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Small Business Trends
It takes a dedicated amount of time and energy to build good, strong, lasting business relationships today. They are such an integral and necessary part of success, but people don’t seem to want to put in the work.
Alert: Lasting business relationships just don’t happen and develop without the dedicated, consistent work.
Our business network should be a qualified, selective group of people we count on, tap into and rely on for support, direction and insight.
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Harvard Business Review
Consumers are reluctant to trust online brand messaging: up to 25.2% of U.S. Internet users blocked ads on their devices in 2018. Instead, they turn to social media influencers: individuals who distinguish themselves through their personal style and their ability to attract a large audience. What influencers wear, where they travel, and who they listen to intrigue and inspire their followers.
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Little Debbie® Vending has introduced a new Double Decker Fudge Round to the vending trade. This fresh, delicious 3.9 oz. cookie is made with fudge creme sandwiched between three soft, fudge cookies, and topped with a wavy fudge stripe. Programs are available.
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Inc.
If you want to be a great leader, you absolutely have to develop a digital mindset. It's the only way you can help your business leverage data and information technologies in the pursuit of growth and profitability.
Why, you ask?
Digital technology and media are omnipresent in business nowadays. We use it to perform tasks, communicate, collaborate, solve problems, share content and build knowledge. It's the backbone of effective, efficient and flexible execution.
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Entrepreneur
Achieving customer satisfaction has always been the priority of every serious business. This is a straightforward truth. However, the means to achieving customer satisfaction has always been anything but straightforward. The needs of the customer are consistently changing, and businesses have to change with it or risk the very glaring possibility of losing even the most loyal customers to the competition.
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Fast Company
One of the best ways for women to get ahead professionally is to create community and lift each other up, rather than competitively tear each other down.
That was the message at the Wide Awake conference for female founders in New York earlier this month, where panels and workshops led by successful women founders advised women looking to get ahead with their own careers and companies.
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For over 20 years, SMART has been a premium service management system for all types of service companies. Additionally, we have developed industry-leading components, highly specialized for Amusement, Gaming, and ATM Operators.
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Entrepreneur
Lisa Curtis started her business, Kuli Kuli, on the basis of the benefits of the moringa plant, which is grown in parts of Asia and Africa. The plant also became her key selling point. But then she realized, after a friend's suggestion, that her story should lead the way.
"I didn't want it to be about me. I didn't think it was relevant for it to be about my story," she said.
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ScienceDaily
Just looking at something that reminds us of coffee can cause our minds to become more alert and attentive, according to a new University of Toronto study.
"Coffee is one of the most popular beverages and a lot is known about its physical effects," said Sam Maglio, an associate professor in the department of management at U of T Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management.
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Black Forest Gummy Bears are made with fruit juice* and colors from real sources. They're also fat free and come in a variety of great fruity flavors. Each one is as delicious as the next. No wonder they're a fan favorite!
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Forbes
U.K.-based Frugalpac has a solution for a global bad habit: tossing out coffee cups. It’s estimated that Starbucks uses 7 billion cups every year. And that’s just one brand. Aware of this issue, last year the global brand partnered with McDonald's to fund an innovation challenge and see if creative thinkers from around the world could come up with an answer.
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Entrepreneur
Blockchain has the power to accelerate the digital transformation world is currently undergoing. The Indian government has been promoting technology inclusion to bring innovation into different fields. In another step to make the system efficient, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry launched a blockchain-based online marketplace for coffee.
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Forbes
During an average day at Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun shopping district, the store with the longest queue isn’t that of designer handbags favored by affluent Chinese millennials. In fact, it's that of HEYTEA, a budding tea chain where consumers line up for a cup of naigai cha, the cheese-capped tea that 27-year-old founder Neo Nie pioneered in China. The average waiting time can be anywhere from 30 minutes to over an hour, but this hasn’t dented the enthusiasm of shoppers like Adam Yang.
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USA Today
“Don’t hate, hydrate,” screamed the ad on the poster.
Now, it may seem crazy, or craven, to use a social message to sell skin cream, but there’s an important lesson for you, small business owner, behind this marketing ploy. Today’s millennials expect companies — including small businesses — to have a social, as well as a business mission. Whether you want millennials as customers or employees, you better think about how your business affects the world.
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