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How To Create A Better Customer Experience For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Customer experience is one of the most crucial factors determining the success of an organization. No matter how good the quality of your product is, it will be in vain if you offer poor customer experience. According to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 42% of customers are willing to pay more for a more friendly and welcoming customer experience, while 52% would pay more for speed and efficiency in the customer service they receive.

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The Digital Era and Global Lockdown: See How These Industries Evolved

ReadWriteStart

The recent turbulence of Coronavirus made all of us rethink business life. Many industries have started incorporating profound transformation to overcome the recession. The metamorphosis includes day-to-day operations to the business processes of vital importance. Businesses have even started closing new deals with clients at online meetings. Companies have been forced to turn all of these lockdown challenges into a complex change. .

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How To Evaluate Your Company’s Value

YoungUpstarts

When you have started a company and built it from the ground up, it can sometimes be hard to value it objectively. To you, the business is everything, an emblem of all of those lingering doubts and 14-hour days on your journey to profitability. However, to the market of potential buyers, your business likely has a much more tangible price point. To help you navigate this gap and come to a realistic figure on what your company is worth, there are a number of different steps you can take and numbe

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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. Ms. Colón is a Speaker, Contributing Author, & CEO of language services company, Metaphrasis Language and Cultural Solutions, LLC. Growing up in a home with two deaf sisters and parents who spoke very little English, Elizabeth saw the many ways that language can be a barrier for individuals who do not have the means to communicate on their own.

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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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Worlds Apart, But On The Same Page

YoungUpstarts

by Steven Starks, Senior Career Counselor at University of Phoenix. We have adapted to a new normal, moving our watercooler conversations to text chats and trading conference rooms for virtual meetings. As supervisors and employees alike adjusted to the changes, our organizations may have foregone traditional employee reviews. However, a change in where we do our work does not mean we should stop the evaluation of our work.

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The 7 Highest-Paying Career Paths That Are In Demand… Right Now

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The job market is constantly changing and expanding. The way technology is growing, it is affecting how people work and what kinds of jobs are available. We can actually earn by doing jobs that were never even thought of in the past. According to Indeed’s recent ranking of the occupations with the most potential in the job market, people working in technology, business and healthcare sectors embrace the title of the ‘best jobs of 2020’.

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Why Young Entrepreneurs Are Into Digital Marketing

YoungUpstarts

If Gen X entrepreneurs are making tremendous efforts to climb up the corporate ladder, Gen Z entrepreneurs are doing pretty good, earning a living in innovative ways. They have a strong ability to market themselves, which allows these young entrepreneurs to get more clients and grow their business. Considering that Gen Z entrepreneurs are going up against larger, better known, and more resourceful companies, this is no little thing.

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New Normal: A conversation with Tony Prophet of Salesforce

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up.

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Why The Self Employed Are Facing More Mortgage Scrutiny

YoungUpstarts

The U.S. economy has taken a battering during the COVID-19 pandemic with the mortgage industry being particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Along with the usual tightened checks needed for all lenders because of the restrictions placed on workers by COVID-19, the self-employed are facing the tightest restrictions in living memory. The OCR has reported the move towards any self-employed person obtaining a home loan has been blocked by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with tighter restrictions.

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SpyCloud Raises $30 Million for its Anti-Fraud Platform

SiliconHills

Despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, deals are still getting done in Austin’s startup community. Austin-based SpyCloud announced on Tuesday that it has closed on $30 million in additional venture capital funding. To date, the cybersecurity company, founded in 2016, has raised $58.5 million, according to Crunchbase. SpyCloud plans to use the funds raised to expand […].

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How To Start An Organic Online Food Business

YoungUpstarts

Starting a new business is challenging due to the hard lessons to be learned, and the complexities involved. Online businesses are no exception, but the challenges of an online business are different from a physical store or shop. An online food business is influenced by a myriad of factors including legal risks, a volatile supply chain that is easily affected by weather and poor logistics.

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B2B SaaS Keyword Research: A Start-to-Finish Framework

ConversionXL

When it comes to SEO, it all starts with keyword research. Before you kick off a link-building campaign or invest in creating quality content, you need to understand where the volume is, how competitive terms are, and the intent behind those queries. But what does an effective keyword research strategy look like? For SaaS companies, there are the obvious ones, like your brand name and product category (e.g., “email marketing software,” “accounting software”), but Google processes more than 40,00

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4 Proven Ways to Differentiate Your Brand From Competitors

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are four proven ways your company can differentiate from competitors to increase sales and profits and to create loyal customers.

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New Social App Lets Users ‘Vent’ Anonymously

Austin Startup

The free VentSpace platform launched in August out of Austin, Texas AUSTIN ?—?A new social media app that lets users anonymously vent their thoughts and feelings is picking up steam. The United State’s loneliness epidemic has been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic but the VentSpace app aims to offer some relief with a free, private platform for connecting and getting support.

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Lightspeed India raises $275 Million, to partner with bold founders building for India and from India for the world

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Lightspeed India raises $275 Million, to partner with bold founders building for India and from India for the world appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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9 Habits That Are Bad for Your Mental Health

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Whether you’re a business owner, manager, teacher, Uber Driver, stay at home mom, or retired, we all know that our mental health is super important. We always need to be on our game, and when we are depressed, tired, mentally exhausted, or unable to focus, we can often find ourselves failing at the things we love the most. What you might not realize is that there are common bad habits you could be engaging in every day that are negatively affecting your mental health.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph Heller, CEO & Founder of The/Studio Technologies. In 2015, McKinsey did a study of average corporate lifespans on the S&P 500. They found that while in 1958, the average lifespan of a company listed on the S&P 500 was sixty-one years, in 2011 it was less than eighteen. By 2027, it was estimated that 75% of the companies currently on the S&P 500 will have been delisted.

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Why Online Reviews Are Important for Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Online Shoppers Use Reviews to Make Buying Decisions. Whether they are choosing a vacuum cleaner, a lawnmower, or a restaurant, shoppers turn to online sources like Yelp, Google , or product reviews on Amazon to inform themselves about how other purchasers have responded to a product or service. That’s a major reason why online reviews are important for your business.

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Shelley Osborne On Why a College Degree Is No Longer Enough

Transformify

I was among the few people to read ‘’The Upskilling Imperative: 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work’’ prior to being published. Now, I have the pleasure to discuss it with its author – Shelley Osborne, VP of Learning at Udemy. Shelley, I would love to know more about your perspective on transferable skills and life-long learning.

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