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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. CMOs who employ AI-powered marketing report significant gains in customer retention, engagement, and lifetime loyalty. Automation.

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5 Reasons Employee Training At Your Business Should Never End

YoungUpstarts

If you have a team of software engineers, perhaps they could benefit with some soft skills training. If your team deals with infrastructure engineering you could send them for a one-day course on the cables and components they specify. Here are some of the top reasons your employee training should be permanently ongoing: 1.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, Alex Winkelman Zeplain, Founder of Hello My Tribe, and Autumn Manning , CEO of YouEarnedIt — will open up about their struggles, pressures, and leadership battles to share how they’ve coped and built a community. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

same thing as growth hacker or growth marketer): “The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. Software Engineer. ” You also need strong leadership and management skills in this role.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work. I learned that software engineers?—?or

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

This solution streamlined the process for onboarding new clients and led to higher customer retention rates. Having full control over the product roadmap, they were able to spin off, rebrand, and sell their software to other agencies and web development shops. By acquiring a business, you also acquire their employees.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.