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Square Sellers Will Get Apple’s ‘Tap to Pay’ on iPhones This Year

Tech.Co

Square is one of the biggest POS systems on the market for retailers and restaurants alike, while Apple is one of the biggest tech giants. Their system genuinely is top of the class for any small business, so it's worth considering with or without Tap to Pay. Secure and Seamless Payment.

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Using Social Media To Deal With Customer Trolls

InfoChachkie

In searching for world-class examples of public responses to irate customers'' complaints, I found one that emanated from an unlikely place, Savusavu, Fiji. Clearly, the relative degree of informality should be consistent with your company''s marketing "voice." Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. PHONE CALLS.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

socalTECH

Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. It's largely a publishing market, and has been around for hundreds of years. The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. We provide rich media to the STM market.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

InfoChachkie

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. What is massively different from now and when I wrote the book is that social media didn’t exist back then. In Art Of The Start , you encourage your readers to be responsive and to strive to return emails within 24-hours.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

Both Sides of the Table

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Find other media outlets to tell your story. But if you’re going to say something controversial make it about the market you serve. Make the story be about your market. Know what you want the market to talk about.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

Both Sides of the Table

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. Call on me.