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AIN: YOU CAN’T GET NO SOCIAL MEDIA SATISFACTION

Small businesses can’t afford to ignore customer feedback, no matter how positive or negative…

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REID’S EYE VIEW: HOW OLD TECHNOLOGY HAS FOUND NEW USES…

Whatever happened to the traditional phone booth? It’s numbers decreased while it’s usefulness increased!

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GIVERS TAKE ALL: THE HIDDEN DIMENSION OF CORPORATE SOCIETY

Across a number of diverse contexts, organizations benefit when employees freely contribute their knowledge and skills to others….

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COPYBLOGGER: THE 7 BAD HABITS OF INSANELY PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE

If you sometimes flake out — flake out on things that are important and worth your while — welcome to the club.

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AIN: HOW SUCCESSFUL START-UPS GOT GLOBAL USER TRACTION

This infographic digs into the many paths that took successful companies from 1 user to thousands, and later millions.

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HBR: YOU’RE PROBABLY WRONG ABOUT HOW OTHERS REALLY SEE YOU

search for yourself online. What comes up first? Is it what you expected? Is it what you’d like to convey to the world…?

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ANGEL INVESTMENT NETWORK: THE GLOBAL WEEKLY FUNDING ROUND-UP

Here’s a roundup of some of the recent seed-stage and angel deals from around the world:

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MINTLIFE: 7 FREE APPS TO HELP SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE; PAPERKARMA, BRIGHTNEST…

Want the can’t-live-without-it way to keep track of your finances, making financial decisions easy…?

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THE DEAD MULE AUCTION: CURTIS & LEROY EXPLAIN THE US BAILOUT PROGRAMME

Leroy said,”Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998.”

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CARSON MCCOMAS: THE MOST IMPORTANT ENTREPRENEURIAL LESSON

The market cares only if what you’ve done is a fit for their needs….

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ONSTARTUPS: MEASURING WHAT MATTERS – HOW TO PICK A GOOD METRIC

Being able to compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors helps you understand which way things are moving….

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LIFEHACKER: LESSONS I HAVE LEARNED IN A YEAR WHILE WORKING ON MY OWN

After a year of renting my desk at Studiomates, I could easily say I will never go back to working at home…

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MARK SUSTER: HOW TO STOP PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TAKING OVER YOUR CO.

you need to be careful not to accept projects that are too far out of the core business….

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BRAD FELD: MEET “SPHERO”, THE ROBOT BALL YOU CAN CONTROL WITH YOUR iPHONE

Every once in a while you come across something that just makes you go hmmmmmmmmmm…..

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BABBAGE ON CROWD FUNDING: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE CROWD LEAVES?

Demand for crowdfunded projects seems to have picked up after several high-flying 2012 fundraisers that suffered delays…

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MIKE WILLIAMS: PERPLEXED ABOUT WHY THE MARKET’S UP & THE NEWS SEEMS SO BAD?

the crowd misses about 70% of what the markets deliver in returns because of “Investor Behaviour”.

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ALAN STEEL: THE WINNERS & LOSERS – WHY IT TAKES THREE BRICKS TO MAKE A TREND

Albert Einstein thought the best discovery of mankind was Compound Interest….

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SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS: 8 STEPS TO MIGRATE TO YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER BASE

Follow a proven series of steps that make it crystal clear what you need to do and how to do it, without suffering a reduction in financial results….

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MCKINSEY QUARTERLY: SIX SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS EVERY LEADER NEEDS

There’s a mismatch between the logic of participatory media and the still-reigning 20th-century model of management and organizations…

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COPYBLOGGER: ASK THE CONTENT MARKETING KNOW-IT-ALL YOUR QUESTIONS……

I thought I’d respond in detail to a few comments from recent Copyblogger posts…

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QUICK SPROUT: NEIL PATEL – HOW TO GET 176 COMMENTS PER BLOG

The number one reason I respond to comments is because I think it sucks to get no reply,…

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MIKE WILLIAMS: STRONG MARKET FOUNDATIONS & OTHER REASONS TO BE HAPPY

Accept risk as a portion of all investing and then your expectations will be set on a more even keel…

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BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE: THE IMPORTANCE OF BENEVOLENT DICTATORS

It’s hard being a leader. By definition leaders make hard choices given incomplete information….

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ON STARTUPS: HOW TO GET MEDIA COVERAGE FOR YOUR STARTUP – A COMPLETE GUIDE

If you learn to blog, you will learn to become a better writer. You will understand why one headline gets shared more than others…

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MIXERGY: ART PAPAS ASKS – IS YOUR BUSINESS IDEA GENIUS (OR DOES IT SUCK)?

Want to know the best way to come up with revenue-generating ideas? I mean, ideas people are going to be dying, eager for you to build so that they could give you money…?

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IBISWORLD: HOW VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR AND THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS

With a growing number of ways for advertisers to market their products, the amount of competition against the Newspaper Publishing industry is escalating….

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