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5 Ways Automation Is Reshaping The Vacation Rental Industry

YoungUpstarts

by Pamela Knudsen, Director of Compliance Services for Avalara MyLodgeTax. There are certain experiences that simply require businesses to provide a human touch, like a fitting for a new suit or a guided travel tour. But, that’s not the case for all businesses — or business functions. Automation is having a particularly powerful impact on the service industry, where technology is alleviating the workload for business owners, while enhancing experiences for customers.

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Exponential Growth and Covid-19

Feld Thoughts

Most people don’t understand exponential growth. It can be counterintuitive and is easily misinterpreted. Understanding it is particularly important right now around Covid-19. The following eight-minute video is extremely well done and uses the historical Covid-19 data to help understand exponential growth. There’s a magic number in this that we should be focusing on, but gets lost in the fog of hysteria.

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Why the Google Pixelbook Go is the best laptop in the world (for me)

Jeff Hilimire

I’m not someone that needs a ‘desk’. Not really. Yes, I have a desk at the Dragon Army office (but no personal office, of course ). But I’m probably at that desk less than 10% of the time. I prefer to be out and about throughout the office, working where I find myself. All I need is a great laptop, a great phone, and I’m good to go. Maybe some headphones here and there.

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A tricky time for enterprise software

deal architect

I have spent a fair amount of time in the last few months talking to enterprise tech companies about verticalization and globalization. I recently talked to Mike Sicilia at Oracle and will be hearing more about their industry strategy later.

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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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Tips When Expanding Your Business Globally

YoungUpstarts

As you grow your business, there are always thoughts of new ways to help build on its success, and one of those things might be expanding your business globally. You might have the product or service that’s needed to a wider market, and if that’s the case, then you definitely want to take advantage of it. Here are some tips when expanding your business globally.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 3: Evan Walden CEO of Monday.vc

Eric Friedman

My latest interview is with Evan Walden the CEO and co-founder of Monday.VC who has been building since 2016. From first selling pesticides to taking on the mission of helping people find more meaning in their work, Evan shares the entire origin story and details of what the team has built. This is a fun episode to share because we use the software and are customers at Company , where you can see the epic jobs available in our ecosystem over at [link].

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THE LOW-RISK STOCK MARKET FOR BEGINNERS

The Startup Magazine

When you mention the stock market to most people, it conjures up images of the extremely fast paced, aggressive and intimidating Wall Street in New York, where shirt wearing, coffee drinking men rush around in the mad rat race. In reality, the modern stock market is now a lot more relaxing, inclusive and easy to wrap your head around. It is up to you, the investor, what kind of money you part with, and so to get your foot in the stock market, you can start with low risk investing.

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Why Your Business Needs The Right Number

YoungUpstarts

What would you prefer – someone who is in need of a freelancer and picks you up over call directly or let him or her wander around your website and fill up any contact form? Of course the first, as it’s more convenient and sophisticated. Inbound calls have a 10x more conversion rate, which is indicative of the fact that direct calls have still got the rapport.

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How to Create Your Core Story and Message

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Create Your Core Story and Message written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When it comes to marketing your business, it pays to have a good story. Storytelling has been around since the dawn of time, and a compelling story has the power to inspire readers, make them think, and motivate them to take action. Creating a core story—one that speaks to the heart of what you do, who you are here to serve, and why—can guide all of your marketing messaging and empower you to conn

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The Entrepreneurial Family’s Field Guide To Financial Well-Being

YFS Magazine

Creating a family financial wellness plan that meshes with the needs of the young entrepreneurial family can be a challenge.

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Changing Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Changing Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jonah Berger. Podcast Transcript. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with author and Wharton School Professor Jonah Berger. Berger is the best-selling author of three books, including his latest The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind.

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Simple Ways to Protect Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you run a small business, you must take your privacy and security seriously. There are many ways that you can choose to protect your small business. Some are smaller, and others will cost some time and a bit of cash. All of them, in the long run, will keep your business, clients safe. Digital Copies. While it is prudent to make sure that you are keeping paper copies safe and secure using a lockable filing cabinet, you should consider digital copies too.

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Transcript of Changing Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Changing Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Zephyr CMS. It’s a modern cloud based CMS system that’s licensed only to agencies. You can find them at zephyrcms.com, more about this later in the show.

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From Dreams to Reality: The Process of Creating a New Product

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Regardless of what you do or what you sell in business there will be pros and cons. Just look at selling digital or physical products for example- while digital products require no shipping they can be harder to value and harder to sell than actual ‘items’. But with physical products there are lots of steps that you need to follow to bring your idea from a thought to a final product that people want to buy.

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Eventual Millionaire – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

Eventual Millionaire – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch speaks with host Jaime Masters on her podcast the Eventual Millionaire about his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. Jantsch is well-known in the world of small business marketing, but his latest book is a departure for him.

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Change Your Finances from Average to Flourishing

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you think about making money you will most likely think about the troubles of having to go to work. If you’re the rare person that loves going to work, then it might not be as bad. But even if you love your job you will understand how hard it is to get even more money. And if there’s one thing that most of us want, it’s more money.

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Is Your Business ‘’Work From Home ‘’ Ready?

Transformify

When we started Transformify 5 years ago, all-remote companies were rare and remote work was seen as a ‘’perk’’ tech startups would offer to their top tech talent to keep them happy and loyal. Digital nomads were mostly successful tech entrepreneurs who had made an exit and could afford to work and travel, traders, marketers, photographers and the like.

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