Think Big, Act Small #4. Learning Early, Inexpensively and Correctly: the Role of Testing & Measuring in Marketing
As your marketing shifts from planning to execution, it’s important to structure tests to understand how well your marketing is ...
4 Strategies for a Successful Pitch to a National Retail Chain
Getting your product into a big-box store is a dream for many entrepreneurs. Here’s how one company nailed the opportunity. ...
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We all have to communicate and collaborate with other people at work, but most of us start out instinctively trying ...
3 Ways the Latest MRC Guidelines Will Help Social Media Startups
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Yahoo's $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site. Many other highflying Web startups may ...
How I End Every Day with Zero Emails
Email has taken over our business day as well as nights and weekends. At the beginning of this year, I ...
How to Build More Effective Calls to Action (CTAs) on Social Media
If you’re maintaining a steady presence on social media, you’re doing your customers a favor by always being accessible to ...
7 Keys to Business Success Learned From the Street
As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs, I find it’s easy to recognize “street smarts” when I see them, but ...
The Elephant Threat to Big Tech
What do you get when you cross Google with a toy elephant? A threat to sales growth for some big ...
The Secret Ingredient in Food Entrepreneurship: Purpose
"She highlighted a shift in values critical to consumers when shopping for food. Consumers are no longer just focused on…"