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New Markets Mean More Than Just New Area Codes

YoungUpstarts

Every business aspires to move into new markets and conquer them, eventually expanding their reach to many corners of the globe. A business with a stagnant market is a business with a waning future. As a result, choosing new market destinations carefully is a critical step in making sure that business expansion will be successful.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The idea is called reactance theory : Whenever free choice—for example, of goods or services—is limited or restricted, the need to retain freedoms makes humans desire them significantly more than previously, especially if marketers can convince people that those freedoms are important. To amplify perceived value to woo Aspirants.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The idea is called reactance theory : Whenever free choice—for example, of goods or services—is limited or restricted, the need to retain freedoms makes humans desire them significantly more than previously, especially if marketers can convince people that those freedoms are important. To amplify perceived value to woo Aspirants.

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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

An entrepreneur who starts his own business can break free from this actuarial perspective and redefine the value he brings to the market,” he says. Offering a product or service that is lacking in your area is a great reason to start a business, Drew Phillips, owner of The Angry Beaver, a gay/straight hybrid bar in West Virginia, says. “Me,

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20 Essential TED Talks For Entrepreneurial Students

YoungUpstarts

One of the world’s most beloved and stimulating repositories for human knowledge available, it certainly explodes with amazing business, marketing and inventing advice. Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing. Try a few of these for starters! Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on aid versus trade. Joseph Pine on what consumers want.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

Both Sides of the Table

I think you’ll learn more in watching the 20-minute interview that Troy Carter and I did than you will in most tech interviews because he cuts down to the raw essence of what it takes any product to be discovered and nurtured and the power of being able to connect the right emerging artist with the right influencers in a market.

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Kentucky Innovation, Gonzeaux #5 — Marijuana & Other Secrets

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Kentucky grows more marijuana than any state except California – 2 billion dollars worth of weed have been chopped down in Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee. How do you take a disruptive innovation to market without risking life, limb, reputation, career, money, or the company?