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Google now has a Cybersecurity Company, Chronicle
Chronicle will initially offer two services: The VirusTotal anti-malware intelligence service, and a cybersecurity intelligence and analytics platform.
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In 2017 only 2% of small businesses actually secured their systems with proper protection.
Find out why and what they can do about it.
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Digital Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide
The 2 main pillars of digital marketing are online marketing and offline marketing. That said, since I’ll talk about online marketing in a separate guide, I’ll only mention the different areas of online marketing here, for the sake of completeness.
The 7 big categories of online marketing are:
- Search engine optimization (SEO)
- Search engine marketing (SEM)
- Content marketing
- Social Media Marketing (SMM)
- Pay-per-click advertising (PPC)
- Affiliate marketing
- Email marketing
Unbounce created a great infographic that sums up all kinds of online marketing in one neat chart.
NeilPatel.com click the link to read the rest of the story? Plus here is Neil’s Beginners Guide to Online Marketing.
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Surface Go Is Microsoft’s Big Bet
The new Surface Go is an attempt to bring most of the premium features of a $1,000 Surface Pro to something that’s both ultra-portable and more affordable.
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Hire a Virtual Assistant and Start Delegating
When it comes down to it, you need to be sure that your assistant will save you more money than they’ll cost. Start by tracking your time.
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The Legend of Nintendo
The 130-year-old gaming giant has once again turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania.
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4 Totally Awesome Reasons It’s Great to Be a Solopreneur
As of 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that there were more than 2.7 million nonemployer firms that are run solely by owners. Of that group, 35,584 were bringing in anywhere from $1 million to $2.49 million a year.
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How to Be Healthier, Happier and More Productive: It’s All in the Timing
First, our cognitive abilities don’t remain static over the course of a day. During the 16 or so hours we’re awake, they change—often in a regular, foreseeable manner. We are smarter, faster and more creative in some parts of the day than others.
Second, these daily fluctuations can be extreme. “The performance change between the daily high point and the daily low point can be equivalent to the effect on performance of drinking the legal limit of alcohol,”
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WPA3 Wi-Fi is here, and it’s harder to hack
New Wi-Fi routers will come with stronger protections for the data that flows between your computers, phones or smart home devices and your internet connection. It will also boost security in workplace
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The 2018 Internet Trends – A Deep Dive
At Code Conference every year, KPCB’s Mary Meeker delivers her Internet Trends Report — a State of the Union for the tech industry. … it comes packed with data and numbers sprinkled over 250+ slides. Here’s everything you can learn from this year’s report summed up in 12 minutes or less.
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Phone Skills For Flawless Sales and Support Conversations
Sales and support reps that possess the necessary soft skills still need tools to realize their full potential. Understanding what’s possible (plus learning the techniques) will lead to more won deals and 5-star reviews. Here are the phone skills to master for sales and support.
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Infrastructure On Demand Is Giving Small Businesses An Edge
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is addressing the needs of small businesses through access, storage and security while changing the way small businesses store data.
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The 13 Best Presentation Apps in 2018
A well-crafted slideshow can make your speech more powerful. What’s not fun is spending hours in PowerPoint or Keynote…
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What Job Skill Is Most Lacking in the U.S.? LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
We’re lacking in basic communications skills more than any other skill in the U.S. …
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How to be a more adaptable leader
If you’re a leader, before you issue instructions or hand out tasks, take the time to think through what you actually want to achieve.
What is the intent behind the work you want done? What is the outcome you desire? Does it matter how your team attacks it?
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5 Tips To Partnering Alongside A Business For The First Time
Last July, PaySimple.com released an infographic that discussed five amazing facts about small businesses. In the United States alone, there are 30 million small businesses established with more than 500,000 started up each year – approximately one business each minute!
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Competitive Analysis
A competitive analysis tells you what exists, not why it exists.
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Technology that changed us: The 1980s, from MS-DOS to the first GPS satellite
Which had the most impact on society: Two decades of MS-DOS compatible computing, or the first truly portable personal computer?
zdnet.com click the link to read the rest of the story.
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The Three Questions Facebook Uses To Guide Their Product Development
After examining their product successes and failures they have distilled their process down to three questions:
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We’re on the Brink of a New Era of Innovation. Will You Survive It?
Today, we must compete in a networked world in which the key to competitive advantage is no longer the sum of all efficiencies, but the sum of all connections. Strategy, therefore, must be focused on widening and deepening linkages to access ecosystems of technology, talent and information.
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The Differences Between Busy and Productive People
Busy people are hell-bent on fitting in more things into their day. Productive people cut their to-do list thoughtfully by 50 percent.
Inc.com click the link to read the rest of the story.
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Technology that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo
The Big Picture
In this 50-year retrospective, we’re not just looking at technology year by year, we’re looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad.
zdnet.com click the link to read the rest of the story.
How quickly do you see the changes coming and prepare yourself?
This Is How Google Will Collapse
The Big Picture
Google was a driving force in the technology industry ever since its disruptive entry in 1998. But in a world where people despised ads, Google’s business model was not innovation-friendly, and they missed several opportunities to pivot, ultimately rendering their numerous grand and ambitious projects unsustainable. Innovation costs money, and Google’s main stream of revenue had started to dry up.
Hackernoon.com click the link to read the rest of the story.
What will replace Google and/or Amazon?
Deadly attacks feared as hackers target industrial sites
Security
“This is no longer about data theft or business disruption. Someone can get hurt. It’s about physical consequences,” said Dan Scali, senior manager for FireEye’s industrial control system security consulting practice.
TheHill.com Click the link to read the rest of the story.
What contingency plans do you have if your business is disrupted?
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
Marketing
Don’t kick off a sales presentation by talking about your product, your headquarters locations, your investors, your clients, or anything about yourself. Instead, name the undeniable shift in the world that creates both (a) big stakes and (b) huge urgency for your prospect.
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You Make Or Break Your Life Between 5-7 AM
If you don’t prioritize and maximize your morning hours, you’ll always be left wondering what your life could have been. You’ll never know what you could have had.
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When you do start to work?
Bad bots detected on 100% of web login pages, here’s how to protect your business
All websites with login pages have been hit with bad bot traffic and face Account Takeover (ATO) attempts, according to a Tuesday report from Distil Networks.
techrepublic.com Click the link to read the rest of the story.
Are you sure your business website is safe from attack?
A Tour of The Top 10 Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
In machine learning, there’s something called the “No Free Lunch” theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every problem, and it’s especially relevant for supervised learning (i.e. predictive modeling).
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