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Retargeting Ads for Small Business: The Basics | Small Business Trends

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When a business is just starting out, the early, personal relationships result in the first customers, partners, and employees. The most successful companies in the world never lose sight of relationships as the foundation of their business.

You might not think of digital marketing for your business in relationship-building terms, but it’s an effective way to gain clarity on what your strategy should be.

Digital marketing can be intimidating for small business owners, rife with uncertainty over which platforms and tactics will deliver the best value. Coming up with a clear strategy seems like a never-ending puzzle.

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OnePlus 6T Review: All of the Good Stuff, None of the Bad | Digital Trends

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Like changing the clocks for daylight savings, the biannual OnePlus launch has become so regular that we almost take it for granted. Despite this clockwork-like frequency, we still find ourselves caught up in the hype and excitement — much of it generated by the masterful OnePlus marketing team — and full of anticipation for the new model.

This is the OnePlus 6T, and like previous T models it’s not a giant leap over the product it replaces. Does that mean our anticipation has been quelled? Has the seemingly endless wave of new OnePlus phones become so much that we’re now not all that bothered by a new one? It has to happen at some point, right? Well that day hasn’t come yet. The OnePlus 6T is so good, it doesn’t need the hype

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Beijing office beats workday blues with running track, herb garden and “mini-mountain” | New Atlas

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Perhaps going to work in the morning wouldn’t be such a drag if the workplace was designed by People’s Architecture Office (PAO). The firm is responsible for off-the-wall ideas like a pedal-powered RV and ventilation shaft dwelling, and has now revealed an unusual office complete with running track, garden and a seating area meant to resemble a mountainside.

The office serves as the new Beijing headquarters for the Leping Foundation, a non-profit. It measures 1,100 sq m (11,840 sq ft) and, most notably, includes a running track available to any employees who want to stretch their legs. Above it is a suspended planter full of greenery. Staff are encouraged to partake in the gardening, and its vegetables and herbs, as well as produce from other hydroponic gardens nearby, are harvested and prepared on-site for lunch each day in an open kitchen.

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Make Your Restaurant Successful | The Startup Magazine

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Starting a restaurant may seem like a huge leap of faith, but there are some very simple guidelines you can follow to make your restaurant a success. Food is a universal joy throughout most religions, cultures, and nations, so if you have the desire to work hard and create some amazing food then why not have a go? Below are some tips to starting a restaurant:

Design the Perfect Menu

Before you begin you need to decide on the type of food your restaurant is going to serve. You may decide that you want to serve healthy food or maybe you want to serve Indian food. A good idea would be to conduct some market research to find out what type of food the customers would like. Find out as much information as possible. For example, ask people about their favourite restaurant dishes, what foods they dislike, etc. You want to make sure that your restaurant appeals to the target audience, so market research can really help here. Most successful restaurants only offer a small selection of meals each day; this not only cuts down on the cost of food waste to the owner, but it also stops the customer feeling overwhelmed by the size of the menu.

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Netflix Is Finally Canceling Shows. Good | WIRED

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Orange Is the New Black’s sentence is up. Netflix announced this week that the show’s seventh season, hitting the streaming service next year, would be its last. After that, it’s dunzo. For many viewers, this is sad news—the inmates of Litchfield have been a part of the conversation for a long time now. But for everyone else, and for the future of TV broadly, it’s a move that’s long overdue

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Survey Shows Founders Ignored by VCs Are Succeeding With Equity Crowdfunding | Entrepreneur

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According to recent research done by Harvard Business School, women are less than 10 percent of the entrepreneurial and venture-capital labor pool, Hispanics have been around 2 percent and African Americans have been less than 1 percent.

Empowering entrepreneurial equality is just one of the many reasons Kendrick Nguyen started Republic, an equity crowdfunding platform. The Republic CEO believes equity crowdfunding can overcome many of the challenges women and minorities have historically faced when it comes to raising venture capital for their startups.

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The Key Things to Watch Out for When Starting an Online Business | Getentrepreneurial.com

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Allow time and resources to work before your business is a success

It does not happen overnight. Regardless of how much money or resources you have put into your online business, it will not be a success within a single day. You have to wait for everything to work or take off once you have set the right mechanisms. Even after that, you have to keep working and managing those resources and mechanisms to make sure they are in their rightful place. Use the services of a good digital marketing agency to help you stay ahead in terms of streamlining your marketing tactics.

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Can carbon fiber car panels double as energy storage materials? | New Atlas

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Carbon fiber as we know it is one of the most impressive materials in our toolkit. Its incredible lightness and strength has seen it take hold in everything from competitive cycling, to supercar design to cutting edge aircraft. But could it also play a role in energy storage? One team of scientists has been exploring the possibilities, and say that carefully engineered forms of the material do indeed boast the necessary electrochemical properties, raising some interesting possibilities for weight-saving vehicle design.

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Google Assistant Helps You Kickstart The Day With A Visual Snapshot | CoolBusinessIdeas.com

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When Google launched the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL on October 9, it announced a number of new features coming to Assistant — but only on Pixel phones. Now, however, it’s revealing a few new features coming to Google Assistant as a whole, meaning all Assistant-enabled phones will get them.

Perhaps the most interesting new feature is the ability to see a “snapshot” of your day, similar to how Google Now operated back in the day. Now, when you activate Google Assistant, you can swipe up on the display to see things like event recommendations, show recent notes and lists, reminders, and so on.

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NASA Wants to Send Humans to Venus, to Live in Airships Floating on Clouds | Live Science

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Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus.

Today, Venus is unlikely to be a dream destination for aspiring space tourists. As revealed by numerous missions in the last few decades, rather than being a paradise, the planet is a hellish world of infernal temperatures, a corrosive toxic atmosphere and crushing pressures at the surface. Despite this, NASA is currently working on a conceptual manned mission to Venus, named the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept —(HAVOC).

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