Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
7 Growth Hacking Strategies for a Successful Real Estate Business
In today’s tech-driven world, a lot of businesses in the real estate industry are taking advantage of the enormous benefits of growth hacking—a concept used to explain tech innovation for more powerful marketing. Small businesses use some growth hacking strategies to find the most effective method for enhancing lead generation and conversion. In this write-up,…
Read MoreThe Booming Economy, Driven By Tech
For too long, a creative career was far away from what career success should look like. It was too often relegated to a childhood dream, with many artists taking distance from their craft as time went by. Creative work didn’t represent a realistic career choice, which was as much driven by social expectations as it…
Read MoreHow the Trading Industry Can Help Small Businesses Adapt to a Mobile World
Never before has the use of mobile devices been as high as it is today and for every day that passes, more and more people go completely “mobile.” In turn, this has created a greater need for small business owners to accommodate this new market space. Unfortunately, it has proven to be difficult for many,…
Read MoreOffice Automation: Is Your Business Keeping Up?
Automation is often considered as the preserve of heavily mechanized, just-in-time production verticals such as automotive, or similar ‘Industry’ with a capital ‘I.’ But a growing host of innovative products and services is changing that rapidly. From safety mechanisms to protect workers, through to cost-saving efficiency devices, the age of interconnected sensors and integrated management…
Read More6 Reasons You Need to Become a Data Expert for Business Success
Researchers estimate that people absorb five-times the amount of information as our ancestors who lived 25 years ago, and people process as much information today as those in the 15th century absorbed during their entire lifetime. These days, big data experts help enterprises discover innovative solutions that lead to prosperity in a competitive marketplace. By…
Read More3 Ways to Shift Mindsets for Implementation of BIM
Fear of failure, fear of change, and fear of criticism are all hardwired into the human brain as deeply as the primal urge for self-preservation. However, when humans embrace change, with its demands for flexibility and transparency, the species is capable of achieving great things. Confronting those fears is familiar ground for Eddy Slim. Trained…
Read More9 Innovation Practices for Long-Term Business Health
A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change. Thus without thinking, every company becomes…
Read More5 Tips to Disrupt Your Customer Service and Beat the Competition
We’re currently in the middle of a transformation, where digital technologies are disrupting the way we conduct our business. Customers are still at the center of every organization, however, and when customers change, your organization should change to adapt to their needs. You’re probably wondering how you can adapt your business to this disruption and…
Read MoreIs Marketing Dead?
I just finished a fascinating book, Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Cost into Profit, by Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose. Joe and Robert are the creators of the mega-conference Content Marketing World, and Joe has written other books like Content Inc, Epic Content Marketing, and Managing Content Marketing. Catching a theme? The…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Building a 20th Century Company in the 21st Century Economy
If you want to start an extremely profitable company today, it needs to be built around patents, trademarks, or customer loyalty to particular lifestyle. This is one of the points Martin Lowy makes in his excellent Seeking Alpha piece, The 2-Track Economy: Employers Versus Moat Builders. The “moat” he mentions in the title of the article…
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