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5 Things That Will Save Your Professional Career (Read Before January 2021)
By: Marcin Krykowski
Tags: Skills, Business Development, Personal Development, Career Advice, Career Development

Things I’ll mention here apply to any profession at any time. It will help you to grow no matter if you’re an experienced manager or still a student.

1. Learn how to manage your personal finance.

Living at the level you cannot afford is immaturity.

This year has been tough.

If you were prepared and got some financial reserves — good. If not then think about how you can improve.

Think about the long term goal.

Prepare your plan.

Execute it. Do not hurry. Set your own pace. But keep in mind what you want to achieve.

It will help you to sleep better, be prepared for any situation but also can help you to negotiate better and make more brave choices.

2. Write for yourself.

You should have a blog or a private notebook.

Write there about your days, hobbies or business ideas.

First of all, it will help you to communicate better.

Secondly, your notes may deliver value for you or others.

Think about how to deliver your thoughts clearly. At work be a volunteer that can write down some meeting minutes.

You won’t notice when you will be invited to C-level meetings that can bring new opportunities for your career.

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

3. Improve your soft skills.

Learn a few soft skills at a decent level and rest of them at a basic level.

You can start with the ones in demand.

Listening, negotiation, persuasion, presentation, public speaking, pitching, reading body language might be a good place to start.

Think about how you can make a difference in your workplace. Pay attention to what successful employees around you do.

If you get familiar with the basics move to storytelling which is making a huge difference in the XXI century.

4. Think critically.

Contest everything you see or listen. Create your own opinions on some topics.

Don’t believe gurus just because they say so.

Have your own mind. Evaluate content that gets into your mind.

It will save you from putting your clients or company into troubles.
It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about getter 1% better each day
By: Jason Safford Exceptional Results Now
Tags: Leadership, Self Improvement, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development

By Jason Safford (Excerpted from Winning with Exceptionalism)

Competition is often misunderstood. Too many people look at whether they are winning or losing and not at whether they are improving. If you focus on how you are improving your performance each time, eventually there will only be a competition with your last performance. That should be your end goal.

When you focus directly on a goal, what happens?

You start worrying about making mistakes. Anxiety becomes your enemy and failure and rejection start to consume your thoughts. You become desperate to win because you are afraid to lose. You start feeling guilty about success!

These kinds of thoughts are incredibly distracting!

Most people fail because of these thoughts overwhelm them and they freeze into inaction. I know firsthand how this can happen. I have failed many times because I was overwhelmed with negative thoughts.

When you focus on the process of achieving your goal, you get to have fun instead. You begin to look forward to each aspect of how your mission will be completed. You get interested in the details and excited about results from every effort made.

The goal becomes a game you try to master each and every time. Learning becomes the focus. How you improve in the process becomes the result and winning becomes a byproduct.

When you adopt this mindset of falling in love with the process, feelings of anxiety, guilt, and fear start to disappear. I lose myself in the work and my self-doubt and self-consciousness become non-existent.

My enthusiasm becomes my driving force. This increases my energy to remain disciplined and focused on getting things done every day. And little by little, my passion for my mission becomes

When success comes — usually far faster and unexpectedly — it becomes a bonus! My real reward has always been the learning and discovering how to get better results from the process.
Unknown day
By: Don Winchell
Tags: Consulting, Old Age, Business Development

OK, so i have not been here on medium for a while but I have been doing the writing, but in other places.

I have been posting:

In my Facebook group

on my website

in two other Facebook groups

on the affiliate sites, I am building

So I am back to medium now. The thing is how do I use the content in different places to make efficient use of that content. So what I will be doing this week is consolidating all this stuff.

So finishing the full emersion training/learning component by the end of December. So from September through December. Maybe my brain is slowing down. Seems like a long time. But then again maybe I have absorbed a lot, maybe more than I currently think.

Interesting bong today. Nothing is new, no one will really come up with something new, but It may be new to you, and may be new to other people.

I heard Buddhism for the first time in the 1970s. By the time I heard it, it was already 2,500 years old. NOTHING was new. Nothing! But it was new to me. Hmmm, the imposter syndrome. something to get over. You may be just one week ahead of someone who doesn’t know what you are presenting. OK, that’s it for now
Use design to prototype your revenue Model and pricing
By: Thabet Mabrouk
Tags: Design Thinking, Business Development, Business Strategy, Design, Business

The revenue model and pricing options need to be designed focusing on the customer experience.

You need to make money to keep sharing your offer, your product or service with the world.

Once you validated your business value proposition, and you are sure that it solves a unique problem by offerings a service or a product, you need to think about how could you make money with what you offer.

Think about how could people pay you to buy your product or service. Make it easy for them thinking about their experience through the payment process for example. Payment is an important touchpoint of customer experience.

How customers will pay you represent your revenue model and how much they will pay you is the price.

Your revenue model and prices needs to be designed, prototyped and then tested with target customers. Keep in mind your customer experience.

To make your revenue model more customer centered flip the questions:

Instead of asking what’s the easiest way for your business to get paid, start by asking what’s the easiest way for our customers to pay?

Prototype different possibilities, get them out and test them with your customers, get insights and decide on the best revenue model and pricing that makes your customer happier, enjoy the payment experience and see more value.

Doing that you can generate more value for your business and serve better your customers.
It’s Real: the London Real Business Accelerator Program.
By: Dennis O'Connor
Tags: Healing, London Real Academy, Business Development

There are a few things that sealed it for me. One was knowing that Brian Rose was going to integrate the knowledge from many of his interviewees. I’m not too sure if you have heard the London Real channel before but Brian has some of the best guests in the world of any podcast. The London Real show is up there with Joe Rogan’s as one of the best in the world.

There were a few considerations in the mix but when Brian interviewed David Icke at the risk of getting de-platformed on YouTube and was brave enough to stand in his truth and not worry about the repercussions of the crazy censorship happening at the moment, it sealed the deal for me.

Now, 8 weeks later, I have had a superb journey. We have a class of like-minded people and some great trainers and it has been incredibly gratifying to see that Brian actually engages with the participants on the course, once a week.

My message around health is generally that we greatly complicate things and by breaking things down to their simplest components we can have an incredible successful health journey. Well, it turns out that all my business plans were hugely over complicated.

Now I have a blueprint which is much simpler. Am I out of my comfort zone? Hell yes. But now I am pointed in a much clearer direction to realize my goals, This blog is not a paid promotion. It is my way of expressing gratitude for the incredible value I have found and completing the course.

Would I recommended it to others? Absolutely.

Thank you Brian and your team. If you want to know anything up my health programs or about Brian’s Business Accelerator Program, feel free to get in touch.
Social Media and Brands: A Love Story?
By: Tk Princewill
Tags: Brand Strategy, Business Development, Branding, Social Media Marketing, Brands

Did you know some social media platforms have more active users than the population of China? For context, China has a population of 1.3 billion people, the most populated country in the world.

Well, by the second quarter of 2020, Facebook already had 2.7 billion active monthly users, that’s twice the population of China, 4 times the population of the US and over 13 times the population of a country like San Marino.

“Social media is not one media channel, it is a virtual society in which all sorts of human activities take place“ — Professor Mike Yao (Illinois GIES College of Business)

According to Statista, Youtube is the second-most used social media platform with 2 billion monthly active users. No wonder we see so many ads on YouTube, signifying an active relationship, and brands have to be present to keep the love going.

Here are some other major platform statistics, Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram have 2 billion and 1.1 billion monthly active users respectively, Tiktok is growing at 689, Snapchat at 433 and Twitter at 353 million monthly active users.

Although social media and brands may have a strong relationship, it definitely isn’t the type of affair you had in mind. Brands work hard in this relationship to leverage the power of social media by introducing creative ways to appease the interests of their customers.

Even if this isn't a romantic relationship, content is still the love language. The most successful brands know that curating valuable content on social media will drive engagements, increase awareness, recognition and ultimately build trust.

To curate the right content, it is important to note that creating detailed buyer personas will help your brand understand the social media behaviour of your ideal customers, and ultimately allow you tailor messages that will resonate with your target audience.

Buyer personas can help you curate the right content and also help set the right voice for your brand. Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customer including demographic and psychographic data.

For your brand to be successful on social media, you have to align all your communications with your brand’s voice, actively use storytelling — everybody loves a good story, use images, videos and blog posts to capture the attention of your audience and personalize your posts by always writing your posts to your buyer persona.
GO-TO-THE-MARKETS
By: Chad Wakefield
Tags: Go To Market, Business Development, Sales, Impact, Business Strategy

Certainly the phrase/concept GO-TO-MARKET is not new. For me it rings most common with products; and in the last many years definitely includes mobile applications as a massive amount of products. This is not a story about exploding the newest “APP”. I don’t do that; I provide professional consulting services and execution of the ideas I consult on. But there is something to be learned for just about any business by looking at others; especially those who are radically different than your own.

I constantly am thinking to myself how do I spread the gospel more? Every now and again, like now, I think out loud, about what professional services firms do (or don’t), to GO-TO-THE- MARKETS. Ah, there is more than one? Hmmm. You will have to decide whether there is just one or hundreds for you.

Markets are the life blood of any economic activity. A niche service does not likely have the value to warrant a Super Bowl ad. But likely there are a few for you to at least consider. So how do you go to them to let them know you exist? That’s a constant thought (or should be if you are going to be around for long).

The answers depend upon what you do, how aggressive you want to be, how much effort you want to exert, and how much return you want. Wait…I can decide those things? Well, you have to. And, you may have to decide how often do you want to re-invent yourself.

So how does a professional services business GO-TO-THE-MARKETS it wants to operate in and announce they exist. And broadcast what the proposition they have to make is? What’s the approach? Does this only apply to a service provider (seller), or could it apply to a service seeker (buyer) who wants to improve the services they buy?

Here’s one set of thoughts:

1. Figure out who you are;

2. Who you would like to hang out with and who may want to hang out with you (you’ll spend more time with them than your family);

3. What you won’t do and will; and

4. Where it’s at to satisfy all that.

Sounds intense!!!! Sounds like an exercise that may require you to put yourself on the coach and go deep! YES! Even if what you do seems simple and you think you already know what you need to do; do it anyway.

I recently learned about a way Charlie Munger thinks about stuff; Inversion. In Christian Busch’s Serendipity Mindset as I recall Munger’s statement was “If you want to help Somalia, first think about what hurts Somalia.” That was a major light bulb (especially for a contrarian thinker like I am).

I Can’t tell you how to be like Charlie Munger. I suspect that Mr. Munger would tell you that if you try to emulate him, you are missing the point. But hopefully my think out load moment was helpful, and in return I get some nuggets back from you.

Chad K. Wakefield, PMP

The Chief Champion of You!!!!!
Your Business Plan: 9 Places To Look For A Great Opening Line!
By: Hassan Mushtaq
Tags: Business Opening, Mindset, Business Development, Business Strategy, Business

Your Business Plan: 9 Places To Look For A Great Opening Line

There it is. That blank screen with the little blinking line. And everything sounds so mundane.

Jakes Bakery will serve the best cakes in the county. (Yawn.)

I researched the industry and found that it is fail-proof. (Yawn.)

We came together to form a really good business. (Yawn.)

Its kind of like, Hey, whats your sign? Everybody knows why everybody is here, but cant I come up with a better opening line?

Even the most prolific writers get blank screen-itis. To help you get back on your pizazzing path, here are some places to look for inspiration for your business plan.

1. Your competitors websites. Seriously. Somebody put a great deal of time and effort into those websites. What do the headlines say? Is there a neat turn of phrase that you can turn again into your business plan concept?

2. Industry ads. Who better to put on your side that Madison Avenue advertising executives? Real pros have been at work here. They have had to distill major ideas into a few lines, a few catchy phrases. Study your industry publications for jewels that you can pick off their…
PapaReddit — scrape, analyze and read Reddit comments
By: Ilya Nevolin
Tags: Automation, Research, Business Development, Social Media, Business Strategy

PapaReddit is an easy and minimalistic Reddit comments scraper, analyzer and reader that runs on any device in the browser. A great research tool and easy to use on a daily basis.

demo: https://nevolin.be/papareddit/

Description

Open the app URL. It will automatically load 30 random comments. Use the input fields to customize the results:

Limit: the max number of results you wish to retrieve, this is not guaranteed and limited to 1000 by Reddit’s API.

Subs: a list of subreddits space separated (“all” is default).

Words: a list of words to match in the title or comment’s body, these are space separated.

https://github.com/healzer/PapaReddit

Background

This tool was designed to quickly analyze and skim over comments made on Reddit, which can be useful for research, marketing and sales.

As entrepreneurs and developers we often have that craving to find some interesting piece of information, that hopefully leads towards a new product, business, service, feature, improvement, … Instead of going to Facebook/Instagram/YouTube to satisfy that urge with cheap and useless information, we should focus on being user centered: read and study your target audience, what they are saying, thinking and wanting.

Using Reddit’s website directly can also be slow and contains a lot of noise (colors, pictures, ads, etc.). This solution tries to minimize the noise to a minimum.

This solution was built using JavaScript/jQuery with HTML/CSS. You can easily extend it with new features (pattern matching, NLP, ML, etc.).

You can also use parts of the code in NodeJS if you wish to centralize the API calls and/or data analysis.

This is pretty much a static website with some JavaScript, it can be hosted on a free Digitalocean App plan.

You could further extend this with NLP and/or sentiment analysis. Or use the comments to train neural networks for pattern matching, text generation or something crazy.
Top Tips for Attending Networking Events and Making connections
Tags: Business Networking Tips, Business Development

Keep your business cards with you so that they are easy to reach and in good shape. The same is with your smartphone — if the other party has a compatible smartphone, you can instantly exchange contact details through apps such as AirDrop for iOS.

When you give a person your card, personalize it by hand with a note or additional contact information. This will make the recipient believe like they are getting something special.

When you receive a business card from someone else, please take a moment to write a note short on it, such as where you met. When you are still talking to a person, it will help express your sense of personal connection.

They use the other person’s first name two or three times during a networking function discussion. People still want to hear their name, which will help you remember it when the conversation is over.

Instead of telling a new contact all about yourself, the best business networking tip is to spend your time asking them questions. It is incredible how much you are going to learn.

When you first meet someone, use the back of their business card to note what you have learned from the conversation and the date and location you met them. Alternatively, input the details on your mobile device; the Mobile Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app is suitable for this reason. Recording the details will give you something to talk to them about the next time you see it.

Link to the person you are talking to by tilting your head while you listen to them. It is an effective body language strategy that communicates that you pay attention to what they say.

When anyone speaks to you, make sure to look directly at them. Giving a person full attention to your eyes will allow them to share more.

Know, when you give someone eye contact, it is not a “stare-down” contest. Give the person three to five seconds of eye contact and then look away momentarily before returning the eyes to them again.

The best place for networking is the high-traffic area, such as the main entrance, the bar, or near the food.

Never approach someone if they are going to the toilet or have a phone in their hand. Wait until they get back to the networking area or get their phone out.

After the person has shared something with you, ask them another question about what they have just said. This shows that you pay attention and care about what they are telling you.

For More: Business Networking Tips and Tricks To Excell and Grow In 2021
Juicy SEO tools you will love
By: Shuaibu Michael
Tags: SEO, Internet Marketing, Best Seo Company, Business Development, Success

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It’s got a seamless interface, powerful features, and beautiful design, which makes it a great choice, especially for beginner bloggers.

you also get access to an amazing team of people with real knowledge of SEO.

At $29/month you really can’t go wrong with a Mangools subscription. Great value!

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A simple yet profound truth.
By: Rica Keenum
Tags: Writing Tips, Business Development, Freelancing, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy

Wherever you are in your journey, you know things others don’t. As best-selling author Derek Sivers once said, “What’s obvious to you is amazing to others.” You can get a lot of clients and teach them what you know, if you know how to sell your services.
Brock Jon Purviance-Businessman | Financer
Tags: Business Development, Marketing, Financer, Best Financial Market, Marketing Business

Brock Jon Purviance is a big businessman, as well as a financier and marketer, They have complete knowledge of the business world, they have very good technology to grow business, if you also want to make your business successful, then you visit their website.
Preparing for a Post-COVID Market
By: Daniel Ramsey
Tags: Business Development, Covid 19, Virtual Assistant, Economy, Organizational Change

In today’s polarized society, how are you going to honor the needs of your clients, customers, employees, and partners?

Original Story: Link

Reflect on these important questions:

Predictably, there will be two crowds: 1) those preferring in-person interaction 2) those preferring social distancing. How will you cater to both types of clientele? Your employees & talent will also have their own preferences on how to continue with work. Will you honor these preferences and adapt to the operation, or risk losing your talents? What is your plan for the next catastrophe, government shutdown? Not your next reaction to the news, but your next REAL plan.

You can upgrade your business operations to be disaster-proof. Find out how in this article.
What Customers Really Want
Tags: Innovation, Business Development, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Behavior

Posted by Eric Lomax

Growing up, mom called me by the wrong name so much I would respond to just about anything. “Buddy, ah Lloyd ah, ah Carla!” Carla? Once, mom called me by my sister’s name. Seriously mom?

This was not a high point for a 12-year old with a voice that could sing soprano at the Metropolitan Opera and who had less facial hair than a bowling ball. As mom recited names like she was reading contacts from her phone, I sat quietly. I knew she wanted me to perform some dirty chore but I was a smart-ass.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t smart enough; this tactic had been unsuccessfully tried before. Mom marched around the house becoming angrier with every step until finding me engrossed in the TV. Before she could say another word, I looked up and stated, “You didn’t call me!” Of the millions of things I could have said at that moment, this statement was one of the worst. She put on her mom-face, seared holes into me with her mom-eyes, and bellowed, “You knew what I meant!”

“You knew what I meant.” As entrepreneurs, we need to search beyond what’s being requested and solve what is needed. We get so engrossed in addressing customer requests that we don’t fully understand their problems.

Innovation isn’t found in requests; it hides within needs.

No one asked for touchscreen smartphones with thousands of apps. They wanted bigger Blackberry’s. No one asked to binge-watch seasons of TV shows in one sitting. They wanted bigger DVRs. No one asked for the Amazon Echo to control home appliances. They wanted smoke detectors that didn’t chirp at 4:00 AM when the battery died.

Your customers will never know your business or its possibilities as well as you. They won’t know what to request. By better understanding their needs you can solve the problems they don’t realize that they have. You must address their needs, not just their whims. Don’t just listen to customers’ requests. Know what they mean!
Tgree Tips to Overcome the XY Problem
Tags: Business Development, Software Engineering, Soft Skills, Software Development, Business

Tgree Tips to Overcome the XY Problem

You’ve had problems with files. Probably due to their file extensions. Let’s say you wanted the last three characters to determine the file type. You ask some people questions about it.

You search for code to find the last three characters. Your coworkers probably have some suggestions, so you ask them as well.

You’re stuck on your solution, without looking back at the problem.

You’ve got into the XY problem. Let’s go into the details of it.
3 Tips to Overcome the XY Problem
By: Živković Miloš
Tags: Business Development, Software Engineering, Soft Skills, Software Development, Business

3 Tips to Overcome the XY Problem

Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash

You’ve had problems with files. Probably due to their file extensions. Let’s say you wanted the last three characters to determine the file type. You ask some people questions about it.

You search for code to find the last three characters. Your coworkers probably have some suggestions, so you ask them as well.

You’re stuck on your solution, without looking back at the problem.

You’ve got into the XY problem. Let’s go into the details of it.
Want to build a business? Start thinking in systems.
By: Christiaan Van Eijk
Tags: Growth, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Business

How I became an ‘entrepreneur’

Hi 👋, nice to meet you! My name is Christiaan. And I’m a 23 years old entrepreneur. I grew up in a very driven household. Both my parents tended to work 60/80-hour work weeks. And my dad, like his dad before him, always had a business he was running.

And before I knew it, I spent my entire childhood working alongside him.

My typical day didn’t look like most others my age.

08:00–15:00 School

15:30–18:00 Relaxing / Homework / Whatever

18:00–20:00 Discussing and coming up with strategies

20:00–00:00 Developing whatever I worked on (website/marketing/etc)

00:00–03:00 Brainstorming new ideas / Getting more work done

07:00 Waking up, with a lot of effort, to go to school

As you might’ve guessed, my family didn’t sleep a lot.

My own business

Because of the skillset and experiences I gained building and growing my dads company I grew the desire to build a business of my own.

So I did. Or at least I thought…

What does it even mean to build a business?

The past couple of years I did a LOT of projects. So does that mean I’m building a business? I did a bit of thinking and came to the following conclusion: No.
Latest Camera 2020
Tags: Online Trading, Sony Camera, Owner Financing, Business Development, Online Business

Canon EOS M200

According to Canon, the EOS M200 is ideal for those who want to take better pictures than current camera phones can. The camera shows phones a long nose, especially when it comes to dark and dark subjects, as the image sensor of this camera is much larger than that of smartphones.

Plus, the camera’s autofocus is really fast and accurate because it uses Canon’s Dual Pixel Cmos autofocus. Both face and eye detection and other types of focus are available.

Although the camera was only introduced last September, you can already save just over a hundred, as the camera cost 629 euros as a new one, and now it sells for just over 500 euros.

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Does Twitter Really Work For Businesses
Tags: Twitter For Business, Twitter Marketing, Online Marketing, Business Development

With more than 200 plus million active users, Twitter is an excellent platform for businesses to reach & get connected with the new audience.

Does Twitter really work for Small Businesses?

With more than 200 plus million active users, Twitter is an excellent platform for businesses to reach & get connected with the new audience. Small businesses have realized the power of this platform. It is an excellent platform for small business to communicate with their customers effectively.

Small businesses have been using Twitter to grow their business. Another reason that encourages small businesses to promote their product or service on Twitter is that it is cost effective. Therefore, small businesses should definitely explore twitter to promote their products.

This is how you can get most out of Twitter for your business

Goals of Twitter marketing?

Decide what are the goals that you want to achieve from promoting your business on Twitter.

-Generating leads & sales

-Increasing Brand Awareness

-Building better Customer Support channel

-Creating a positive opinion

-Building community

It is immensely essential to set your goals to decide how and why to use Twitter for your business.

How can Twitter help small businesses?

Connect to Customers

Twitter is growing rapidly. Every day, the size of the Twitter audience is growing. It provides an excellent opportunity for small businesses to look for potential customers. Not just, it offers them the chance to find new customers but also connect with the existing customers and interact with them.

Twitter Increase Brand Awareness

Being a small business owner, it becomes essential for you to build brand awareness. Twitter allows you to connect with new users with its promotional ads. You can select demographic and run ads to reach out to the new audience.

Build a Customer Support Channel

You can use Twitter to monitor what people are talking about your brand online and in case if you come across negative reactions or comments from customers, you can resolve it quickly by responding to them or getting in touch with them directly.

Why use Twitter for marketing your business?
How to Tweak Your Mind into Coming Up With Innovative Ideas
By: Kiran Banakar
Tags: Ideation, Creativity, Business Development, Thinking, Productivity Tools

Leonardo Da Vinci, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Arianna Huffington — there are a handful of people who just seem to constantly come up with world-changing ideas, which set new trends and standards and ultimately shape the way we live. Are they just a different species of humans (I call them: Homo Genius)? Or is there a method which we can adopt to translate our raw brainpower to innovative and elegant ideas? It turns out: “Yes”, and “Yes” — precisely because Homo Genius evolves from Homo Sapiens by applying a rigorous way of thinking. Here is my personal take on shaping my thought process.

You Don’t Have to be Skilled to See the Problem

Every innovative idea solves a pressing problem in an elegant way. Let that sink in first, and then let us look at what this sentence’s implications are.

First, innovation evokes an image of something from outer space: never seen before, completely unknown and potentially dangerous. However, the most accurate description is simply: surprisingly unexpected. This surprise happens when something well-known in a completely unrelated context is tweaked and translated to serve the current use case.

Second, elegance is the child of human intuition marrying ease of use. Through our experience we have gathered enough data to make assumptions about how things around us work. When those things then confirm these assumptions, our intuition is reinforced. However, when our assumptions didn’t expect something extraordinarily easy to use, our intuition will be imprinted with a new standard: the bar has been raised. Every new standard creates a new “first impression”, and every such “first” is a positive memory. Our brains just happen to label this experience as: elegance.

Finally, and most importantly, you don’t have to be skilled to see the problem. This obvious point usually sweeps away all thought barriers in the minds of those who realise this simple truth. A problem is everything that elicits a frustrated sigh from you. “I forgot my password for the umpteenth time” — that’s a problem. “I don’t know which documents I need for my situation and how I can get them” — this is another well-known problem. “I don’t know where to invest my spare money” — even though this problem is pressing, I assume everybody would be grateful to have it in the first place.

However, you don’t need to be a programmer, administrative employee or investment professional to see these problems. If at all, applying your virgin mind to solve these problems proves to be an advantage. The key here is to differentiate between the solution and its implementation by using the art of Abstraction.
How To Set Up A Business Selling Your Own Shopping
By: Hassan Mushtaq
Tags: Business Set Up, Shopping, Selling Art, Business Development, Business

How To Set Up A Business Selling Your Own Shopping Cart Solutions

As we speak, an endless number of small, medium & large companies in all types of niches are planning to build their web presence. It doesn’t matter what they sell — some may be import/export companies, others might sell DVDs and others still may deal solely in digital products. Some will have turnovers that barely touch $100,000, while some will be yielding millions per year.

What do all these companies want and need that you can give them — right now?

The majority of them will seek out some type of shopping cart software or service. You can bet, the first sub-point in the MD’s notepad for web development would be something along the lines of “Find best way of accepting web orders”. And that’s where you come in.

You see, the potential reward of offering a cart solution to these new web businesses are very good indeed — in the U.S. alone, there are almost 230,000 monthly searches for the term “Shopping Cart” (top 3 engines only) which should provide you with some indication of the market size. While there are a few services and software that already exist for this, they tend to be pricey — the business either has to fork out monthly fees (for example Volusion that charges upto $197 for their monthly cart service), or SumEffects which at $349 is a one time fee, but still pretty steep.

But, the fact is, businesses will pay these fees with their eyes shut and today you can own the rights to a powerful shopping cart solution that you can offer them.

Here are the features you will need to ensure that your software offers your clients:

– Ease of use & set-up.

– Search engine friendly design.

– Unlimited number of potential products. With many carts, higher prices are charged the more products you offer. The majority of the “free” ones only let you offer five or ten items which is insufficient for the majority of businesses.

– In built newsletter management.

– Product database that can be searched.

– Compatible with various payment gateways (including Paypal).

– Powerful sales analysis & tracking.

Ordinarily, this type of software can cost upwards of ten thousand dollars to develop yourself. But if you don’t have this much then don’t worry, you can actually pick up the resell rights to powerful shopping cart software for a fraction of that cost (as little as fifty dollars if you know where to look). Resell rights allow you to repackage the software and offer it to your own clients and keep 100% of the sale proceeds.

We’re just seeing the tip of the boom for these types of software. Ultimately, every business will have to come online and accept credit card payments — what an opportunity for those that offer a powerful shopping cart solution service!
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The START!
By: Scott Leonard
Tags: Education, Business Development, Mmo, Entrepreneurship, Online Business

Hi, I’m Scott Leonard and this is the start of my journey for starting an online business.

I’m going to apologize right now for many things, laughs, but mostly because this is my first blog and I don’t consider myself the best writer so I’m hoping those that follow are able to focus on the content and messages vs how something is written.

So today, it’s Tuesday, December 15th here in Connecticut. Covid is rearing it’s ugly head again and the virus has shaken my year to the core. (Like it’s done for so many other people)

I’ve been blessed that I’ve kept my main job, which I love, however it has taken away the ability for me to work my part time jobs as they were all in the catering business (either Bartending or serving).

Side note: Being the ever optimist, I will probably focus on the good in my life, however, I don’t want to minimize the challenges we have all faced this year. I just choose to focus on the opportunities as I believe in “you get what you give and what you focus on improves”.

Both of these imply that if you focus on the good, are grateful for what you have, then that will grow in your life, and if you give freely to others, you will get the same in return. Being a person of Strong Christian faith, I try to follow both as much as I can.

But I digress, and as I am not able to have a physical part-time job, due to Covid, I have started an online company that I’m trying to get off the ground.

This blog is probably more therapy for me (smiles) as I’m going to write about my successes, struggles, and outright failures daily if my life permits.

I do this, yes for my therapy, but also in hopes that successes can help someone else struggling in the same area, and perhaps they can learn from my own failures to avoid them and relate to my struggles.

Looking over this blog I feel this is a good start and I’ll begin a second one specifically talking about my journey so far (to catch everyone up) and then start a daily “where’s where I’m at” blog.

Thank you for reading. I hope others will find this inspiring and a source of help in their own day to day struggles of setting up an online business.

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Closing the gap in venture capital was a nonfactor for a very long time in the industry of VC for several minority groups. It is no secret that minority women businesses are underfunded and for this reason, it is always a privilege to highlight those that are changing this narrative.

The man who created a massive forum for entrepreneurs to reach the breakthrough that they needed in order for their business to flourish, Is none other than Jim Stallings he is changing lives for the better every single day.

He is globally recognized for his extensive experience in transforming businesses to reach new heights and for his business leading skills.

Closing the gap in venture capital was a nonfactor for a very long time in the industry of VC for several minority groups. It is no secret that minority women businesses are underfunded and for this reason, it is always a privilege to highlight those that are changing this narrative.

The man who created a massive forum for entrepreneurs to reach the breakthrough that they needed in order for their business to flourish, Is none other than Jim Stallings he is changing lives for the better every single day. He is globally recognized for his extensive experience in transforming businesses to reach new heights and for his business leading skills.

Jim is the founder and CEO of PS27 Ventures, which is a firm whose motto is ‘empowering entrepreneurs to scale their breakthrough ideas’.

PS27 Diverse Culture

What the firm mainly does is invest in early-stage companies and startups that are showing staggering impacts on high-growth markets. The team of professionals working for the firm helps startup businesses grow and become aware of their true ability and potential.

PS27 Ventures mainly aims to invest in e-commerce, technology, sustainability companies, SaaS, healthtech, and fintech.

Jim has a Bachelor of Science Degree and a diverse career from the US Naval Academy and an astoundingly rich career background. He has worked for companies such as ROLM, IBM, and GE in the past.

While talking to Subject Thread Podcast Jim shared that he is a firm believer in innovation, the importance of diversity, technology, the importance of minority and female-led forums, and what he looks at when investing in a company.

Along with running PS27 Ventures, Jim is a director for many renowned company boards. He is also the co-founder of Smart Box, which is one of the most popular healthy snack vending companies across Florida.

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By: Christine Edwards
Tags: Business Development, Ego, Funding, Government, Business Strategy

This is what people don’t want to hear about government contracts. You’re not going to wow the government with your business idea. I’m sorry. Government contracts are about a mutually beneficial relationship and strategic partnership. The audience and scope are built in. All you have to do is execute. Your level of expertise and quality of service is what shines.

Your ego is removed from the equation. You have to stand out on their terms. It’s not about your genius ideas or even about the following you’ve gained from picking low hanging fruit over the years. There are places that you get to flex and show your true leadership skills. For example, in the proposal and in the deliverables, you can show off your techniques, methodology and past project performance, but the places where you and your business lack are going to be amplified and exposed in these relationships. I think this is one of the main reasons that people avoid government contracting, to be honest.

At the core of this phenomenon is that people are ego-driven when working with government clients is truly rooted in service. You have to be willing to be humble and execute the scope of work as written.
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Many email marketers frequently fail to realize that their subscriber’s email application preview pane is the first opportunity their content has to attract the attention they require. And unfortunately, those that don’t allow for a snapshot preview in their content design fall victim to lower than expected open rates as their subscribers are less likely to open the message in full.

Here are four simple steps you can to take to ensure your next email message preview pane design gets all the attention it should:

First, be aware that prior to Outlook 2003, the preview your subscriber sees runs horizontally along the foot of their screen. In Outlook 2003, this view is a vertical slice showing the left-hand side of your content.

As a tip take a blank sheet of paper and then reveal the top third of your next message and then the left third. Does what you see in both instances seem interesting enough to entice your subscribers to click on?

Second, by allowing for the thinnest of newsletter mastheads, you should cram into these viewable snippets as much content as you can. Plus, if this content tells your subscriber exactly what your message contains, then the chances of them opening it increase even further.

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Third, don’t have too many images cluttering the preview space. By default, my version of Outlook 2003 suppresses all images sent to me in HTML messages. All I see is a sea of red crosses, which tells me nothing about the message. (I tend to leave these messages until later, which CAN become NEVER! Your subscribers may well do the same.)

And finally, the smart newsletter designers use images sparingly in this top part. Even better, they build their masthead using not images, but HTML text and color to effectively get across their message. As a consumer, I’m far more tempted to break my train of thought and dig down deeper into that juicy piece of content I can see.

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Thus, by treating the preview pane of your newsletter as a quick-peek mini-summary for your subscribers, you are on the right track to grab a new client!

It’s simple really–the quicker your readers are intrigued by the very first lines of your email, the more they will read them.