Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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5 Keys To Boosting The Performance Of A Business Team

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes an effective team to attract and serve a community in business these days. With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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An Overview Of Cyber Risks

YoungUpstarts

by Bart McDonough , CEO and founder of Agio, and author of “ Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals “ William and Nancy Skog had cherry-picked an impeccable, perfect, river-front residence in Wilmington, Illinois. Exhilarated by the thought of moving into their dream home, the Skogs could practically see their new lives — watching the tranquil riverboats cruise by and listening to the water birds sing.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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Why Digital Technology Is Important For Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

When you first start out with your business venture, there are many challenges you will have to overcome. Finances can be one of the major challenges for many start-ups. The other is the stiff level of competition that is present in every industry. In order to compete with established rivals, effective marketing is vital. A big part of every marketing strategy these days has to be digital marketing.

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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 If Your Future Was Determined By The Color Of Your Eyes

Feld Thoughts

If you are looking for something powerful, creative, provocative, and beautifully done, go look at True Blue by Eliot Peper and team. In 2017, I wrote a post titled A Clever Short Story About Discrimination about the short story that Eliot had written. It was an idea that David Cohen had. He shared it with Eliot, who then wrote the short story. David then funded a project for Eliot to turn it into an “internet public art project.” Eliot describes how they made True Blue.

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When You Need To Know – Use A Keylogger

YoungUpstarts

Computers are a huge part of modern life for the majority of those people living in cities and towns around the globe. Instead of sending letters, communication often takes place by sending an email and receiving an answer within minutes. The same is true for changes occurring in the way people conduct their social life today. Dates are chosen from forums listing thousands of possibilities, and social media sites allow individuals to post their latest activities, favorite foods, and newest chall

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10 Benefits Of Using An Introducing Broker In Forex Trading

YoungUpstarts

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5 Ways To Attract Abundance And Your Dream High-Profile Clients

YFS Magazine

The better you become, the better you attract. Here's how to do the work necessary to show up in the world and serve your ideal clients.

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Project Management Professional Educational Training: What Is It And Why You Should Do It

YoungUpstarts

Project management is now given better attention compared to a few years back. With project management being a necessity especially in high-performing companies, there is a higher demand for project managers, which could even grow to be higher than other occupations. According to Glassdoor as of March 2018, the average project manager salary is $80,854.

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Why All Businesses Should Focus on Preventing Workplace Violence

Transformify

Workplace violence remains a serious concern in all professions. Managers don't receive the necessary training to spot the signs of potential workplace violence. Tragic consequences may result when an unstable employee loses control. Executives in a position of authority should invest the necessary time and effort to reduce the potential for incidents.

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How To Be A Successful Freelancer

YoungUpstarts

Freelancing has rapidly increased in popularity in the past few years. More and more people are choosing to freelance instead of work in traditional office setups. Technology has made it incredibly easy for people to work remotely, and it has allowed people to pursue opportunities they never had before. However, freelancing isn’t all fun and games. It does require a lot of hard work and dedication.

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Twitter Link Roundup #359 – Terrific Reads for Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

How many tabs do you have open in your browser right now? If you had to stop and count, it’s probably too many. An overcrowded browser is like a cluttered home. It is overwhelming and excessive, and it provokes a genuine stress response. If you suffer from spending precious mental energy searching through all 42 tabs in your browser to find the one you need, consider looking into some tools to help you regain that lost time and attention.

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6 Steps to Growing Your Freelance Business to Six Figures

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you’re a freelancer , you’ll likely know what it’s like to find yourself in a feast or famine cycle, where you’re either swamped with work or looking everywhere for it. But just because many people find themselves in this cycle, doesn’t mean it has to be this way. You can grow a successful freelance business, where you’ll no longer need to worry about where the next contract or paycheck is coming from.

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Journey of ‘Hoopoe on a Hill’, selling organic honey products

Our Own Start-up

‘Hoopoe on a Hill’, processes, packages, and sells organic honey and related products online and offline.

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It’s Time To Add A New Coffee Mug To Your Collection

YFS Magazine

The jury is still out on if a stylish coffee mug improves your morning routine, but we like to think it does.

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Dragon Army Leadership Offsite – Ebenezer Baptist Church

Jeff Hilimire

Each quarter I take the Dragon Army leadership team to an offsite location for a day of reflection and planning. I pick a place that will inspire us and have the leader of that place give us a talk. Our meeting this quarter was focused on the company that we want to become. We are a purpose-driven digital experience agency. Purpose. Driven. I always give my team a reading assignment prior to our offsites, and this time the team read the following books: Let My People Go Surfing.