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Why your ecommerce business needs to start as an affiliate site
There is a lot of risk involved in starting an ecommerce business. For one, most would-be merchants don’t know what products ...
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13 ways entrepreneurs can help their company guard against hacking
As technology evolves, so do hackers' techniques, something which puts tremendous pressure on organizations to constantly ...
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We shouldn’t care about companies accepting Bitcoin in 2019
Bitcoin – the original cryptocurrency – has been around for a decade, but it’s still struggling to achieve mainstream ...
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What businesses can learn from the political divide in the US
By the time you read this, I hope US government workers have at least received their far-delayed pay owed to them for their ...
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Years after brutal $2M hack, Gatecoin cryptocurrency exchange is dead
Seminal cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin is dead, years after it lost $2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum belonging to its ...
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Israel regulators support ‘heavily regulated’ cryptocurrency trading platform
An Israeli financial market regulator has given its recommendation for the creation of a heavily regulated cryptocurrency ...
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Shell is recruiting science graduates to build blockchain use cases for oil and gas
The world's fifth largest oil and gas producer in the world, Royal Dutch Shell, is looking to train the next generation of ...
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13 AR and VR systems entrepreneurs can't wait to see in 2019
With new tech innovations constantly on the horizon, businesses must always be looking out for the "next big thing." Gaining ...
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Carrefour will use blockchain to let curious mammals know where their milk came from
French supermarket giant Carrefour is pouring milk all over its blockchain, allowing its customers to see the whole thing ...
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Ask TNW's founders ANYTHING about our Financial Times deal
By now, you might have heard the news that TNW has sold a majority stake to the — and we don’t use this word lightly ...
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Report: Anonymity could be the answer to feeling happier online
Social media usage has been proven to have negative effects on our mental health but a recent study has revealed that the ...
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8 PR trends that will actually happen in 2019
As PR professionals, we have all nearly done a good job surviving another year in this industry, and yes, I consider “you’re ...
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This is how I started a successful B2B tech company
Less than a decade ago, I left a high-paying tech job in New York City to found my own SEO-optimization company. It was a ...
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Don’t call it an ‘exit’ — An entrepreneur’s guide to selling your startup
Every startup is a seed about to grow into something bigger, whether as an independent company or as a perfect fit for an ...
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Google’s two-pronged plan to dominate consumer-to-business messaging
At the end of last year, Google announced it was officially pulling the plug on Allo, its latest in a long list of failed ...
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon’s not-so-secret weapon for success: M&A
Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an established CEO, growing your business is always job number one. It’s how you’ll ...
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Here’s how you can properly vet overseas manufacturers for your ecommerce business
Of all the questions my consulting clients ask, there is one that comes up more often than all the others combined. It goes ...
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How enterprise social media like Slack can improve well-being in the workplace
We live in a world where technology is increasingly ubiquitous and showing no signs of slowing down. Whether in our professional ...
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12 optimization tips for businesses looking to tap into wearable tech
From the Apple Watch Series 3 to the Fitbit Versa and all the new tech in-between, wearable tech has been taking over for ...
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Online pricing algorithms are working together to make your life more expensive
Have you ever searched for a product online in the morning and gone back to look at it again in the evening only to find ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Hungary
By Gianluca Bellan and Andrea Hak Hungary is a startup hub on the rise. You’ve no doubt already heard of Prezi, the ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Denmark
What more could you want from a country where fairy tales, Lego, and the idea of the chill ‘hygge’ vibe originate? Now ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Norway
A country of never-ending sunsets, northern lights, and home to over 50 thousand islands and fjords, Norway has always been ...
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4 years after adopting Bitcoin, this business is still waiting for someone to use it
Seymour Locksmiths started accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency in September 2014, but over four years later, none ...
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Sears’ bankruptcy underscores the need for tech innovation in retail
The demise of Sears provides a perfect cautionary tale. By all accounts, the former retail giant -- which was in a “death ...
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TNW and the Financial Times partner for TNW2019
Our annual technology conference is fast approaching. On May 9 and 10, we’ll bring together the brightest minds in the ...
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13 ways to get customers to choose your app over the competition's
Competition between apps can be fierce. It’s no longer just about selling a great product and doing some light advertising ...
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Marketing and CX enter the age of machine learning, but are businesses ready?
There is no longer a delineation between digital and traditional customers. Anyone with a smartphone traverses between online ...
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Luckily, AI still needs humans to succeed
Humans look at AI in both awe and fear. When I tell folks that I work for a company that builds AI-powered virtual assistants, ...
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JP Morgan’s new digital 'coin' is not a cryptocurrency, or even a stablecoin
Do we really need another digital payment thing for institutional players to send money between themselves? JP Morgan says ...
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Intel takes on IBM and Microsoft with its own ‘off-the-shelf’ blockchain packages
Intel is expanding its blockchain offering even further to make it easier for businesses to get into the blockchain game. ...
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Public pensions back new $40M blockchain fund raised by Morgan Creek
The pension funds of the Fairfax County police and its employees are now invested in blockchain, thanks to a new $40M digital ...
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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company
This article was originally published on Medium by Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. In 2011 I left my job ...
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This company introduced 5-hour working days and magical things happened
For our ongoing series Fundamentals, we’re looking at different companies worldwide and the basic principles they were ...
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This (free) 'future of tech' webinar will get you your next raise
Artificial intelligence, the blockchain, Internet of Things. You know you’ve heard these terms about a thousand times but ...
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Here's how male (and white) VC firms are
CB Insights released its top 100 VC influencers, and guess what? There are only 9 women on the whole list. This isn't how ...
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Venture capital is really male and really really white — Arlan Hamilton wants to fix it
Arlan Hamilton, CEO and founder of Backstage Capital, wants to see more color in venture capital. Backstage focuses on ...
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AI isn’t here to steal your job, it’s here to make it better
The belief that AI will displace jobs has been well countered with arguments that AI actually empowers workers to focus on ...
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Personalized marketing will be huge in 2019
Personalization has come a long way since Amazon started leveraging personalized book recommendations in 1999. Half of companies ...
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South Korean government gives tax break to blockchain trailblazers
The South Korean government is giving the blockchain industry a tax break in a bid to help foster innovation in decentralized ...
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Thai SEC grants four and denies two cryptocurrency licenses
The Thai SEC has granted operating licenses to four applications from businesses wanting to operate digital asset and cryptocurrency-based ...
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ShapeShift lays off 37 staff as ‘crypto winter’ takes hold
The "crypto winter" is far from over and cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift is the latest to fall victim to its harsh ways. ...
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On our obsession with design methods — and how to avoid it
A design method is simply a set of steps you can refer to, so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time ...
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Female-founded companies are making better sex toys and confronting taboos
In an industry traditionally dominated by men, women are now making more sex toys than ever before The lack of female ...
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Let's stop worshipping Silicon Valley in 2019
Silicon Valley is basically this American generation’s Detroit. It’s a business hub, an economic engine, and the stuff ...
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Vodafone, Huawei, Intel and friends form blockchain industry group
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is getting in the blockchain game, having set up a new industry ...
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Let’s face it, users should never be the last line of defense in cybersecurity
Users have walked a very insecure tightrope for decades, clicking on links and opening untrusted attachments. It's time we ...
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Sales processes need a tech upgrade, and these technologies will provide it in 2019
Sales robots will replace salespeople. Machines will sell machines to other machines. Efficiency will peak, and humans will ...
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WhatsApp Business finally rolls out for Android — and it’s totally free (for now)
After years of waiting and limited trials, businesses finally have their own WhatsApp solution. The company today launched ...
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10 reasons for entrepreneurs to love open-source software
Small- to medium-sized businesses have different obstacles than larger businesses. Sometimes that means that the same ...
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Blockchain startups forced to lay off staff to survive the bear market
A litany of blockchain businesses have been crippled by this years sustained cryptocurrency market downturn, and many are ...
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US government building tools to deanonymize anonymous cryptocurrencies
If you thought you were safe using privacy coins like Zcash and Monero, think again, the US government is developing forensic ...
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Japanese authorities form pact to hunt cryptocurrency tax evaders
The Japanese government is developing a system to catch those who are not paying the appropriate taxes on the profits made ...
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Swiss blockchain startups can now handle up to $100M – just like banks
Swiss cryptocurrency startups can now apply for a new license, allowing them to handle deposits of up to $100 million, a ...
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How opportunistic regulation can stifle innovation in blockchain
At the blockchain conferences and blockchain industry discussions over the last two years I had many chances to listen to ...
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma opens a startup hub in Kigali to support Afrikan innovation
A new hub has been opened in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to assist the country's small and medium-sized enterprises, as well ...
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Every startup founder's alternate realities: Business and fundraising
As a founder, I’m always working. In fundraising mode, I work all day, every day, supporting our customers, and talking ...
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5 female entrepreneurs on how to perfect a pitch
With only two percent of all US venture capital going to female founders in 2017, saying women have it tough when pitching ...
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Gig workers are forced to educate themselves to survive
Today’s gig workers don’t just include your local Uber drivers or handymen on TaskRabbit. More knowledge workers are ...
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Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News
Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. ...
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International Bitcoin miners vanish after stacking up $1.5M debt in Sweden
Sweden is playing host to a cryptocurrency mining mystery. Two mining operations have shut up shop and disappeared, leaving ...
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5 crucial lessons learned from 2 years of building TNW’s tech hub
Two years ago, we opened the doors to TQ — TNW’s first tech hub in the center of Amsterdam. At the time, I was organizing ...
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The rise of femtech funding clearly shows it's not a ‘niche’
This year the femtech industry is set to see more than $400 million, the most amount of funding than any year in the last ...
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Why digital tools you use in your personal life should be on your CV
I entered the workforce in 1998 during the midst of the dotcom bubble. To stay relevant in a highly competitive and unpredictable ...
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October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy
The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing ...
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Is Tim Cook the champion of privacy?
Today’s ceaseless data scandals have everyone talking about privacy, especially insofar as our favorite digital devices ...
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3 handy features in Google For Jobs to measure your hiring campaign’s success
Google For Jobs has made a great impact on the jobs market ever since it was released by the search giant in June 2017. There's ...
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This Day in Deals: Discounted laptops in honor of a brilliant computer scientist
This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. ...
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6 reasons why you should make your ‘digital consultants’ work on-site
In the future, all companies will be tech companies. Traditional firms must upgrade their technological capabilities to match ...
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Why CEOs that say ‘no’ are good for growth
It’s no surprise that life as a startup CEO can be brutally exhausting, with long, grueling workweeks, constant stress, ...
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Tesla’s woes unlikely to end soon, but startups can take a cue
“Funding secured.” When Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted the above statement early August, it kickstarted a ...
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Your business needs a style guide — here’s why
Companies are interesting creatures. In a legal sense, a company is a person, as it has all the rights that you and I do. ...
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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria
Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, ...
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Tattoodo wants to be the Booking.com of getting inked
Tattoodo has launched a platform that will allow people from across the world to find and book their next tattoo online.
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Women get just 47 cents in equity for every $1 awarded to male colleagues
The gender pay disparity isn't a secret. We know that women make $0.82 for every dollar a man makes, still, in 2018. It's ...
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5 reasons why all teams need to work remotely
I assume you know enough about remote work teams - the challenges, systems, tools, and more. But luckily that doesn’t apply ...
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Major cryptocurrency exchange delists Bitcoin Gold following $18M hack
A major cryptocurrency exchange is delisting Bitcoin Gold after a series of debilitating heists amounting to over $20 million ...
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Samsung's new tech further blurs the line between banks and blockchain
Samsung SDS has created a blockchain-powered signature system for banks that lets users verify their identity just once every ...
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To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees
Looking for new candidates can be an expensive process. Actively encouraging your employees to spend time on their learning ...
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3 simple ways to nurture your culture when you start to scale
As you start to scale, the risk of diluting your culture becomes so much more real. Here's how to nurture your culture, no ...
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North Korean hackers are targeting cryptocurrency traders with fake software
Kaspersky Labs has discovered a North Korean hacking crew is targeting cryptocurrency traders by trojanizing exchange software. ...
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Thieves use $2.3M in counterfeit money to shake down cryptocurrency millionaire
South Korean businessman has exchanged $2.3M worth of cryptocurrency for cash - only to find the banknotes were cheap fakes ...
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Blockchain can’t fix everything, consulting giant BCG reports
A new report has issued a sobering call: be aware that blockchain technology is not suitable for every industry, especially ...
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Twitter is now recommending users follow cryptocurrency scambots
Despite constant pressure to ban them, Twitter has been recommending users follow obvious cryptocurrency scambots impersonating ...
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FBI warns of massive ATM scam that could affect banks worldwide
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently warned banks that cybercriminals are poised to carry out an "ATM cash-out," ...
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Big banks want to issue new blockchain bond on Ethereum, but there’s a catch
Even the World Bank isn’t immune to the hype: it wants a bank in Australia to issue the first bond managed completely via ...
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Women founders get less funding than men but make double the revenue
According to a recent study from BCG, female founders of start up companys receive less funding but make double the revenue ...
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GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it
It's been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise ...
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Millions of webstores can now accept cryptocurrency through Coinbase
The new plugin enables WooCommerce webstores to accept cryptocurrencies through a user-controlled Coinbase wallet without ...
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All this hellish red robot wants to do is clap at you
Have you ever sat on a hillside in the dead of the night, gazed towards the heavens, and thought, “why oh why, dear lord, ...
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3 ways regulations need to change for the drone industry to take off
The drone industry is on the cusp of a revolution, with consumer adoption expanding and commercial applications growing, ...
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My team used to suck at meetings, but now people are begging us to share our secret sauce
Think you hate meetings? My colleagues and I were so sick of them that we teamed up with Chelsea Handler to build an excuse ...
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Data shows people want serious long-form content — and brands need to take note
You probably noticed the recent video that asked people whether they heard “Yanny” or “Laurel.” It would have been ...
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3 things your startup should consider outsourcing
In the competitive world of startups, founders should focus on core business operations without distractions. But at the ...
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Startups! Here's what you need to know before taking on Asia
Once your startup has taken off in your local market, expanding geographically is a natural next step. Asia is likely to ...
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This site helps you find cheap startup domain names that aren't completely shit
Domainz.co is an entrepreneur's best friend.
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13 ways companies should improve their data security in the age of IoT
As our world gets more and more connected, consumers and businesses alike must think fast about how they protect important ...
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7 most common data visualization mistakes
In dataviz, as in any other field, there are rules, best practices, guidelines and then there is common sense. And contrary ...
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How to determine your social media marketing budget
As every marketing dollar is a critical resource, how do businesses determine what to spend on social media?
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7 personality traits of great designers
To be a good designer, you need more than just mastery of design skills and a good eye. With more and more companies hiring ...
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10 reasons to use a new domain extension for your business
It’s time to stop flooding the internet with skipped vowels and incorrect spellings just to get a short domain name that ...
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New kid on the digital block: What does a Chief Experience Officer actually do?
In order to understand what the CXO does, you have to take a step back to understand why the position was created in the ...
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The secrets to successful kickoff meetings
The kickoff meeting for a new project can often be dominated by egos jostling for position. Here's a step-by-step guide to ...
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How to partner with a larger company when you’re a startup
The number of new startups is rapidly increasing. According to the 2015 Kaufman Index, which measures startup activity, for ...
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6 personalities in every office - and how to manage them
The more managers understand about personality, and the different personality types on their teams, the easier it becomes ...
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9 ways of gathering meaningful data about your customers
Understanding your customers better isn't as complex as you might think, but it does require a thoughtful analysis of where ...
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3 creative ways to choose a brand name
If you’ve ever attempted to name a company, you know that the process can be grueling. These creative ways to choose a ...
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Here’s everything a one-person company needs to schedule and organize like a boss
Sure, you can book appointments with the help of an app like Google Calendar or Outlook...or you can just create your own ...
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Find out how to get a team of business pros backing your new venture for under $40
The resources of Startups.co University want to make sure you don’t stumble down the wrong roads...which is why you can ...
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Attack three huge business problem areas in just 30 days
If you’re focused on starting a business, growing a brand or bolstering your technical skills, there’s a 30-day plan ...
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Master promoting and selling online with this digital marketing masterclass—only $9
Digital marketing has advanced by leaps and bounds this century, and it’s time to know all the inside info that can push ...
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Learn how top marketers sell virtually anything online
You can learn all the elements that go into marketing success with this Complete Affiliate Marketing course bundle, which ...
