5 Subtle Ways to Give Your Online Business a Competitive Advantage
We’ve reached a point at which there are new online businesses being launched just about every single day. This past February, we wrote about the ‘Top 10 Business Opportunities to Make Money’ and covered only a fraction of the different
Making It Hard for People to Buy from You Kills Your Business
Guest Speaker: William Bauer "You Don't Succeed by Making it Difficult to Buy From You" I’m every pizza and street food stand’s worst nuisance: an obstinately cashless consumer. Against my parents’ better judgment, I never carry cash. I use my Amex for everything
How to Create Great Business Ideas in 6 Easy Steps
Guest Speaker: Alan Hall "How to Create a Winning Business Idea--in Six Easy Steps" I often meet business founders whose minds are overflowing with brilliant business ideas for new products. They seem to develop terrific new concepts every single day of
Beware! The Dark and Crucial World of Content Marketing
Guest Speaker: Mike Li "The Dark Side of Content Marketing" What is there to know about content marketing? Well, one thing is for sure; content is king. A blood-thirsty king. Now feed him "Create awesome content." "Deliver value." "WOW your users." "Master the
Mark Cuban’s Take on AI in The Next 3 Years
Guest Speaker: Mark Suster "Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence or You’ll be a Dinosaur in 3 Years" Machine Learning / AI They discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark looks for in an entrepreneur
Top 5 Ways To Sell Your Idea To Customers
Guest Speaker: Daniel DiPiazza "5 Proven Strategies to Break Out With Your New Business" Before customers buy your idea over (or in addition to) another company’s, you must show them why your product or service is different and/or better. If you can show why
Challenge your Creativity with Sharpen Design
Designers can work in multitude of fields. They are the ones who form shapes into reality. They also play a critical role envisioning products made with safe materials that can be perpetually cycled, and eliminate the concept of "waste". In order to makes them produce sustainable art they
A 14 Year Old’s Story Building and Marketing a Chatbot
Guest Speaker: Alec Jones "The Ups and Downs of Building and Marketing a Chat Bot When You’re 14" This is a short story about what I learned while coding a popular Facebook Messenger bot and my first week marketing it (a tweet
Your Story Is The Key To A Great Product
Behind its adaptive layout engine and advanced animations, InVision Studio has a story. Like all products, the world’s most powerful screen design tool went through several phases of creative development—but Studio was guided by a narrative that came to influence
Social Currency is the Great Key To Your Success
The way you value people, the way you act in a social situation, and the way people value you, isn’t perfectly measurable. However, we can see trends that occur between different types of people. Knowing your value to the world Knowing your