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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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Chicken Franchise Popeyes To Launch UK Wedding Catering Service
They famously served up their Louisiana fried chicken at Beyonce and Jay Z's wedding back in 2008. And now British couples can opt for the same celebrity-endorsed feast at their own wedding reception, after the fried chicken franchise brand Popeyes announced that they are launching a new wedding catering service…
11 Innovative Ways Businesses Can Leverage Instagram Live To Connect With Their Audiences
Many brands today are well aware of just how critical Instagram is to a business’s marketing strategy. In addition to being an ideal platform for showcasing products and services visually, its Instagram Live feature allows businesses to communicate with current and potential customers in an approachable way through livestreaming. With…
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of other users. When they scrolled through their newsfeeds, Facebook and Instagram showed them the newest posts as determined by the clock, not those judged…
2 Reasons To Replace Legacy Admissions With The Entrepreneurially Gifted Like Ken Langone
Legacy admissions, a controversial practice exercised by some of the nation's leading universities, grants preferential treatment to the children of alumni and donors, leading to the perception that it benefits the wealthy and influential. The article from The New York Times sheds light on the ongoing debate surrounding legacy admissions.…
Wow! 3 Ways To Make Your Brand Shine With WOW-Worthy Content
This article is the third in a three-part series on creating unique marketing content by expressing yourself with creativity and color. The first piece talked about three techniques for infusing your marketing content with subtle humor. The second piece covered three ways to say goodbye to blah content by using…
7 Ways To Combat Brand Hijacking
Brand hijacking isn’t new. The $1.9 trillion bootleg luxury goods industry to corner shops in Turkey with suspiciously close names to long-standing U.K. high street stores tells you that. Today, with the proliferation of social media and internet-based businesses, however, brand hijacking is a bigger risk to small businesses than…
A Fundraising Coach’s Step-By-Step Guide To Meeting With Investors
By Nathan Beckord A startup founder wears many hats: leader, ambassador, visionary—and, of course, fundraiser. But Robbie Crabtree’s company, Founder Fundraising, coaches founders as they don one more: “chief storytelling officer.” Robbie, a serial entrepreneur and former litigator, sees the fundraising process as akin to a courtroom trial. A prosecutor’s…
Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Meta set out to conduct a series of ambitious studies on the effects its platforms—Facebook and Instagram—have on the political beliefs of US-based users. Independent researchers from several universities were given unprecedented access to Meta’s data, and the power to change the…
Increase Productivity And Engagement With Staff-Led Planning Meetings
Ghaleb El Masri is a Managing Director and Partner at ADAPTOVATE. One of the CEO’s most important tasks is effective resource allocation: marshaling the limited resources of an organization toward the highest-value outcomes. Given the current economic outlook, doing more with less is a topic that is top of mind…
Six Reasons To Still Consider Brick-And-Mortar Stores
Former family therapist providing retail therapy as owner of Austin boutiques estilo, estilo Men & estilo Kids. In a time where hundreds of millions of people shop online, and e-commerce sales are in the trillions, many people don’t see the need to open a brick-and-mortar store anymore. But I disagree.…
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In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
I Asked AI to Create a Plan for a Fake Company — The Results Blew Me Away, But Not in the Way You Might Think
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Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…