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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees.

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The Power Of Play In Business Culture

Duct Tape Marketing

Laughs and playfulness will connect your team and help strengthen bonds and relationships amongst them, which then will help solve issues that can be found in unhappy employees such as retention, engagement, physical and mental health problems, or lack of innovation and creativity. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts.

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6 User Onboarding Flow Examples (With Critiques)

ConversionXL

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. It means that user retention becomes even more important. If users are not onboarded properly, the chances of retention are minimal. When I say “user onboarding”, you likely think of SaaS companies first, right?

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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

Surprises always work to instill loyalty and retention. Statistically, 3-out-of-4 Internet users live in North America, making exposure on the web critical. Virally spread your marketing message by making sure influential local bloggers see your video. Customers come to expect rewards when they are members of a program.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Then take major social networking and Web firms: Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Myspace in USA and Nexopia, Myfrenz.net in India and dozens more here in North America or worldwide are based on non-Microsoft technologies – like PHP, Python, ruby-on-Rails, generic C++, some Java, and on and on. Bill Beebe.

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