5 Ways to Stop Embarrassing Yourself on LinkedIn | Entrepreneur

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How exciting! You’ve just received a great introduction to a big potential client. And as you and your team work hard to whip up a stellar pitch, what do you think the potential client is doing?

She’s researching you, of course. And chances are, the first place she’ll go to learn more about your background, experience and personality is LinkedIn.

What’s she going to find when she pulls up your profile? An amateurish photo? Outdated information? Unpopular political views? A lack of references?

In business, it’s vital to focus on developing a quality LinkedIn profile and avoid making a poor first impression. Here are five ways to ensure you don’t embarrass yourself on this fast-growing and powerful platform:

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Is a $15 Minimum Wage Too High? | Bloomberg Business

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As the proposed federal minimum wage goes up and up, economists support it less and less. In January 2014, seven Nobel laureates and eight ex-presidents of the American Economic Association signed a letter backing a federal minimum wage of $10.10 an hour by 2016, up from $7.25. They said it would “provide a much-needed boost” to low-income workers while causing “little or no” job loss. Fifteen dollars an hour is another story. None of those luminaries signed the letter in July that endorsed a Senate bill introduced by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) to raise the federal minimum to $15 an hour by 2020.

Regional economic differences are one reason a lot of economists are nervous about jumping to $15: A wage floor that’s right for New York or San Francisco could be too high for Brownsville, Texas; Gadsden, Ala.; or Ponce, Puerto Rico. In such places, $15 an hour “may have large negative employment effects,” Ronald Ehrenberg, a Cornell University labor economist, wrote in an e-mail. He was one of about 600 economists who signed the $10.10 letter last year. He says he wasn’t approached to sign the $15 letter but would have said no if asked.

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Ford shifts truck production from Mexico to Ohio | Money CNN

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Ford’s heavy duty pickup trucks which used to be built in Mexico started rolling off an assembly line in Ohio this week.

That’s good news for the 1,000 Ford workers in Ohio, who might have otherwise been out of work.

It’s also good publicity for Ford (F), which has been under fire for investing so much in Mexico. In April, the automaker said it would invest $2.5 billion in transmission plants in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Guanajuato, creating about 3,800 jobs there.

Ford’s south-of-the-border strategy has drawn heavy criticism from groups such as the United Auto Workers union and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The Avon Lake, Ohio, plant produced its first batch of Ford’s full-size F-650 and F-750 pick up trucks on Wednesday.

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Faking It at Work? Why You’re Better Off Being True to Yourself | Business News Daily

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It may seem like you’re helping your career by being a team player and building relationships by faking interest in meetings, pretending to like a co-worker when you don’t or supporting ideas you’re not in favor of. However, new research shows that employees are hurting themselves when they’re not true to their beliefs.

Being inauthentic can make employees feel immoral, which in turn can lead to job unhappiness, frustration and burnout, according to a study recently published in the Psychological Science journal.

It’s important to not overlook the psychological distress that comes with inauthentic behavior, said Maryam Kouchaki, one of the study’s authors and a professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

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Non-Profit Growth Strategies | Business Tips

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downloadHere’s what we know. For profit companies develop a vision, strategic plan, execute it and grow.  So why shouldn’t non-profit organizations do the same? At CURE Childhood Cancer, our mission is to fund research that will lead to a cure for children’s cancer in which 16,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. So while we don’t manufacture or service gadgets, our approach for driving up revenue is built on the same business model as a for-profit company, and it works.  Over 9 years, we have grown 452% bringing passion and purpose to our goals of dispersing millions of dollars to medical research institutions and running innovative support programs to help patients and families facing the extraordinary challenges of childhood cancer.

Below are the primary ways we have embraced “entrepreneur-thinking” to exponentially grow our non-profit to the next level, getting closer to fulfilling our mission:

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Different by Deisgn | Peter Mehit

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pictureIt’s the little things.  Shine your shoes.  Don’t chew gum.  Turn your phone off.

All of these small gestures show you’re serious.  The most basic elements of communicating your competence are spelling and grammar.  Grammar is becoming a little more fluid as pop culture references work their way into common usage.  On the other hand, spelling is binary.  It’s right, or it’s not.  Clearly, Preferred Kitchen And Bath is definitely different, either by the lack of ability to spell design, or by deisgn (pronounced ‛dees-in), which is a new school of design.

I think Newport Mesa owes them a deisgn refund.  Just sayin’…

  3 Ways to Get More Ideal Customers |  Getentrepreneurial.com

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ideal-custIt costs too much to do business with some people.

Who are your “some people?”

How much time do they steal from your enjoyable customers? How much energy do you give them? How much attention that can be more profitably invested in your ideal customers relationships?

You’re throwing good time, energy, attention and therefore money after bad.

So why are you doing business with “some people?”

Select one of them. Just one. The most obnoxious of the bunch.

Here are 3 Ways to Get More Ideal Customers:

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Alphabet Lets Google Chase Moonshots and Stay Profitable | WIRED

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GOOGLE IS NOW many Googles.

Company co-founder Larry Page said in a blog post Monday that Google is reorganizing into multiple companies that will sit under a new umbrella operation called Alphabet. Core businesses—Search, YouTube, and Android—will operate semi-separately from Google’s myriad “moonshots,” including the X lab and Page’s various life science projects.

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3 million gallons of toxic waste spilled by EPA is turning Colorado waters to orange sludge | Mashable

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DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency says the mine waste spill into Colorado waters is much larger than originally estimated.

The EPA now says 3 million gallons of wastewater spilled Wednesday and Thursday, instead of 1 million. The revision came after the EPA used a stream gauge from the U.S. Geological Survey. An EPA-supervised crew, who was trying to enter the mine to pump out and treat the water, caused the spill. The agency has not said how long cleanup efforts will take.

But an EPA official said Sunday that she doesn’t believe wildlife will suffer significant health impacts from the wastewater from an abandoned mine in southwestern Colorado.

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