August, 2021

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How to Improve the Productivity of Your Hybrid Team

Up and Running

As more remote teams transition to a hybrid structure, one question at the forefront of many business leaders’ minds is how to maintain high productivity levels both at home and in the office. 55 percent of employees with flexible work options are high performers, compared to just 36 percent of onsite nine-to-five employees, according to a Gartner report.

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The Complete Guide To Website Localization. (And How Proxy Providers Can Help!)

The Startup Magazine

So, you’ve finally bit the bullet and invested in localizing your website. Congratulations! You’re one step closer to getting more search traffic with improved SEO. Your next step is to test the localized version of your website. When you consider everything that needs to be tested before it goes live, from translated text to the site’s core functionality, you’re going to need a checklist to keep it all together.

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How to Automate Apps with Workflows & Integrations

ConversionXL

App automation can remove bottlenecks, save time and money, help you provide a better customer experience, and improve internal collaboration. But it should never replace the human touch. In this article, we’ll show you how to leverage app automation to produce desired results and reclaim productivity. We’ll also explore examples to apply across the customer journey and tools you can experiment with and invest in today.

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Additionally, there’s growing empowerment and embracing of individuality which motivates more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.

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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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Community Banking Trends for 2021

Board Effect

Ordinarily, the community banking trends from 2020 would provide a glimpse of what’s to come in 2021, but to say the least, 2020 was an extremely unusual year. It was a year that altered even the most predictable trends, disrupted markets in every industry, and shifted the status quo. Community banking trends provide a broad scope of the general direction for the banking industry, and it’s essential for your bank to consider them no matter how the winds of change blow.

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Why 80% Of Being An Entrepreneur And Business Owner Is About Mindset

Duct Tape Marketing

Why 80% Of Being An Entrepreneur And Business Owner Is About Mindset written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with Petter-Erik Nyvoll. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.

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What Are Your Biggest Cloud Storage Priorities?

The Startup Magazine

There are many good reasons to invest in cloud storage software, but with so many competing options, it’s hard to make a final decision. Ultimately, your decision should be based on your company’s biggest priorities. For example, if you need a lot of data storage space, the option with unlimited storage is going to stand out to you. But what exactly are your company’s top cloud storage priorities?

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9 Product Demo Examples that Stand Out & Convert

ConversionXL

A product demo is a critical tool in the sales process. It exists in the all-important consideration space between lead qualification and conversion, giving you the opportunity to show how your solution solves problems and makes prospects’ lives easier. Done right, it’s a deal maker. Done badly, you risk losing sales. In this article, you’ll learn what makes a compelling demo.

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14 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs. Growing empowerment and embracing of individuality is motivating more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Higher Education Budgeting Models

Board Effect

Since the 1980s, college tuition and fees have risen nearly twice as fast as inflation. That fact might lead some to believe tuition funds are the driving force behind budgets for higher education institutions, but that’s false. Tuition costs only cover about 20% for public institutions and 32% of college costs for private nonprofit schools. Private for-profit higher education institutions fare better, however, tuition costs only cover 91% of the total college costs.

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Where Social Media Fits In Your Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

Where Social Media Fits In Your Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Emeric Ernoult. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Emeric Ernoult. Emeric is the Founder and CEO of AgoraPulse – an easy-to-use all-in-one social media management software. Key Takeaway: Social media isn’t going anywhere, and it’s ever-evolving.

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Why Your Small Business Should Focus on Younger Customers

Up and Running

Targeting is a core concern for small businesses. Some are just getting started. Trying to figure out who they are and what their audiences should look like. Others are somewhat established but struggling to gain ground with so many rivals crowding the market. While there are many factors worth addressing (brand identity, content marketing, value propositions, etc.), targeting a specific audience underpins them all.

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7 Tips to Secure Electrical Safety in the Industrial Workplace

The Startup Magazine

Employees suffer several work-related injuries due to electrical mishaps. They can be at risk of electric shock or electrocution because of poor safety tips in the workplace. A job should never endanger the health of an employee regardless of the conditions. Implement electrical safety measures to avoid electrically induced injuries. Safety should be a priority in all industrial workplaces.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

When your business, book or podcast needs additional support, sponsorship can make a huge difference. Not only do corporate sponsors offer the capital to help you forge ahead, their backing brings new contacts and exposure to new audiences that can take your project to the next level. But it’s not as simple as reaching out to a company you want to collaborate with and putting their name on your website in exchange for cash.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no surprise?—?that’s where the customers are.

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Donor Stewardship Planning and Best Practices [Template Inside]

Board Effect

Nonprofit boards place a heavy focus on what motivates and attracts donors, and donor stewardship relations and best practices will ensure that donors have enough trust in your organization to make giving a standard practice. If donors make gifts to your nonprofit once, they’re bound to do it again. If they stop giving at any point, there’s generally a good reason behind it.

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The Remarkability Formula For Small Business Owners

Duct Tape Marketing

The Remarkability Formula For Small Business Owners written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with Rich Brooks. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.

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Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization

Steve Blank

A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency. I don’t know how many of these I’ve been to in the last couple years, but this one just made my head explode. The award was for an entrepreneur who worked against all odds to buck the system to turn her insight into an application. She had realized it was possible to automate a process that was being done manually – reentering data from one spreadsheet to another and annotating it with additional data f

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APIs Make the (Crypto) World Go Around

The Startup Magazine

If you are an average user of apps like the Uber app, you might not have noticed, but it’s not an app but rather an amalgamation of Application Programming Interfaces or APIs. The payment in the Uber app is processed through the Stripe API, the map and locations are managed through Google Maps API, and so on. An API (or “Application Programming Interface”) acts as a code intermediary for an app or service that allows other apps or services to request information or actions an

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9 Ways Your Business Leadership Language Must Change

Startup Professionals Musings

In this age of social media and world-wide Internet, message delivery from business leaders needs to change, just like the message changes from leaders in your personal lives. Just a few years ago, no one could have imagined getting text messages from parents, or a President prone to communicate via Twitter. Not only what you say, but how you deliver it shapes your impact.

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Analyst Cam: Cognizant "Timeline of Next"

deal architect

A few months ago, Cognizant asked a few market watchers to look at how we would live, work and learn differently as a result of the 2020 pandemic. Our forecasts were published in 16 themes in their Timeline of Next.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Few startups set out to compete with the biggest leaders in their respective industry. Even fewer attempt to compete with those leaders who happen to be among the biggest and most influential companies in the world. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that success for the challenger startups isn’t possible. Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates

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How AI Is Impacting The Marketing Industry

Duct Tape Marketing

How AI Is Impacting The Marketing Industry written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with Araks Nalbandyan. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.

Marketing 101
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8 Productivity Tips To Scale Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

As a startup, you need to stay productive to remain successful. Take note of these eight productivity tips that will help you. The post 8 Productivity Tips To Scale Your Startup appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Getting to the Core of Common Dropshipping Supplier Problems

The Startup Magazine

If you have strong marketing skills and good web sense, running a dropshipping business can be very lucrative. But like any business model, problems are sure to arise from time to time. Most of the problems dropshippers face come from supplier issues. So, check out these common dropshipping supplier problems and issues and find out how to avoid them.

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5 Entrepreneur Exasperations To Moderate Your Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. But nobody said it would be easy. The road to business success is filled with challenges and frustrations that most aspiring entrepreneurs never even imagined. In my role as advisor to many startups, I try to prepare them for the inevitable bumps in the road ahead, as well as to provide practical guidance on h

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Do You Really Need SEO?

Rembrandt Communications

What is Search Engine Optimization? How do you use it for a competitive edge? If search engine optimization ( SEO ) is not part of your content marketing strategy, why not? When your content is optimized correctly, it will appear in the rankings when potential customers search for your products and services online. If it’s not optimized, and your competition’s content is, guess who is going to get all of that new business?!

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Few startups set out to compete with the biggest leaders in their respective industry. Even fewer attempt to compete with those leaders who happen to be among the biggest and most influential companies in the world. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that success for the challenger startups isn’t possible. Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates

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How To Thrive With Purpose-Driven Digital Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Thrive With Purpose-Driven Digital Marketing written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with Stu Swineford. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.

Marketing 101
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Work-From-Home Scams And The Future Of The Hybrid Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Navigating the job market during the pandemic can be challenging for job seekers, but finding the right hybrid environment pays dividends. Always be mindful of scams veiled in supposed opportunity. The post Work-From-Home Scams And The Future Of The Hybrid Workplace appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How does Invoice Factoring work for a Manufacturing Company?

The Startup Magazine

The manufacturing industry is one of the most vital industries that require huge business capital. To stay competitive in the market, satisfy clients, and offer quality services, manufacturing companies often need to offer long-term payment plans. Manufacturers have a wide range of expenses that include purchasing raw materials and equipment, paying contractors and employees, renting warehouses- to name a few.

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5 Strategies For Dealing With Opposing Views At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

One thing is certain in any business – not everyone you have to deal with will be like you, or will like you (and vice versa). These people may include one of your business partners, an investor, a key vendor, or even one of your best customers. In my role as a business advisor, I see more and more how business people must bridge these differences to accomplish shared business goals.

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8 Ways To Keep Your Data Safe While Traveling

YFS Magazine

Luckily, protecting your data abroad doesn’t require buckets of money and loads of time, but it’s important to go about it deliberately.

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Positioning Your Brand in the Covid Era

ReadWriteStart

The lesson to retain about positioning your brand in the Covid Era? Lean In To What Makes You, You. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, you’ve been working hard on business plans, raising funds, building the perfect team , and doing everything else you needed to do to hit the ground running once you were ready and the world was “back to normal.” So, you have a startup that’s ready for the world?

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Breaking Down Silos For A Better Customer Experience

Duct Tape Marketing

Breaking Down Silos For A Better Customer Experience written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brandi Starr. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brandi Starr. Brandi is the Chief Operating Officer at Tegrita, a marketing consultancy specializing in marketing automation and strategy, and co-author of CMO to CRO: The Revenue Takeover by the Next Generation Executive.

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Kicking Ass In A Corset: The Jane Austen Toolkit For Every Entrepreneur In A Post Pandemic World

YoungUpstarts

Andrea Kayne shares the principles of Austen’s six heroines that every entrepreneur should keep in her toolkit. The post Kicking Ass In A Corset: The Jane Austen Toolkit For Every Entrepreneur In A Post Pandemic World appeared first on Young Upstarts.