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7 Fatal (and Common) Mistakes Threatening Your Startup’s Success

Most startups fail. It’s the nature of business—there isn’t enough room for everyone. And as anyone who has founded a successful (or unsuccessful) business can attest, there are about a thousand different ways to crash...

byPatrick Clements

April 3, 2019

4 Simple (Yet Brilliant) Ways to Nurture Your Lead Generation Efforts

Lead generation is one of the most important parts of starting up a successful business. You constantly need new prospects to fuel your sales and build your customer base. While there are many ways to...

byLucas Miller

March 27, 2019

How to Hook Your Customers by Making Them the Hero of the Story

Storytelling is one of marketing’s biggest buzzwords. Everyone is doing it, but not everyone is getting the response they hoped for. One of the main reasons storytelling fails to deliver promised results is because startups...

byKeith Shields

March 26, 2019

How to Build a Brand and Tell Your Startup’s Story

The market today is saturated with brands. So, how do you create a one that stands out from the crowd? Building a solid foundation and crafting a compelling story for your brand will not only...

byNikki Richard

March 25, 2019

A Lesson for Entrepreneurs: Use the Power of Simplicity to Grow Your Business

I once learned a valuable lesson in a hotel lobby bar in Shanghai while sharing a bottle of good old American Johnny Walker with a half dozen other professors. We were pontificating over life and...

bySid Mohasseb

March 24, 2019

6 Reasons Why Startups Should Use Chatbots

Delivering a positive customer experience should be a priority for every startup. With 50 percent of consumers switching brands because of poor service, you could risk your fledgling enterprise’s future if you overlook the quality...

byJT Ripton

March 23, 2019

How This Entrepreneur Used Credit Cards to Grow Her Business

Lorena Tomasini, together with her mother, owns MALM Life and Health Insurance Agency, a business based in Miami. Tomasini works with families and small business owners, helping them navigate life and health insurance. “We’re brokers...

byNav

March 22, 2019

The Art of Bootstrapping: How to Start a Business with Little to No Money

Bootstrapping is a term that has long been applied to entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process. According to Dictionary.com, when used as a verb, bootstrapping means to “help oneself without the aid of others.” In the...

bySimon Slade

March 21, 2019

4 Collaboration Tools That Help Entrepreneurs to Work Smarter

The modern-day entrepreneur is an expert in utilizing technology to manage and market themselves and their business. But there are simple, agile ways to streamline your focus and grow your company, as well. Collaboration tools...

byElaine Murray

March 21, 2019

7 Tactics for Promoting, Sharing and Repurposing Your Blog Content

Are you crafting amazing pieces of content? You know, that legendary 10x content everyone keeps talking about? If so, that’s a great start. But what good is incredible content if no one sees it? All of the...

by Jayneberinger64

March 20, 2019

When Your Startup Should Pivot (and When it Shouldn’t)

“Pivot” may be the one word that entrepreneurs and the television show “Friends” have in common. In either case, you hear it all the time. But a pivot isn’t always the best choice for your...

byKenneth Burke

March 19, 2019

6 Things to Consider Before Listing Your Startup to Online Directories

Online directories are a great way for businesses to expand their recognition to audiences previously out of reach. For small businesses and startups, this is a great way to ensure you stay competitive while you...

byReuben Yonatan

March 14, 2019

5 Reasons Why It’s Imperative to Immerse Yourself Into Your Target Industry

Startup culture loves big pictures and disruptive ideas. Not only is the ability to give a compelling pitch a necessary part of fundraising, but it’s also a boon to leadership. Setting that “North Star” with...

byMax Farrell

March 13, 2019

4 Email Marketing Promotion Tactics to Boost Your Next Piece of Content

by Jayneberinger64

March 13, 2019

4 Tips to Make Your Blog Your Startup’s Top Marketing Tool

One of the top reasons that startups fail is poor marketing. If you’re looking for effective marketing ideas to pursue, consider joining the 55 percent of marketers whose top marketing priority is content creation. Your...

byRachel Blakely-Gray

March 10, 2019

What is Dropshipping and How Do I Make it Into a Business?

Have you heard of dropshipping? Are you curious about how it works or how to start a dropshipping business? Then you’ve come to the right place. Dropshipping has become a popular way for entrepreneurs to...

byLiam Pedley

March 9, 2019

Create Less Content, Repurpose More and Drive Serious Traffic to Your Lead Magnets in 4 Steps

In recent studies, 44 percent of marketers claimed that content production is one of their top challenges. And we get it. It takes a ton of time, resources and editing to create new content. Time...

byShaina Weisinger

March 8, 2019

7 Social Media Promotion Tactics to Try With Your Next Piece of Content

by Jayneberinger64

March 7, 2019

9 Secrets To Winning (and Keeping) Customers For Life

No matter how the world changes, one principle stays the same: A business needs customers to remain viable. These moguls and Advisors in The Oracles share their tried-and-true strategies for winning over clients — and holding on...

byThe Oracles

March 7, 2019