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Product Launch Formula 3. How To Create Stellar Blog Content (Part I): An OPEN Forum Guide : Innovation. Trying to blog for your business but stuck in a creativity rut?

How To Create Stellar Blog Content (Part I): An OPEN Forum Guide : Innovation

OPEN Forum has some crafty tips for you. September 02, 2011 There’s a surfeit of voices on the Internet, all vying for their 15 minutes in the Google searchlight. Without good craftsmanship, SEO awareness and rigorous self-promotion, your blog is bound to get lost in the vacuum. 7 Best Blogging Platforms. Everyone’s got a blog these days and depending on your topic of choice, you can make a pretty sizeable name for yourself online.

7 Best Blogging Platforms

Now, you probably won’t garner any accolades by just picking a site and writing right out of the gate. Insights: On Innovating Amid Rapid Change - Entrepreneur Video Network - Entrepreneur.com. Business & Small Business Log In | Join Sign In with.

Insights: On Innovating Amid Rapid Change - Entrepreneur Video Network - Entrepreneur.com

Hype cycle. The Hype Cycle is a branded graphical presentation developed and used by IT research and advisory firm Gartner for representing the maturity, adoption and social application of specific technologies.

Hype cycle

Five phases[edit] general Hype Cycle for technology Each Hype Cycle drills down into the five key phases of a technology’s life cycle. The term "Hype Cycle" and each of the associated phases are now used more broadly in the marketing of new technologies. Is Pivoting a Smart Strategy for Young Entrepreneurs? Skip Advertisement This ad will close in 15 seconds...

Is Pivoting a Smart Strategy for Young Entrepreneurs?

Young Entrepreneurs. 7 Ways to Help Startup Workers Innovate. Being innovative is part of the DNA of a tech startup - or at least it should be.

7 Ways to Help Startup Workers Innovate

But when your employees are working 18-hour days, unleashing their inner innovators can be a challenge. These 7 tips can help get the ball rolling: 1. Blog #4.0: What eSports Business should I launch? So you’re ready to step up to the plate and begin growing your own eSports career.

Blog #4.0: What eSports Business should I launch?

Awesome! Before you take too many steps, allow me to stress a couple of lessons I wish I knew before I started! Lesson #1: Unique ideas don’t mean much. Pivoting (business strategy): How do you define a pivot. 3 Tips For Improving Your Design Process. While each website offers room for its own unique style and layout with your added dose of creativity, web designers are employed by a repetitive style of work – as far as process goes.

3 Tips For Improving Your Design Process

Nailing down a detailed web design process that works best for you will help you become more efficient in each project you take on. If you have a practiced guideline to follow, you’ll become faster and more skilled with every job. Here are three tips to improve your process. #1: Test, Test, Test Testing The Success of Your Web Designs.

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6 Ways To Create A Culture Of Innovation. This year's Consumer Electronics Show brought 170,000 people to the city of Las Vegas to peruse the latest tech offerings under the fluorescent lighting of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

6 Ways To Create A Culture Of Innovation

For technology companies, the trade show offers a chance to show off what they've been working on. For fans, it's an early glimpse at the products that will grace store shelves this year. 4 Keys To Turning Customers Into Brand Evangelists. Every day, we see signs that doing business today is more complex than ever.

4 Keys To Turning Customers Into Brand Evangelists

The developed economy continues to be sluggish, with 2.4% growth in the first quarter of 2013, and injections of liquidity are commonplace. That means in order to retain market share and keep up profitability, business leaders must continually look for new and innovative ways to engage their consumers. These are real, rational concerns for any organization. Free prototypes. By now we all know that successful startups focus on learning about their users — figuring out what features, branding, and messaging resonate and perform best.

Smart teams invest valuable time designing, building, testing, and iterating their own designs and prototypes based on learning from analytics and user studies. But don’t forget to test your competitors’ products too! Think of them as free, fully functional prototypes. By testing the “prototypes” your competitors have already built, you can learn a ton about users’ reactions to different designs, business models, and messaging. Bringing a 4G Wireless Network into Your Office. Your cloud connection is more important than ever. This new 4G office router could be the backup you need. Thanks to next-generation mobile broadband services, more business data are moving faster in more places than ever. Except perhaps one: The wireless network in your shop. Is Business Email Dead?

Some social media consultants have begun eulogizing email. They suggest employers cast out what they see as a dying communications tool, and, instead, encourage employees to use whatever social media channel they feel most comfortable with for a given communication. This assessment is premature. As an advocate of using social-media utilities and platforms for business-related purposes, I'm certainly not afraid of new communication platforms or devices. But endorsing tweets for example over email messages for group or one-to-one business correspondence is shortsighted. And if email is dead or dying, that certainly comes as news to me. How to Unleash Pet Lovers' Spending. How to Start a Startup.

March 2005. If Handing Off a Family Business to the Next Generation, What’s the Key Thing to Avoid? What’s the difference in performance between a family business where the CEO hands off leadership to a member of the family versus an outside CEO? That’s one of the questions our latest podcast, “The Church of Scionology,” tries to answer. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) Stanford economist Francisco Pérez-González has looked at the data to try to figure this out.

(His paper “Inherited Control and Firm Performance” can be found here). Ask Lifehacker - Lifehacker. Three Tips to Start a Consulting Business. Starting a consulting business is one way of drawing on your expertise and creatively making use of problem-solving skills. It’s a popular – and potentially lucrative -- avenue for aspiring business owners. The consulting industry in the U.S. generates nearly $100 billion in revenues each year, according to a Harvard Business School analysis conducted in 2007. How to Have a BIG Idea Altucher Confidential. Posted by James Altucher A friend of mine needs $2 billion. He has a big idea. The idea came first. There's Plan A, and then there's the plan that will become your business.

We need a word that captures the specific sort of pain entrepreneurs feel when their carefully developed startup ideas are met with blank indifference. Three Tips for Reinventing a Product.