Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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How to Choose Great Employees and Why It’s Important

The Startup Magazine

Many business owners find it difficult to find knowledgeable, reliable employees. However, finding the right people to hire for your business is extremely important. Learn how to simplify your hiring process to make finding good employees simple. Explore what makes an employee a great fit for your company and why employee retention is super important.

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Surprising Tricks For Powerful Public Speaking

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Geiger, author of “ Better Business Speech: Techniques, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Public Speaking at Work “ Speaking in front of a group in any business setting, whether it’s a formal presentation, a meeting or on a conference call, requires not only that you have a well-prepared message, but that you deliver it clearly. Any number of glitches can sabotage your delivery.

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Oracle Cloud AcceleratorPart 1

deal architect

At Oracle OpenWorld, Letty Ledbetter set up several interesting breakout sessions for a handful of us analysts. One of the more enjoyable ones was when Reggie Bradford, SVP described their Cloud Accelerator program.

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How To Reduce Workplace Drama And Improve Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Is it just me in my role as business advisor, or is emotional drama in the workplace increasing? Team members seem to be spending more and more time venting to anyone who will listen about the motives and actions of others, and less time introspectively focused on their own productivity and accountability. The result is less real engagement and more negativity for all to endure.

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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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Stress: 3 Ways To Keep it From Killing You

YoungUpstarts

by Marianne Clyde, author of “ Zentivity™: How to Eliminate Chaos, Stress and Discontent in Your Workplace “ Stripped naked, tied to a post with a gun to his head for hours, in front of his little cement block house, my friend kept singing “Jesus keep me near the cross…”. A prisoner, held behind enemy lines in Sierra Leone during the civil war in the late 90’s, he subsisted on very little food, and in the end, just fruit and berries.

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The Right Way To Build Strategic Partnerships

YFS Magazine

Strategic partnerships are often an ideal way to build brand traction, expand your customer base, access resources, and stimulate revenue growth.

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Turning Office Small Talk Into Smart Conversation

The Startup Magazine

Small talk is seen as an essential part of daily life and common to office conversation. In fact, it is often the awkward moment when you are greeting people and feel the need to be polite before talking about more serious matters. Of course, there are those that love to chatter away about all sorts of things; their small talk can quickly stretch from “what have you been doing?

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Transformify gets two freelance platform awards from FinancesOnline

Transformify

We’ve got some great news! Transformify was examined by the trusted B2B directory FinancesOnline.com and granted a score of 8.0 out of 10 and a perfect user satisfaction rating of 100% on the strength of its features and functions. Reviewers noted how our platform helps businesses connect with the most qualified workers using intelligent learning algorithm that matches employers with desirable candidates based on candidate's skills, certifications, location, and salary expectations.

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Ideal Vacation Rental Investments in Malta

The Startup Magazine

Rental investments are becoming a popular choice for many people to park their assets. You benefit from the usual perks of owning a vacation home and of course the rental income is a great incentive. Why Malta? Malta has seen a boom in both its economy and the number of foreign nationals willing to take residence in the beautiful Mediterranean gem. As a result, there has also been a correlated increase in interest towards rental properties in order to keep up with the rise in housing demands.

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Twitter Link Roundup #312 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

I have often wished I could cram for exams (when in school) and important meetings by taking a very long nap. Unfortunately, that strategy never worked. But, it turns out that you can learn while you sleep! A new study has found that the sleeping brain can learn new information during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, the point in your sleep cycle when you typically dream.

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Benefits of Handling Advanced Business Analytics In-House

The Startup Magazine

The common discourse on analytics says they are a huge asset. But they are also too complicated and too expensive for enterprises to handle in-house. That has motivated many companies to outsource their business analytics capabilities. And more than a few are underwhelmed by the outcomes. Business Analytics Challenges. It’s true that outsourced analytics seem like an asset at first.

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Dosh App Allows Users to Shop and Receive Money Back

Austin Startup

With more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector, Ryan Wuerch is the founder and CEO of Dosh, a mobile app that helps users receive cash back after making purchases at participating companies nationwide. Based in Austin, Texas, Ryan Wuerch is responsible for the vision and overall management of the up-and-coming consumer-facing startup.

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HR Hacks: Tips and Tricks to Deal with HR Challenges

The Startup Magazine

Gone are the days when human resources was a department that handled primarily administrative tasks involving transactional effort. Today, the human resources team in companies across the board have a broad range of responsibilities: Engaging in the business-critical tasks of attracting and retaining the best talent. Meeting organizational goals. Being the bridge between the management and employees in order to achieve optimum productivity.

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“Founder Friendly”

Austin Startup

TL;DR : “Founder friendliness” should mean not being hostile, but also not being submissive, to founders. Good entrepreneurs and advisors know that. Background reading: Local v. Out of State VCs When you’re not CEO Material Preferred Stock v. Common Stock Ask the Users Because we’re known as Startup/VC lawyers who don’t represent VCs (just companies), I often get asked about my thoughts on “founder friendliness.

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Texting: The Killer Application in your Offline Marketing Arsenal

Duct Tape Marketing

Texting: The Killer Application in your Offline Marketing Arsenal written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Times have changed. We think virtual first and then physical. That’s true where marketing is concerned too- we usually focus first on digital marketing. You may be overlooking other channels that are even more effective than what’s thought of as traditional offline channels.

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I’m reading the newspaper and paperback books…what’s happening to me?!

Jeff Hilimire

On the list of things I never thought would happen, I’m reading on paper these days. Paper! Like, from trees and stuff. I think its crazy that anyone, including me, is reading on paper in 2017. We have Kindles! And iPads! And I think Microsoft has things you can read on. And phones the size of books! But yet here I am, back to reading on paper.

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Is Your Offline and Online Marketing in Sync? Here are Some Tips

Duct Tape Marketing

Is Your Offline and Online Marketing in Sync? Here are Some Tips written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Often, deciding whether to focus your marketing efforts online or offline can be a dilemma. According to data from the US government, while a whopping $354 billion was generated through online commerce in 2016, an even mind-blowing $4.5 trillion was generated offline.

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Side Business: Generating Ideas for Your Side Hustle

The Startup Magazine

To get in the mindset of finding the profitable ideas that exist all around you, take an imaginary drive down the street and consider what kind of possibilities might appear. All along the way, pay close attention to your surroundings—you never know when a good idea for a side hustle might show up. The first thing to notice is that you’re not the only one on the road.

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Top Tips For Selling Your Business

The Startup Magazine

No matter how long or hard you’ve worked to grow your business, sometimes you have to step away. Maybe your heart isn’t in it anymore or you simply want to retire and put your feet up, whatever the reason there’s a lot to think about before you selling your business. Considerations. Before you even consider putting your business on the marketplace you need to be sure that your reason for doing so is right.

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