Freshness Usefulness Summary A personal branding book that provides a process and guideline to being truly authentic online. We marketers have a saying “Your mess is your message.” And whenever I tell a business owner to be open about their humanity, I get this startled deer-in-the-headlights kind of stare. “What?! Why would I want to […]
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Freshness Usefulness Summary An academic look at artificial intelligence for business. It contains research and case studies on how to incorporate AI into your business. Allow me to introduce you to the phrase of the decade. That’s AI (Artificial Intelligence) for business. Artificial intelligence (AI) has infiltrated our lives like some form of body snatcher.
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Freshness Usefulness Content Marketing Rebellion shows small business owners that they’ve had it right all along. It is a treatise on the evolution of marketing for marketers and businesses who want to thrive in a no-BS marketplace. I’ve just received my copy of Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins by Mark Schaefer, and boy
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Usefulness Content Freshness The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur is a day-by-day guide for business owners. Written as a daily meditation, each chapter starts with a quote, followed by a history lesson and ending with a daily action step. As an entrepreneur, you always face demands on your time and attention. You start each day feeling like a
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Usefulness Content Freshness “Built Not Born” is like getting hours of business mentoring time with a billionaire. Five stars! Can a billionaire’s advice book be relevant to an entrepreneur or small business owner? That is a question I usually start with when I pick up a book written by an uber-successful person. Sometimes such books
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At Single Grain, we’re readers. After all, when we hire employees, we’re not just hiring them for what they’ve done in the past. We handpick our team members because we hope and believe they can contribute now and truly flourish in the future. If that sounds weird, think of your business as a baseball team
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Marketers have written extensively about how businesses should improve their marketing. It’s a problem for small businesses, too. But how much consideration is spent on nonprofits, particularly small organizations as they, like small businesses, adopt the same digital marketing tactics as those meant for retailers? To speak to this consideration, nonprofits and financing managers should
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Experts have a lot to say about starting a business, and even about finding success. But what about advice for how to manage the critical intermediate challenges that certainly appear when an organization is growing? One author that tackles those challenges is Scott Belsky through his latest book The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through The Hardest and
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God save the queenThe fascist regimeThey made you a moronA potential H bomb God save the queenShe’s not a human beingand There’s no futureAnd England’s dreaming —God Save The Queen, The Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols received a host of criticism regarding the opening lines of their famous song titled the same
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Who’s serving who? Technology is here to serve you, but when you find yourself checking your phone for notifications or if you’re responding to team emergencies while at dinner or a concert — then you are serving technology. And that, says Dan Schawbel, isn’t making you the leader you need to be. There are enough
