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Ways to Instantly Improve Your Sales Prospecting Results

Ways to Instantly Improve Your Sales Prospecting Results Every business needs to keep their lead pipeline open to generate continual revenue. Sales prospecting is one way of doing this. In its simplest form, it’s finding new customers in places where you haven’t looked before. Like a gold miner prospect for gold in a new claim, […]

6 Tips to Make Your Site Load Astonishingly Fast on Mobile

6 Tips to Make Your Site Load Astonishingly Fast on Mobile Are you struggling with a high bounce rate? You’re not alone. High bounce rates have proven to be the Achilles Heel of many online marketers. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about it. A number of things can cause bounce rates to […]

Elon Musk Stranded?

1. Elon Musk Stranded? Elon Musk has been looking for an estimated $750M dollar loan to finance his SpaceX company. Musk has a $24.6B fortune, but for being one of the richest people on the planet, he’s relatively cash poor. Musk’s terms for the SpaceX loan were too much, even for his closest ally on […]

6 Examples of Successful E-Commerce Facebook Ads

6 Examples of Successful E-Commerce Facebook Ads Facebook’s 1.4B daily active users make it an extremely attractive platform for advertisers. However, connecting with this massive user base is easier said than done. Formerly, businesses could simply use their Facebook page to create and share marketing content and receive a substantial ROI. Nowadays, this form of marketing […]

Under Armour Bans Corporate Strip Club Expenses

1. Under Armour Bans Strip Club Expenses Under Armour joins the #MeToo Movement after sending an email to all employees stating that adult entertainment and gambling can no longer be charged to corporate cards. Which begs the question, who thought this was a good idea? Previously, executives and employees, including Chairman and Chief Executive Kevin […]

7 Techniques to Cut Down Business Costs

7 Techniques to Cut Down Business Costs There’s no doubt about it: money helps make the world go round. This doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to afford everything you want for your business, however, there are some tips you can use to help trim the fat during those rather lean times. 1. Reduce Supply Expenses […]

7 Hacks to Get More Instagram Followers

7 Hacks to Get More Instagram Followers Wouldn’t it be nice if you could snap your fingers and instantly have a thousand more Instagram followers? Unfortunately, this isn’t reality. The most successful Instagram accounts require a lot of hard work and dedication. It also helps if you have a few tricks up your sleeve. Here […]

Amazon’s New HQ

1. Amazon’s New HQ Amazon has narrowed down their search for the new HQ in three cities: Dallas, TX, New York City and Crystal City, VA. What does each city have to offer? Amazon isn’t giving a lot away but there have been property purchases in play; cities preparing to be the winning contestant. A group […]

How to Create a More Globally-Compatible Online Business

How to Create a More Globally-Compatible Online Business In what should come as no surprise, the online global e-commerce market is intended to continue along its path of intense growth. Both B2B and B2C online retailers are seeing an upward trend that is expected to reach nearly $5B in sales by 2021. Source In order to […]

5 Real-World Lessons That You Can Learn From Twitter

5 Real-World Lessons That You Can Learn From Twitter Twitter is an online microblogging and social networking service. It enables users to send and read text messages of up to 280 characters. These messages are known as ‘tweets’ that were previously restricted to 140 characters, but the limit has now increased. Twitter has rapidly gained […]