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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

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In the early 2000s, Google encouraged an 80/20 policy, which gave employees the bandwidth to ideate, develop and innovate projects during 20% of their work schedule. It ultimately led to huge wins like Gmail AdSense and Google Maps—technology that has become mainstream all over the world and huge revenue drivers for the tech giant.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

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When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland. “I It was too much of a strain on my business and we lost money because of it,” he says. “We

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Google Panda 4.1 Leaks Provide More Complete Picture of Corporate SEO

Small Business CEO

2014 was another year full of computer hacks and data leaks, with more and more confidential information becoming available from every corner of the internet. At a time when giants such as Sony or the United States government are able to be targeted, the internet’s own Google is no exception. A Matter of Ethics.

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How to Boost Online Sales

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A way to track the effectiveness of your site: Lussier suggests the free tool Google Analytics to track the effectiveness of your opt-in efforts. Here are seven ideas for opt-in success: • E-guide: A wedding photographer might offer an article titled “What I Learned from Attending 105 Weddings.” Checklist: People love lists.

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Ep 227: David Karandish on Automation in the Workplace, Energy Management, and the Executive Assistant Partnership

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He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for $960m. David was also an early investor and board member at Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY), an on-demand, real-time learning platform in the ed tech space. David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids.

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Product/Program Promotion: Problems & Profits - Launching Lessons Learned Interview Dr. Venus Opal Reese Live Event Launch

Stephanie LH Calahan

Introducing Product/Program Promotion: Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned.    Thank you for your willingness to share some of your mistakes and lessons learned so that others could benefit!   What didn’t go so well during the launch and what were your lessons learned? Now you can!

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The Truth About Impostor Syndrome and How to Overcome It

Stephanie LH Calahan

A 2014 study on Impostor Syndrome shows that those people with it tend to undervalue their skills or fail to recognize how other opportunities might place more substantial importance on their abilities. You believe you should be able to learn something on the first try. Then, as you learn things, you can make modifications.

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