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Wednesday Roundup: Tips for Entrepreneurs

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Image: Megforce1 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Tales from the Field: Raising an Entrepreneur. Why: Entrepreneurship can start at any age. Autumn Thompson shares the story of her business savvy eight year old daughter.

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Good Storylines Make For Great Fundraising

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Phillips Fox [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Storytelling can be found in everything. Memories are made of stories. Good storylines imprint right into the minds of an audience, sometimes permanently.

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Monday Roundup: Knocking Down Silos

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Image: jasongillman via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain. So it’s going on holiday for the 4th of July weekend (but it won’t tell me where, which is very irritating). It’ll be back, fresh and shiny, on Friday, July 8. To all those celebrating, have a happy & safe Independence Day!

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Creating Great Video Without the “Shoot”

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Maybe the National Archives has some great public domain footage that would work well for your project. . Perhaps you can find a way to free up a day or two of their time to take photos that will be useful to your project (in addition to helping you build an archive of imagery for future projects) ?

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Does Too Much Technology Make Us Bored?

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Image by Emiichann (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. (The screen’s been going blank at random intervals, and since it’s still under the protection plan, I decided to listen to my friends and get the pros to look at it. Too cool for school.

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

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Image: Jonas Bergsten [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Instead, it’s every piece of marketing jargon imaginable, slapped into one convoluted list, then followed up with a fairly unhelpful statement on ideal clients, market cap, expertise, specialization, or anything else. It’s Swiss Army Knife marketing. It can open bottles.

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Business Lessons Learned From a Speaking Gig Gone Bad

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Image: Wikimedia Commons ( public domain ). And as far as I can tell, it disappeared when the organizers were having so much trouble with the many moving parts of the conference, that they decided to remove said moving parts that weren’t important enough. Of course, I was extremely irritated when it happened.

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