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Zack Oates of Ovation on Building Business Connections through Digital Storytelling

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Soliciting feedback from customers often seems like a daunting task. However, Zack Oates and his team at Ovation have cracked the code with a proven strategy that not only encourages guest feedback, but also establishes a personal connection for exceptional results.Zack Oates and the guest feedback platform Ovation have taken a radically different approach to hearing from customers, which stems

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Working on your big startup idea, securing finance and finding those first core team members are all time-consuming tasks. Branding and marketing may not be the first things on your mind, but neglecting them could be devastating for a new company. On the other hand, building a strong brand identity

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The knowledge of becoming a public company is greatly misunderstood in many markets.My background working in healthcare and being an advanced specialist in critical care medicine gave me great strengths in accessing situations, strategies and outcomes, but it did not give me the skills I needed to lead a public

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29-Year-Old’s Hobby Turned Side Hustle Brings in $8k Monthly

It's the era of the side hustle, and if you've ever considered starting one to earn some extra cash outside of your 9-5, you're in good company. These days, more than one-third of U.S. adults have side hustles, and their supplemental gigs make an average of $891 a month, according

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How Cross-Channel Marketing Can Transform Your Small Business

With most customers coming from online sources, entrepreneurs now need to focus a considerable amount of their time and marketing dollars on tools like social media, email marketing and online advertising. The challenge is that consumers have a wide range of preferences when it comes to online use. Some spend

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5 Ways to Automate Your Hiring Process With Minimal Errors

Automation is inevitable these days for a productive hiring process. However, having less human judgment and personalization can lead to missed opportunities and errors.When doing research for my restaurant and hospitality job platform, I saw for myself the many glitches and mistakes overreliance on automation can make on companies' job

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9 Questions Leaders Must Ask to End Employee Burnout

I've fully embraced the cliche and, every New Year, I make business resolutions. This year, I'm focused on well-being. As a tech entrepreneur in the healthcare space, well-being is often at the forefront of my mind.After attending a strategic forum for business leaders earlier this year, I walked away with

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The Marketing Mistake I Turned Into $1 Million in New Business

Have you ever made a mistake in business that you wish didn't happen? The truth is that every business owner must face failure at some point, but problems don't have to be pointless.In fact, some mistakes lead to incredible success! Take the Post-it, for example. In the process of trying

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8 Winning Strategies for Succeeding in a Hyper-Competitive Market

It's certainly enviable to have minimal competition in a hot space, but in the real world, this scenario is seldom the case. Even for category creators, those who introduce a new product or service that creates a new market, it's only a matter of time before someone else comes along

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Want to Close More Sales? Learn the 3 Types of ‘No.’

I began my career as a door-to-door salesman. It was hard. I would barely get my first sentence out, and their response would be, "Not interested!" — followed by a slammed door.These days, I'm a little disappointed when I don't get any pushback. I'll think, Wait a minute, come on,

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