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8 Ways To Ensure Customer Interactions Are Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

As a consumer, I rarely pay attention to your marketing pitch, but I certainly always remember a exceptionally positive total experience with your team, based on a memorable set of interactions from first contact to discussions with friends. Yet, as a business consultant, I often find minimal focus on improving employee engagement and assessing their customer-facing performance.

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4 Ways IoT is Rewiring How the World Works

ReadWriteStart

There are few technologies in the world today that can make a Trillion-dollar impact on the global economy. IoT (Internet of Things) is one of them. McKinsey, the global think tank, estimates that IoT will have an economic impact of between $4 trillion and $11 trillion by 2025 ( Source ). Source: Mckinsey. IoT brings organizations a whole new way of working wherein it becomes easier to control, manage, and monitor remotely located hardware.

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Everything You Need To Know About R&D Tax Credits 

The Startup Magazine

The Research and Development Tax Credit or more known as R&D Tax Credit is a tax credit that all businesses can avail of to minimize their state and federal tax liabilities. It was specifically designed to provide incentives to businesses that have a strong R&D program and are always finding ways to develop and improve processes to drive growth and development.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

New tech entrepreneurs can find it difficult to surmount the onslaught of obstacles to getting a new business off the ground. Some days can feel so frustrating that you consider giving up. However, the challenges you face are the same ones that every successful small business owner has faced and then surmounted in some way or another. It can be instructive and inspirational to hear about businesses that triumphed over adversity.

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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 Are the Components of a Strong Nonprofit Compliance Program?

Board Effect

When it comes to developing a responsible compliance program, your board can start by asking, “What makes a good compliance program for nonprofits?”. First, your board needs to consider the 3 purposes of your compliance program: Prevention. Detection. Corrective action. With these purposes in mind, you can start putting the components of a strong compliance program together so your board can rest assured that your nonprofit is operating according to all applicable laws and regulations.

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Burning Platform: Leading with authenticity

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In the 49th episode of the series we have a repeat appearance by Sabrina Horn, CEO of Horn Strategy We discuss her new book "Make it, don't fake it". The book shows how authentic leadership eliminates the need for the.

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The Essential Guide to Corporate Knowledge Management for Small Business Owners

Up and Running

Making sure your company is running like a well-oiled machine isn’t always easy. Many small business owners bank on their experience. The word alone transmits a sense of trustworthiness and reliability that makes customers feel secure. . However, if you asked most entrepreneurs to define exactly what that experience is, they might be hard-pressed to provide a clear answer.

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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Career Probing

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you should be actively defining and starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Let me explain why this is a win-win deal, no matter what the outcome. You have probably secretly always wanted to run your own show, but with an existing job, never took the time to consider a startup.

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Tips For Marketing A Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Marketing a small business does take time, but when you do it right, you give your business a higher chance of survival. The post Tips For Marketing A Small Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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AnthemIQ: Closing Our $10 Million Series A

Austin Startup

Bringing the CRE Industry to the 21st Century It’s hard to believe that the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry has operated essentially the same way for the past 15 years considering how much technology has advanced and significantly improved most industries. Yet even the most technically savvy brokers still run their businesses through a combination of PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, text messages, and email.

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Analyst Cam: Salesforce Industries Summit,  Part 3

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Salesforce held an Industries Summit earlier this month. They invited me to an analyst pre-briefing.

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5 Keys To Ethical Solutions To Tough Business Issues

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people seem to have the sense that ethics are spiraling downward in business, and unfortunately most startup professionals and entrepreneurs I know don’t believe they can make a difference. They don’t realize that if they don’t take an active role in the solution, they really become part of the problem. I do believe that most business people want to do the right thing, but many just don’t have the skills to develop an unemotional ethical position, or confidence to act on their ethical belie

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[Interview] Sean And Thora Dowdell, Owners Of Club Tattoo Studios  

YoungUpstarts

Sean Dowdell is known as the Tattooed Millionaire, while Thora is passionate about empowering women business owners through her story. We chat with the husband-wife team, who are also authors of the book “Brand Renegades“. The post [Interview] Sean And Thora Dowdell, Owners Of Club Tattoo Studios appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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In a tech startup, how to improve the quality of your product

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I am part of a mastermind group of 4 entrepreneurs. Last week, one question that came up was “How do you keep the quality of your product up?” As the only technical founder of the group, I could offer some suggestions regarding the software development aspect. Since my suggestions were well received, I thought I would try to capture them in a blog post.

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Analyst Cam: Salesforce Industries Summit,  Part 2

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Salesforce held an Industries Summit earlier this month. They invited me to an analyst pre-briefing.

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6 Success Stages Every Entrepreneur Idea Has To Pass

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and get rich these days. As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business reality. All the evidence says that over 99% fail to make that leap.

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Should You Hire An Employee Or An Independent Contractor? Four Key Considerations

YoungUpstarts

Whether you should hire an employee or an independent contractor comes down to your business needs. Here are four considerations. The post Should You Hire An Employee Or An Independent Contractor? Four Key Considerations appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Making Sure Your Startup is Professional: 4 Helpful Tips

The Startup Magazine

If you’re just starting a business, you surely know how important it is to make sure that your business has a good reputation. A good business reputation means success, and a bad one means failure. One way of ensuring that your business builds and maintains a good reputation is to make sure that your startup is professional. This will lead to a good reputation amongst potential clients, as well as potential employees – and these are two of the most important groups of people for any business.

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Analyst Cam: Salesforce Industries Summit,  Part 1

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Salesforce held an Industries Summit earlier this month. They invited me to an analyst pre-briefing.

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How to Partner With Other Companies to Grow Your Business

Up and Running

When you want to scale your business , you have a few choices. You could toss more money into marketing. Possibly bump up your product or service lineup. You could even encourage your current customer base to give you more of their discretionary dollars. . And you know what? Any of those tactics could work to expand your brand’s reach. Nevertheless, you should consider another proven amplification approach for your brand: forming strategic partnerships.

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10 Remarkably Straightforward Ways To Boost Your Productivity And Efficiency

YoungUpstarts

If you can get into the right habits, then you can become a much more efficient group or individual. Here are ten good habits to form to boost your productivity. The post 10 Remarkably Straightforward Ways To Boost Your Productivity And Efficiency appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Employee Relocation Letter: A Proper Guide When Closing Down a Location?

The Startup Magazine

Sometimes, a business organization can face a lot of hurdles due to several circumstantial reasons. And due to the negative circumstances, business owners can take a hard decision like closing down one of their business locations and moves to another place. However, the leading cross country movers that specialize in relocation packages explain that such situations are really distressing for the business owners and for its employees as well.

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Bringing the Commercial Real Estate Industry into the 21st Century

SiliconHills

By Kenny Tomlin, Founder and Executive Chairman of AnthemIQ It’s difficult to believe that the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry has continued to operate in essentially the same manner the past 15 years, considering how much technology has advanced and significantly improved most industries. Yet, even the most technically savvy brokers still run their business […].

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Must-Have Succession Planning Tools for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

The leaders you count on today may not be able to fulfill their duties tomorrow, and the right succession planning tools make the task of planning for successive leadership efficient and easy. Continuous, strong leadership is a must-have for nonprofits. Regardless of what obstacles and challenges your board faces, your nonprofit’s work must continue.

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Top 5 Mistakes Aspiring Writers Should Avoid Making

YoungUpstarts

Looking to be an award-winning, best selling author? Here are the top five mistakes that you as an aspiring writer should avoid making. The post Top 5 Mistakes Aspiring Writers Should Avoid Making appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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FIVE REASONS WHY EVERY BUSINESS NEEDS A COMMUNICATION EXPERT

The Startup Magazine

Suppose you have a brilliant business idea. You dedicate many precious hours to draw a perfect plan, devise your strategies, and allocate budgets – in short, you make sure to leave no loose ends. You set up a meeting with your company’s potential clients, confident that your idea would be the talk of the town and that your company would immensely grow after securing finances (because of your idea), all without asking a communication expert for advice.

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How to Market Your SMB In An Increasingly Digitized Industry

YFS Magazine

B2B business leaders who commit to further digitizing their go-to-market strategies will drive significant competitive advantage.

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Don’t Let Your Best Product Managers All Become People Managers Or Your Company Will Suffer

Hunter Walker

Why Ken Norton’s Dual Product Management Career Path Can Also Encourage Innovation At Scale. “ Rising to your level of misery ” is how Arthur Brooks frames the trap of being good enough at your job that you continue to climb a corporate ladder until arriving at a rung which leaves you in a role that makes you miserable. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead.

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A Business’s Guide To Moving Into A New Office Space

YoungUpstarts

Moving your business to a new office is exciting but stressful. It requires planning and well-coordinated execution for it to be smooth and successful. The post A Business’s Guide To Moving Into A New Office Space appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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What Are Examples of Data Science Solutions?

The Startup Magazine

Data Scientist was called the sexiest job of the year at the beginning of the last decade, as a new field that enabled companies to mine treasured information about customers and market trends out of piles of seemingly impenetrable facts and figures. it’ important not to confuse data science with data analytics; while data analytics looks at past trends and data to give a person or company insight into what trends have been or who past demographics have been made up of, data science uses data to

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Baird Hall Co-Founder Of ChurnKey, Wavve, ZubTitle, How The Wavve Acquisition Deal Got Done, Solving Internal Problems Leads To New Companies

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In the previous episode of Vested Capital (EP2), we talked with David Horne and Marty Balkema, founders of Calm Capital. They had recently acquired the company Wavve. On this episode, Baird Hall, one of the co-founders of Wavve, shares the other side of that acquisition, as the seller of Wavve. Baird takes us back in […]. The post Baird Hall Co-Founder Of ChurnKey, Wavve, ZubTitle, How The Wavve Acquisition Deal Got Done, Solving Internal Problems Leads To New Companies appeared first on Y

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Outdoorsy Raises $120 Million in Financing and Launches Roamly, its Insurance Division

SiliconHills

Outdoorsy, an RV rental marketplace, raises $120 million and launches Roamly, an insurance technology product with plans to expand into Europe.

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[Interview] Alex Dripchak, Author Of “100 Skills Of The Successful Sales Professional”

YoungUpstarts

How can young sales professionals establish and elevate their careers in these extraordinary times? We talk to Alex Dripchak, author of "100 Skills of the Successful Sales Professional" to find out. The post [Interview] Alex Dripchak, Author Of “100 Skills Of The Successful Sales Professional” appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How a VoIP System is a Great Way to Save Money for a Business

The Startup Magazine

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a system that allows a business to make and receive phone calls with an internet connection. It does not use conventional wire or cable to communicate. Many companies are bogged down with expensive telephone systems. A smart and simple way to save money is to upgrade to newer VoIP technology. Here is a closer look at how VoIP services lower a business’s costs.

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Jeff Ponchick Founder Of Repost Network, Sold To SoundCloud, How The Music Rights Industry Works Online (VC EP4)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The world of music rights is a lot more confusing than I thought. There are many stakeholders who are all supposed to get a share of the revenue from music used online – from labels, publishers, platforms, song writers and of course the artist who created the music. Jeff Ponchick worked in the world of […]. The post Jeff Ponchick Founder Of Repost Network, Sold To SoundCloud, How The Music Rights Industry Works Online (VC EP4) appeared first on Yaro.Blog.

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Three Ways to Create Your Own Pension Fund

YFS Magazine

Time may seem like it is moving slowly now, but the age of 65+ will creep up faster than you think. Get your retirement plans in order.