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Fast Company
Having a robust professional network can be a game changer when thinking about your career journey. The people in your network can help make future connections, refer you for a job, provide advice and so much more. But building a thoughtful – and more importantly, actionable–professional network, can seem daunting. Who should you connect with and why?
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Inc.
Summer is a season of lazy pool days. It's no surprise businesses adhere to "summer hours" or encourage employees to take time off when school's out. It's hard to stay focused, and the heat wears you down.
But summer as an entrepreneur isn't the same. It's easy to let a summer slump or a packed schedule derail your best-laid plans. Instead, you need to take advantage of summer's slower months to fuel growth.
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By Anne Rose
 It would be profitable to know in advance who is going to be a "good" and "loyal" customer — one who patronizes your services frequently, spends money on your products or services, and is always pleasant and courteous to deal with. You could provide that customer extra services, knowing that your investment would reap benefits in ensuring his even longer-term patronage. Oh, to know in advance. But here’s the problem in prejudging the long-term value of a customer: you could be dead wrong in your assumptions.
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Inc.
Stan Meytin, an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member in New York, is founder and CEO of True Film Production, a video production company that connects people to brands through meaningful storytelling. Inc. asked Stan about the benefits of video brand strategy in content marketing.
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Harvard Business Review
Developing an understanding of your customer to build a successful product or business model is not just a data crunching game. Quantitative market research and analytics are important and useful, of course. But when it comes to identifying breakthrough ideas, individual customer experiences can be uniquely powerful.
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Forbes
For marketers, social media offers platform variety, audiences of billions and ease of use. Studies have shown that 40% of digital consumers use social media to research brands or products and that both Millennials and Generation-Z consider social media the most relevant ad channel. With staggering statistics like these, it’s no wonder many businesses have gone all-in on creating robust social media marketing campaigns.
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Forbes
From robot waiters to AI dishwashers, the food and beverage industry continues to turn to innovative technology. In a recent interview, Nick Yates, CEO of Generation NEXT Franchise Brands and Reis & Irvy's spokesperson, shared how his company is changing frozen yogurt service through robotic vending machines.
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University of Nottingham via CNN
Drinking coffee could activate the body's fat-fighting defenses, a discovery that could have potential implications in the battle against obesity and diabetes.
In a recently study published, researchers at the University of Nottingham said that coffee may help stimulate our brown fat reserves, also known as brown adipose tissue, which play a key role in how quickly we can burn calories.
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Entrepreneur
Matt Cohen thanks his French background for pursuing what others may have found to be a foolish business: frozen food for kids.
This was in 2007, about a decade before the recent surge in interest and sales in the category, when Cohen's two children were young. Built off the success of a now-closed specialty kids' food store Cohen co-founded in New York City — "like a mini Whole Foods focused on kids," he said.
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Fast Company
When commuters get off the subway at Fulton Street Station in downtown Manhattan and want to grab some food, there’s a new option near the standard offerings from Dunkin’ and Wetzel’s Pretzels: A vending machine that sells fresh salads in reusable glass jars. Three of the vending machines, made by a startup called Fresh Bowl, are launching in the city today.
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Daily Coffee News
Coffee leaders from Brazil and Colombia, the world’s two largest producers of arabica coffee, met in advance of next month’s World Coffee Producers Forum in Brazil to discuss solutions to the ongoing price crisis.
Held at the headquarters of Brazil’s agriculture ministry in Brasilia, the meeting comes nearly 10 months after leading representatives of both countries’ coffee sectors issued a joint statement taking the coffee industry to task for not responding to low prices.
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Mobile Payments Today
The payments landscape looks far different than it did even five years ago, and it will likely undergo even more rapid changes in the next five. We are moving further into the digital age where a large portion of consumers include Gen Z, or those born after 1996. This group will make up 40% of all U.S. consumers by 2020 and shops far differently than previous demographics.
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Harvard Business Review
Many corporations aspire to find innovative solutions to society’s problems. Motivated by a growing sense of social responsibility and profit potential, these companies view social and ecological problems as opportunities to develop new products, services and markets. The problem is that most corporations fail to achieve innovations that have both business and societal payoffs.
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