THERE IS A term for news organizations that predate the internet—legacy media—and you may have heard they’re dying. But in researching who was watching and reading what at the end of 2016, one thing became clear: Some of the oldest voices in the news are still the biggest. Just the print issue of The New York Times reaches more people every day than the Huffington Post does, and the nightly news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC each have many millions more viewers than even the highest-trafficked news site. At least for now.
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The Basic Things You Need To Know About Setting Up An Online Commerce Website | CoolBusinessIdeas.com
If you are a budding entrepreneur, it is pretty normal to want to start somewhere where the playing field is evened out: the Internet. Now, you could go old school and set up a physical store, go through the usual stuff like doing a titles search to sift through properties, get the permits for construction, and so on. But if you do not have a lot of capital to begin with, that is going to hurt you more than it will help you.
This is why online stores are becoming more of a trend. It allows all business owners, from small start-ups to big companies, to share their products online. Everyone has the same chance to get noticed, so it is a matter of applying a bit more elbow grease to your online strategies. There are lots of places where you can have your products available for purchase like Amazon, Shopify, eBay, and so on. But you know, nothing beats having your own site exclusively hosting your products.
Here we will round-up a list of things you will need to start your very own eCommerce website.
Why Are There 9 Supreme Court Justices? | Live Science
Ever since Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in February 2016, the Supreme Court has had just eight justices. While the number of justices has fluctuated over the years, there may soon be nine now that President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to the court.
The original U.S. Constitution did not set the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Therefore, it was up to Congress to decide, and in 1801, it set the number at five. But things didn’t stay that way for long.
‘Pokémon GO’ Is Finally Evolving With 80 New Gen 2 Pokémon Arriving This Week | Forbes
It’s been something of an open secret that Generation 2 Pokémon from the games Gold and Silver installments were coming to Pokémon GO at some point. But at this point, with so little official information, it seemed as if their arrival was still months away.
Try days away.
This morning, Niantic has announced that Gen 2 is rolling out (almost) all at once with 80 new Gen 2 Pokémon appearing in the game by the end of this week. These are all “Johto” region Pokémon, and while the game has gotten a few Gen 2 “babies” in an earlier event, this is Pokémon GO’s biggest update since launch, one that should result in a huge resurgence in interest, even if the game has fallen out of favor with many.
6 Inspiring Couples Proving You Can Mix Work and Love | Inc.com
Starting a business with your spouse. To some, it might sound like trouble; for others, like these six couples who are partners in life and work, it has produced harmony and great returns. If you’re considering going down that path, take their advice by protecting clearly defined roles, open lines of communication, and a strongly grounded relationship. “If one person has the capacity to defer, and one person better have the capacity to defer, someone’s got to do that,” says Mario Del Pero, who founded the fast-casual restaurant chain Mendocino Farms in 2005 with his wife, Ellen Chen.
Also: Don’t bring the boardroom into the (proverbial) bedroom. “We’ve become proponents of not talking about work in downtime,” says Andrew Goetz, who founded the skincare line Malin+Goetz with his partner, Matthew Malin, in 2004. “If I see a phone at dinner, I whack it across the room.”
Want to Produce Great Content? Get Your Employees On Board | The Startup Magazine
You want your customers to be your brand ambassadors, but truth be known – your employees already are. And on a side note – if you aren’t confident that they are ambassadors for your business, why are they working for you?
Your employees have superior knowledge of the products or services that you offer and have the most interaction with clients, meaning that they are attuned to the demands, expectations and concerns of the customers.
All of the content that a business creates, should provide value to the customer base and target audience. With your employees having first-hand access to the questions and concerns voiced by customers, it makes good sense for them to be involved, or be kept up to date with the creation of the content.
The DraftCard App Launches: Share Your Student Athlete Experience | Peter Mehit
Our client, DraftCard, Inc just launched their new iOS mobile application. DraftCard allows student athletes to create a FREE shareable card that highlights:
- Sport and position
- School, city, class and level of play
- Statistics and performance milestones and achievement
- Height, weight and GPA
- Showcase cards as images or embed in a webpage
DraftCard is designed with the young athlete in mind, and helps student athletes show off their skills. The application will eventually have a search feature that will allow recruiters and college programs to search for prospects using the app.
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How Video Streaming Services Like Netflix and VIDGO are Changing TV Forever | CoolBusinessIdeas.com
We all remembered when MTV famously played the music video “Video Killed the Radio Star” over and over when the service first aired. On air radio remains a mainstay because it is one of the few information and entertainment services one can access and enjoy while working, driving or working. However, video streaming does have the potential to kill TV services for several reasons. This is why stations like HBO are changing and tech companies from YouTube to Amazon are altering how they do business.
Content You Can’t Find Anywhere Else
YouTube, Amazon and Netflix have free content available on demand while other movies and shows require you to pay per episode. They try to differentiate themselves by not offering the same catalog of movies and TV shows.
Partially in response to licensing rights that were a legal mess to get approved when Amazon and Netflix tried to license American TV shows abroad, they started curating their own content and creating their own shows. For example, you can only find the modern remake of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Fuller House” on Netflix while “Transparent” is only on Amazon Prime.
Signing Off: The Most Effective Ways to End Your Emails | Business News Daily
A simple “thank you” might be all it takes to get your co-workers or clients to respond to the emails you send them, new research finds.
A study from email productivity software provider Boomerang revealed that the phrase you use to sign off your emails can impact whether or not you get a reply.
The research found that emails that close with a variation of “thank you” get significantly more responses than emails ending with other popular closings. Specifically, “thanks in advance” had a 65.7 percent response rate, the highest among the eight most popular email closings.
Verizon’s new plan: Consumers win, investors lose | CNN Money
Verizon has brought back its unlimited data plan. That’s great if you’re a Verizon customer. But it is terrible news for its investors.
Verizon (VZ, Tech30) stock fell nearly 1.5% in early trading Monday. It’s now down about 10% so far this year, making it the Dow’s worst performer of 2017.
Verizon’s move is a clear sign the company has to pull out all the stops to remain competitive with wireless rivals AT&T (T, Tech30), Sprint (S) and T-Mobile (TMUS).
“In recent months, both T-Mobile and Sprint had some success taking additional share from Verizon by virtue of their unlimited offerings,” wrote Morgan Stanley analysts in a report Monday morning.
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