When All Seems Lost What Do You Do? Keep Positive Says This Founder.

Austin Rolling's energy and can do attitude explode through the phone. Today he's the co-founder of Outfield, a sales team management app which help companies discover valuable insights about their market, track and verify team activity, and communicate across all their devices. Outfield is Austin's fourth startup. His first three start ups failed. Austin...

Ramon Trains His First Entry Level Team Member. 5 Key Take Aways

For just about all the companies I've started I've hired and worked with team members who came with years of expertise in what I needed. Web developers, accountants, bloggers, video editors and etc. However, recently, I've hired my first production assistant, an entry level position. The person I hired had to be smart, willing...

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Gender Discrimination Causes Women To Start their Own Business

This is a new angle for sure. Who would have thought that one of the results of increases in gender discrimination over the years and more so increase in its awareness, causes more and more women to start their own businesses. FreshBooks today announced results from its second annual Women in the Independent Workforce Report, the only...

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Beyond Marketing. Create Experiences Customers Remember

Photo courtesy of : Jakub Mosur Photography Every business must have a marketing strategy in order to get customers and build a brand. However, creating experiences customers remember goes beyond marketing. At Dreamforce, Salesforce’s big, annual event for customers, partners, and media, Ramon Ray, founder of Smart Hustle, attended an information-packed session about experiential marketing. Panelists included...

Mailchimp Exec Shares Her 5 Best Secrets for Marketing Success

Mailchimp is one of the leading brands enabling businesses to get more customers and keep the ones they have. Mailchimp is best known as an email marketing company, but it now does so much more, including websites, marketing automation, CRM, advertising and more. Darcy Kurtz, VP of Product Marketing at Mailchimp shared with Ramon Ray...

8 Power Tips To Increase Holiday Sales. Insights from Yahoo’s eCommerce Ninja.

Selling online is not easy, it's hard work. However, thousands of businesses, every day are finding success in selling online. One of the leaders in helping businesses sell online is Yahoo Small Business and I just had a powerful discussion with Maria Melo, of Yahoo Small Business about how to increase holiday sales, this...

Can Business Insurance Be Simple? New Service by THREE Thinks So.

Insurance, business or personal is messy. It comes with lots of legalese, lots of paper and it's a pain to wade through and understand. A relatively new company, THREE is out to reimagine business insurance for small businesses, THREE makes the process easy and simple. You answer about 20 questions and in a few...