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As The Leader Of Your Company, It Pays To Be Emotionally Intelligent

YoungUpstarts

Gone are the days of absentee leadership or CEOs who operate out of sight or behind the scenes. No, today’s executives are highly connected and visible to their employees, due in large part to the ever accelerating pace of business. Frequently acknowledging the work, sacrifices, and contributions of your employees is a sign of high EI.

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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

With low operation costs and a large banking sector, Sioux Falls is receiving national attention as a great place to start a business. If you are interested in founding a traditional startup business but aren’t interested in moving to Silicon Valley, you might want to check out St. Louis is a growing hub for startup activity.

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How to Start A New Business in Less Than 50 Hours

ReadWriteStart

I signed up for this past weekend in St. The groups met in the Railway Exchange building in downtown St. Louis, down the hall from the tech accelerator that Capital Innovators is running and which we wrote about here. That is where I come in. There are more than 80 similar facilitators around the world. "I

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4 American Cities That Want Your Business

Up and Running

Louis, Missouri. Alongside Dallas, St. Louis was also ranked an efficient city on the regulatory climate index. Simple licensing procedures: Cities with convoluted or erratic licensing requirements will be much harder to operate in. and Monsanto in St.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

ReadWriteStart

Located in an underused mixed-use office building in downtown St. Louis, the program is run by two venture capitalists - Judy Sindecuse and Hal Gentry - who have formed a new entity called Capital Innovators. Any firm can apply, but must agree to move to St. That, plus a layoff and reassignment of its St.

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The 3 Essential SEO Tools for Any Marketing Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

This is particularly true for small and local businesses, where the phone is often the first point of offline contact between a prospect and your employees. So if you have a client operating out of the St. Louis area, all of the data BrightLocal provides will be related to that geographical area.

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Episode 77: Transitioning from Check-by-Check to Profitability with Keith Fear

Mike Michalowicz

Among the strategies that Keith used he discovered that he had great employees, but they weren’t doing the great things they should be doing, so he shifted them around. Keith is a 25 year veteran Commercial Hot Air Balloon pilot and owns and operates Balloons Over The Rainbow, Inc. the largest Hot Air Balloon ride operator in St.