being a business owner is pipped with challenges, but you cannot have seen a pandemic coming – no one could. For months, you may have been closed and losing money while struggling to keep your head above water, but now is the time to ask yourself whether it’s time to go back to work and reopen again.

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Why Choosing the Best Hosting Platform Is Vital For Your Business

Up and Running

Building a robust eCommerce business is difficult. Working and fully automated trade models suffer growing pains just as brick and mortar storefronts do on their road to success. Truth be told, building a successful online business can be more challenging because you must rely on third-party providers for web hosting and software services. Ask any seasoned entrepreneur, blogger, developer, innovator, or marketer.

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How to Make a Good First Impression with Your Business Premises

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Whether you have an office that clients visit, a physical store , or any other business that customers will visit the premises of, those premises need to make a good first impression. If a customer or client arrives and your premises look shabby, dirty, and untidy, it suggests that the owners don’t really care, whereas a clean, smart premise suggests trust and quality.