My buddy Markus Frind famously claimed that he worked 10 hours per week building his website. All by himself, he was the CEO, CMO, lone support rep, server admin, PR agent, and everything else. Two years ago, he sold it for $575 million in cash. Not everyone will have that combination of genius and luck. […]
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You keep your great people and terminate the bad people- we all do that. But it’s the merely good people that will kill you. “Steve is a good guy”, you tell yourself. He didn’t do anything so egregious that he deserves getting fired. And maybe his performance will improve if you give him more time. After
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Created by /u/noise_filter (aka proxyrax) on 6/15/15 For all the controversy on Reddit, don’t ignore it as a traffic source. It was so popular that he made another animation and we got several more million views. Created by /u/noise_filter (aka proxyrax) on 6/17/15 If you’re a brand, you might not even realize there is a
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Hotwire make a mistake in my reservation. Hey, service failures happen and customer service managers have attitude. But this post is not about that– it’s about how to get your way without the stress of going round and round. Here’s what happened, if you’re interested. What matters is when you need to influence a few
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Because if you do, Social Media Examiner doesn’t want you. The founder and CEO of Social Media Examiner, Michael Stelzner, is one of the few people in our space that I truly admire– an incredibly deep thinker who takes the long-term, systems-level view. He explained to me that authors and speakers must meet specific criteria
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Meet Sophia, Hanson Robotics’ human-like robot that may embody the androids of our future.Read more: http://cnb.cx/1M8gFg1 Posted by CNBC International on Thursday, March 17, 2016 Obama warns that robots will take over jobs that pay less than $20/hour. And retail activists lobby for a $15/hour minimum wage. Both will get their way, with the unintended consequence
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I’m not talking about your company being acquired. I’m talking about looking at the language you use in your marketing campaigns. You have customer “acquisition” campaigns, email “blasts”, and other military conquest terminology. But put the shoe on the other foot and see how this looks from the customer’s perspective. Pretend you’re the customer to
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We’ve recently tried out some new analysts at Content Factory. Great way to test our 9-level analyst system. Most applicants are college-aged teen-to-early twenties, but people of all ages can join the program. However, it’s designed for students still in school, since we have college and classmate support. Harder to go through the program without
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6 years ago, JD Lasica, a high-power journalist who runs socialmedia.biz, reached out for an interview. I was so busy running Facebook ads that I was pondering whether to do the interview or get an hour of much-needed sleep. I’m so grateful I chose to forgo that hour of sleep. And when you look back on
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I’ve labored 20 years in business. Two decades. And here is a simple lesson I learned the hard way… The quick buck from shortcuts is a mirage. I’ve dabbled in affiliate marketing, toolbar installs, online gambling, dating sites, and many perfectly legal, but questionably ethical endeavors. Made millions on a couple, but usually lost my
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