Pinterest Introduces Web Analytics, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week – blog.hubspot.com Email. Search engines. All those social networks. These channels and platforms are what make inbound marketing possible. Think about it. Without search engines, how would prospects find the content they’re looking for? If there were no such thing as social media, how could businesses still have scalable interactions with thousands of customers and prospects? Sometimes it blows my mind to think how far marketing has come just in the last few years — and how those changes just keep on coming… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Google...
10 Must-Read Inspiring Biographies of Business Leaders – youngentrepreneur.com Take a page from the book of the lives of these famous entrepreneurs. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Tips to Go Above and Beyond With Customer Service – entrepreneur.com Customer loyalty is hard to win and easy to lose. Here’s how to make the extra effort required to stand out from the competition. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » How to Get Email Newsletter Subscribers – businessknowhow.com Wondering how to get subscribers for your email list? Here are 17 email list building strategies that work to build an opt-in email list. Get...
Twitter Careers: New Jobs Posted This Week – mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ This continues our series highlighting new positions posted at Twitter each week. Check out past listings here. This week, Twitter added 20 new jobs to its career page. And here they are: continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. Continue Reading On mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ » Flickr updates its iOS app enabling hashtags to be added to any photo’s title, description, or search – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Flickr released an update on Saturday to its iOS application with hashtag support. Now, users are able to add a hashtag not only to a photo’s title or description, but they...
5 Content Marketing Links Worth Reading – copyblogger.com/blog/ This week on The Lede … The One Tool that Will Make You Better at Everything Is Audio The Next Big Thing In Digital Marketing? 4 Reasons Content is the Startup of the Future A “Revolutionary” Marketing Strategy Thomas Edison, Power-Napper Want to grab even more useful links (beyond those that make The Lede)? Follow @copyblogger on Twitter… Continue Reading On copyblogger.com/blog/ » The Top 5 Reasons People Aren’t Reading Your Blog! – spiceupyourblog.com Guest Post – Our host is Amy Harris, Amy is trying to get to the core problem of...
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 15, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Panda Update 25 Seems To Have Hit There are many webmasters and SEOs believing right now that Google has released an update to their Panda algorithm late… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com »
How to Center Align Your Embedded Tweets [Quick Tip] – blog.hubspot.com We love us some embedded tweets. They’re a great way to give your content a little pizzazz, and they help to enhance engagement with it, too — among other use cases. But a couple of months ago when we went to embed a tweet into one of our blog articles, we noticed that Twitter no longer included an out-of-the-box option to specify the alignment of embedded tweets like it used to… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Microsoft Study: Multi-Screen Behavior And What It Means For Marketers – marketingland.com We all...
How to Make Sure Your Business Gets Paid – entrepreneur.com The elements of prompt and accurate invoices. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » 4 Places to Find Big Ideas – inc.com Need to stop fighting fires and find time to think deeply? Here are four activities that can help even the busiest people make space in their schedule for big ideas.Business owners face a conundrum: The day-to-day functioning of your company keeps you super busy, so busy in fact that you generally have little time for the type of deep, strategic thinking on which the long-term success of your business depends…...
Does Collaboration Actually Hurt Productivity? – inc.com In some offices the insistence on collaboration is forcing people to take creative measures to focus. What’s the new etiquette when it comes to connection vs. concentration?Collaboration is all the rage (so much so that some are even speculating it might be the new greenwashing), but this trendy we’re-all-in-it-together ethos doesn’t just set off some folks’ hype sensors, it also presents other dangers… Continue Reading On inc.com » 3 Social Media Startups to Watch From SXSW 2013 – youngentrepreneur.com The ‘next big thing’ in social media might not have debuted this week, but...
Small businesses need to curb their spending anywhere they can. A small business spends the most on operating costs, like rent, office supplies, and even a few employees. However, there are a number of ways that small businesses can reduce their operating costs without hurting the business. If you are an already established small business or thinking about setting up shop, knowing where to cut corners can be important in getting your business to that sweet spot where you are actually turning a profit, and barely keeping your head above water. Here are 5 ways to reduce spending and small...
Irate / Foter.com / CC BY-SA Whether you have a head for finance or not, managing your small business banking affairs can be difficult. Finding the service you need, securing loans, and keeping accounts in order are all important tasks that require your attention. Business is very much a numbers game, and your success or downfall will largely depend on how you handle your business’s numbers. Remember these great tips for small business banking to keep your finances under control at all times. Don’t Mix Business with Personal Failure to keep business and personal finances separate is the cardinal sin...
5 Quick Tips for Better Bootstrapping From SXSW – youngentrepreneur.com The founders of popular image-hosting service imgur on what it takes to launch a tech startup without seeking outside investors. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Big Speech? You're Practicing Wrong – inc.com If you want to know how you really look to investors, it’s time to record yourself.Most CEOs never know how their pitch looks or sounds–until someone videotapes you at a pitching event. And then you watch the footage: OMG!You’re not alone. When I saw my first video, all I could think when I stared at my hands was...
5 Tips for Surviving the Shark Tank – inc.com If you get an opportunity to pitch your business to investors, following these five principles will help you secure funding for your growth.At some point, growth businesses need to raise capital. Funding from cash flow and the owners’ bank accounts are the best sources but are inherently limited, especially if you have a business that is scaling rapidly… Continue Reading On inc.com » A Simple Follow Up to Create More Profits In Your Business – .businessownersideacafe.com/ How many times have you attended a networking event, had a number of great conversations...
NYC Business Toasts on News of Judge Nixing Sugary Drink Ban – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com Local entrepreneurs cheered as NY state judge blocks Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on sugary drinks larger than 20 fluid ounces, which would have gone into effect Tuesday. Continue Reading On foxsmallbusinesscenter.com » MakerBot’s Bre Pettis on the Next Industrial Revolution – youngentrepreneur.com The 3-D printing visionary kicks off the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. His advice to entrepreneurs with a dream: “Believe that it’s possible.” Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » How to Build an Advisory Board – entrepreneur.com Why you should consider building an advisory team...
As the craze of the social media is increasing at a bigger pace so more people are thinking to veer away from the traditional channels like calling and emailing. To voice the opinion of companies, many are opting social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. If the company does not have someone to operate the social media channels for customer service and their related inquires and that to responding to them correctly – is just like turning of the droves of current and potential paying customers. There are customers who do not want to sit on the phone with the...
7 Thing You Should Still See at SXSW – inc.com South by Southwest Interactive is in full swing. Just arrived in Austin? Still going strong? Here’s how to make the most of the rest of the fest.Austin, Texas, is officially swarming with the young digital creatives of the world, as the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival is well underway. Congratulations if you’ve made it this far–and good luck powering through the next three days… Continue Reading On inc.com » College Startup Re-Imagines Bike Sharing – youngentrepreneur.com ViaCycle set out to design a GPS-enabled, stationless bike-share system. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com »...
How to Hire Superstar Employees – youngentrepreneur.com Making sure you hire the best employees — and the right employees — for your business isn’t a matter of luck. Here are six steps you should take to guarantee you’ll land superstar talent. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Yammer Founder David Sacks' 3 Tips for Tech Entrepreneurs – entrepreneur.com From raising capital fast to being innovative, startup advice from the SXSW Interactive festival. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com »
10 Tips for Successful Business Networking – businessknowhow.com Want to make your business networking more effective? Here are ten tips to keep in mind. Continue Reading On businessknowhow.com » From Mobile to Social Media to Disruptive Tech: A Preview of This Year’s SXSW Interactive – youngentrepreneur.com A look inside the tech world’s go-to event for creatives and innovators. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Alexis Ohanian: How I Got Washington to Listen to Start-ups – inc.com Now, the Reddit co-founder keeps getting asked: When are you going to run for Congress?Every couple weeks, someone asks Alexis Ohanian when he’s going to...
Online Microlenders Offer Capital to Young Businesses – youngentrepreneur.com An eBay merchant quadruples his revenue with help from an online microlender. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Is It Possible to Have Too Many Ideas? – inc.com Not if you can develop a good process for managing them.Some investors hate it when you bring them more than one idea. In their minds, this equates to a lack of focus. They see a person with a lot of ideas as some type of mad scientist, and they assume he or she isn’t a good businessperson. I’m not like this… Continue Reading On...
4 Strategies Used by Superstar Athletes to Become Super Focused – youngentrepreneur.com Sports greats use these methods to focus on boring tasks without procrastinating, here’s how you can too. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint: The Real Reason Start-ups Fail – inc.com Ask 10 entrepreneurs why startups fail and you’ll get 10 different answers. But there’s just one simple cause underlying all of them.If you ask 10 successful entrepreneurs or venture capitalists why start-ups fail, you’ll probably get 10 different answers. That’s because there’s no shortage of common failure modes:- They don’t solve a big...
It Never Pays to Be a Know-It-All – inc.com The former head of Columbia Records learned early on what all CEOs must do: Embrace your strengths–and hire around your weaknesses.Clive Davis started his career as a lawyer. As he recounts in his new autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life, Davis spent several years working as general counsel for Columbia Records before a fortuitous political reorganization landed him at the helm of the company… Continue Reading On inc.com » Maintaining Your Startup's Focus – entrepreneur.com Too many passions can derail you. Find one that sticks. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » 13...
3 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Naming Your Business – entrepreneur.com Here’s a look at three entrepreneurs who have changed company names and the lessons they learned. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Survey Says: Start a Business, It Might Improve Your Sex Life – inc.com Some of the perks of owning a small business? More freedom, better sleep and more sex.In January, my Inc.com colleague Selena Cuffe wrote that, though her evidence was purely anecdotal, she believed that entrepreneurship was highly correlated with a better sex life. Turns out the evidence isn’t just anecdotal… Continue Reading On inc.com » Jason...
