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What Does Dr Peter Polack Say About Ophthalmology Marketing in His Book?

Peter J. Polack, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist who specializes in laser refractive and cataract surgery. He is also the founder of Emedikon, a venture marketing firm that helps medical practices enhance their marketing strategies using his proprietary Polack Practice Marketing Protocol™. As the son of a well-known ophthalmologist, Dr. Polack has a firsthand understanding

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The Benefits of Switching from Twitch to Facebook for Streaming

Many are unsure where to begin their streaming careers, between Twitch and Facebook. Twitch is the original streaming platform and is still the largest, whereas Facebook Gaming is on the rise and synced with Facebook profiles. Ummer Naviwala, aka “Omareloff”, made the decision to move over to Facebook for his streaming career, and now has

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How To Get PR For Your Brand: A Comprehensive Guide

It has always been extremely important to get good press for your brand because that is one of the things that can make or break a company.  That is why the word “public relations” is thrown out there a lot when it comes to advertising and marketing in general. PR is a buzzword that companies

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How This Entrepreneur Went From a 1.6 GPA to Making $50,000 Per Month

When Joseph Costello graduated highschool, he did so with a 1.6 gpa. When everyone he knew decided to go to college, he moved to downtown Austin and began making money full time from the internet. As an entrepreneur, he went from almost failing highschool, to making six figures a month. Entrepreneur Joseph Costello does content

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Interview with Judge Graham: Digital Marketing and Culture Expert

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of sitting down for an exclusive interview with Judge Graham. Judge is a serial entrepreneur, marketer, and speaker. Graham has had massive success starting, growing, and selling companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. I asked him what he’s done, how he’s done it, and much more.  Hey Judge,

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5 Stories When Memes Have Helped Marketing A Lot

Digital marketing changes quickly and keeps adding new forms of infotainment. Competition forces brands to get creative and think of alternative marketing tricks to win over the target audience, which is how we got to the point where memes started playing a major role in digital campaigns. Memes have become a natural part of the

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5 Essentials to Becoming a Productive Internet Entrepreneur

It’s true — the advent of the internet has indeed revolutionalized the way we look at entrepreneurship. Bricks-and-mortar types of businesses are becoming increasingly obsolete. And so, for aspiring entrepreneurs, going all-out on digital is the logical step forward. Unfortunately, the internet is no exception to the rife competition that comes with an entrepreneurial state

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7 Tips for Growing Your Audience and Being Unique on Instagram

Instagram is that platform where almost 1 billion people are active monthly and are constantly sharing their photos and videos and various other kinds of visual posts on a regular basis. Since its introduction in 2010, Instagram has never looked back. The growth that it has seen is tremendous and this is what has left

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What to Do to Make Your Instagram Bio a Traffic Magnet

If you are a marketer in charge of making your brands popular, you will appreciate that the first challenge for a brand is to strike the right impression at the very first encounter with the consumer. This is as true in physical marketing as it is in the online marketing environment. However, in the world

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Success Interview With Content Creator Jun Yang AKA Jefo

Share your background with me and tell me how you became an internet star. Back in 2018, I was attending college. My life was totally different back then. I was actually at university studying to become a doctor, but it didn’t take long for me to admit that my heart wasn’t in it. Once I

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Unique Ways to Brand your Beauty and Health Business

The sector of health and beauty is totally different from the one 20-30 years ago. Earlier, beauty meant to female. Now, there is no gender gap when it comes to health and beauty consciousness. Both of you (male and female) are equally conscious of your look and fitness. This trend has boosted the growth of

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Mistakes To Avoid In Promotional Product Marketing

Promotional product marketing is a popular and successful marketing strategy that renders effective results. Promotional product marketing does a good job at brand awareness and brand recall. Any marketing strategy will only be good and successful if it is executed well and without mistakes. The same goes for promotional product marketing. If you want your

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Meet Michelle: LA Based Social Media Consultant and Photographer

Michelle Balingit, also known as Sey Michelle, is a Los Angeles based social media consultant and brand photographer. She began as a self-taught photographer over 9 years ago and has been involved in marketing for 5 years, so when she fell in love with social media marketing, she put her two passions together. Creating her

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5 Signs Your Startup No Longer Has the Capacity to Handle Its Own SEO

If you’re not focusing on SEO, you’re falling behind. Every company now has to have a presence on the Internet, and they have to invest the time into making that presence rank on search engines. That’s a given these days. It’s not hard to get a handle on the basics of search engine optimization, either.

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Improving Your Small Business Online Exposure with Good SEO

The beauty of inbound marketing is the fact that it’s an incredibly subtle form of business promotion. Think of it as a sales method disguised as a problem-solving technique. It identifies people who are in need of your services and products and then convinces them that buying from you was their idea all along. The

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Why Good UX Is Essential for Your Business

User experience is the way in which the end user perceives your product or service as a whole. As users conduct more of their daily business interactions online it’s becoming harder to provide a frictionless experience which doesn’t leave room for confusion and fits into their everyday routine. Users expect their experience to be seamless

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A Billionaire in The Making: David Zhao, Managing Partner of NXT Group

In this Future Sharks interview I spend time with millennial leader David Zhao, a billionaire in the making. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and activist originally from Shanghai, China. He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of NXT Group, an American conglomerate company headquartered in New York City. Its diversified businesses include NXTFactor (full-service digital

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Connecting with Bloggers in your Industry at Scale

This is about connecting ? It’s nice to plug yourself into communities you and your business align with. Connecting with bloggers is a great way to reach established and engaged communities. These people are the reason you do what you do right? So you can spend time with vibrant people who you align with. Bloggers

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How to do PR and get Featured on Forbes

When a top publication site or influencer discovers your product and raves about how great your product its, business will grow overnight. If you are wondering how to reach that level and get featured on Forbes, TechCrunch, Mashable, Inc., BuzzFeed, and Huffington Post, the following PR strategies will help you growth hack that process.  What

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Content Marketing and Social Media: Ultimate Digital Companions

Personal communications are not being the same old story anymore! Instead, it has come a long way now from the time when the smoke signals and pigeon post came into existence. But, it is true that the ultimate core value is still the same which is nothing but the human communication of course. Moreover, if

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Expert In Lead Generation For Small and Medium Business

Guillaume Godbout has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and advertising. As a web marketing specialist and lead generation expert, he has helped more than 500 companies to attract new customers through unique web strategies. He also holds an executive MBA from the Université de Sherbrooke and is the founding president of the

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How This 5-Foot Traveler Gets Paid While Traveling The World Full-Time

What’s the last thing you’d do if you had a crippling fear of flying? Well for 25-year-old Sarah Gallo, it was to embrace it and overcome this fear as she decided to set off traveling the world full-time! Since learning to work online and becoming one with the “Digital Nomad” lifestyle, Sarah has set foot

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Failing Your Way To Freedom

Will Bater is a digital marketer who has run 6 & 7 figure paid marketing and social campaigns for clients including Shaun White, Linkedin, and Music Festivals across the globe. He sold his first company at 23 and since then has focused on paid Facebook advertising for brands, events, and his own ventures. Let’s dive

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Slovak Tennis Player Nina Gajdosikova Shares Her Knowledge Designing For Billion Dollar Companies

Not only active in the tennis court (winning many prizes), Nina Gajdosikova has also embarked in design working with many brands such as Heineken, IBM, Peugeot, Philips, Ross and Nespresso. Throughout the years, she has learned how to harness the power of storytelling, design, and critical thinking to create experiences in brands that resonate with their core audiences.

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Meet an Investor in Startups Who is Determined to Burgeon Businesses

City where you’re from: London Hobbies: Taekwondo, Running/building businesses Favorite quote: “Live life. Don’t just pass time.” Social accounts (Twitter): Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Medium What are you working on? Richard Moore: I’m an investor in small businesses so I’m spending much of my time consulting with startups in the $0-$250k range. I have

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 Level Up: When It’s Time, It’s Time

How the CEO of Lenus Medical Consultants went from a broke and homeless drifter living out of the hospital–where his premature daughter spent her first 3 months– to a leader, visionary, and branding guru, who owns one of Dallas’s fastest growing Medical Sales & Marketing companies in less than 3 years. “The only limitations we

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Jake Shafer – Success at 23

From turning down the chance to attend The United States Military Academy in West Point, NY, to dropping out of Sam Houston State University, to working retail, Jake Shafer has achieved the success that would normally take a lifetime. Through determination and networking, Jake was given the chance to alter his own path. Edward Yip

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Generate Leads on Facebook Groups Without Advertising

Bruno Domingues is the founder of Multiuniversal and “Evolution”, he has helped coaches, consultants & service providers all over the world grow their businesses to 5 and 6-figures per month, while serving with total transparency. City where you’re from: Wakefield (I’m living in UK but I’m originally from Portugal so this is the city I live

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Don’t Just Snap It, Sell It! Or Earn Top Dollar For Your Footage!

Lance Ophof is the CEO/Co-Founder of Scoopbroker ….. his Co-founder Peter Ogren, is from Stockholm…. ScoopBroker is based in Santa Monica, CA. Hobbies: Photography (Drone), Beach Volleyball, foodie Favorite quote: “Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.” Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScoopBroker Background Why did you decide to become an

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Haris Reis: “Be Crazy Enough To Know It Will Work”

Haris Reis is the President & COO of Changing Lanes International. He is also a 2X National Award Winning Entrepreneur, 2X National Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and Elite Marketing Consultant. He has helped Changing Lanes International become a 6-figure business in less than a year. He was previously a growth hacker at Vayner Media building Gary

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Jonathan Maxim is Making America Fit Again with Vea Fitness

Jonathan Maxim is an app designer, digital marketer and thought leader in the fitness and technology realms. After leaving his job at a Fortune 50 company, he merged his management experience with his passion for technology and innovation to create Apps that encourage fitness and wellness. Educated at San Diego State University first in Graphic

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High School Dropout Johnny Brown Finds Success Leveraging The Power Of Social Media

Johnny Brown is a 25 year old entrepreneur utilizing the power of social media marketing to drive thousands of sales per month to various brands. City where you’re from: Myrtle Beach, SC Hobbies: Powerlifting, traveling, and content creation. Favorite quote: “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life

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Matthew Edgar Uses Data Analytics to Help Small Businesses and Non-Profits

Matthew Edgar is web consultant at Elementive. Since 2001, Matthew has helped hundreds of businesses and nonprofits grow through a process of analyzing and improving their website and online presence. He is the author of Elements of a Successful Website published in 2017. Matthew regularly speaks at conferences and teaches workshops about analytics and technical

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Learning From Experience with Haasith Sanka

Haasith Sanka is undergraduate at UC Riverside interested in developing innovative and fun application that make an impact on people’s lives.  City where you’re from: San Diego, CA Hobbies: basketball, playing video games, hiking Favorite quote: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”(Gandhi) Social accounts: @facebook

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Benjamin Yee Disrupts The Way Business Owners Manage Their Wholesale & Trading Companies

Welcome to Future Sharks Benjamin! Tell us a little about yourself:  Benjamin founded Higher Identity in late 2010. The company built EMERGE App (emergeapp.net) with a vision to put affordable software in the hands of all businesses selling physical products (distribution, wholesale, trading & e-commerce model). The visions’ to revolutionize small business are ran through

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Success Requires Focus, Work and Effort

Richard Lowe Jr is a bestselling author who has published 63 books, ghostwritten 12 books, and produced several hundred articles for blogs and publications. He is the owner and senior writer of The Writing King, which provides services such as ghostwriting, book coaching, WordPress implementation, blogging and copywriting. City where you’re from: Clearwater, FL Hobbies:

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Taylor and Bianca Share Their Experiences As Entrepreneurs Building UNIQ STUDIOS

UNIQ STUDIOS is a PR company that produces projects and events for individuals who appreciate art in varying forms. We believe that it’s beneficial to work solely with entities within the Midwest to fuel a growing evolution. We want to offer substantial opportunities for our peers through public events, exhibits, and prospect networking. To

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Meet the 21 Year Old Running One of Canada’s Fastest Growing Marketing Firms

Kieran is the Founder and CEO of Amplify Solutions Inc. , a student-run marketing firm that changes the way brands communicate with students.  Amplify is one of Canada’s fastest growing marketing firms, Kieran built the organization from a one man shop to a national organization with 60+ employees and 100+ influencer partnerships in 6 months.

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We Met The Marketer Behind Bestselling Authors, Fortune 500s, and VC-Backed Startups, Only To Realize He’s A 21 Year Old Who Never Went To College.

Have you ever wondered who is behind some of the most successful marketing campaigns on the Internet (or utter failures like the tone-deaf Pepsi commercial starring Kendall Jenner)? Why do some brands continuously push the boundaries and innovate while others grow stale? The hard truth is that marketing as we know it is both different

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Comfort in Ambiguity: A Lesson by Waseem Shabout

Waseem is a 20 year old user experience designer and student entrepreneur from Dallas Texas currently attending Babson College. He is the co-founder of Jinn Tech, a modern software development firm helping founders everywhere grow their business. He previously was a business development and user experience intern at Modo Payments, where he learned much of

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Emang Rabogadi (19) Motivates Millennials Through Social Media

Emang Rabogadi is the founder of Stars revealed, which is a program that hopes to empower and engage young people into acting on their goals. She also motivates young people on social media platforms and a small business owner. City where you’re from: Gaborone, Botswana Hobbies: Reading, politics, debate, swimming and singing Favorite quote: It

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Meet The Founders of Sinolife Media Consulting! – Future Sharks

Meet the Co Founders of Sinolife Media and Consulting! Here is a little snippet about them:  Co Founder, Jonathan “Fenni” Walters grew up in Southwest Atlanta. Attended Tri-Cities High School Of the Performing Arts. He states, “Hip-Hop is my first love because it speaks about my lifestyle and represents who I am and what I’m

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From College Dropout & Fry-Cook to Internet Hustler

Welcome to Future Sharks Danny! Tell us a little about yourself: I am a student of life, an adventure junkie and relentless go-getter. For 5 years I had experienced failure after failure after failure. In the last 6 months, I’ve been able to hone in on some unique skills acquired through the last 5 years to finally

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Darsh Thanki Refuses To Wait For Opportunities

Darsh began his career in tech at a young age, which lead him to found WebMotion Studios, an agency that focuses on building professional responsive websites, creating lead-generating Adwords campaigns, designing engaging graphic designs for clients. Darsh is also is the co-founder of RafikiMedia. City where you’re from: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Hobbies: My work

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Katie Melissa Drops Gold Marketing & E-Commerce Tips

At the age of 21, Katie began feeling out of place in college. The monotonous everyday routine was all but fulfilling. She knew she wanted to create something big and make a change in her life, as well as in others lives, as soon as possible. A few months after putting her college career on

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Doing Things The Right Way. The Grant Wise Way

Grant Wise is a serial entrepreneur and Founder of Real Estate Marketing University, an online media training company. Starting in the construction industry, Grant has worked with every aspect of the home building process. His move into the real estate world was a welcome dream. From working on building a brokerage to building an amazing

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Interview with Designer Yoel J Gonzalez

Yoel J Gonzalez is a young self taught ui/ux designer, photographer, a creative thinker & entrepreneur, from the beautiful city of Miami.Over the past years he has worked with a variety of clients and startups.Getting involved at a very young age in design gave Yoel the experience and knowledge to understand every corner and aspect

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Rafi Chowdhury Is Not Concerned With His Net Worth. He Cares About His Net Knowledge

Rafi Chowdhury is the founder of Chowdhury’s Digital and co-founder of myCampusHacks. He helps companies like Vapetek, Shapes Brow Bar, Win Hyundai, Wound Care Surgeons, and Easley Transportation grow their revenue. Examiner.com calls him the go-to guy for traffic generation, SplashOPM says he is one of the top Growth Hacking gurus on the web, Start-up

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How Ishan Goel Launched An Empire While Still Attending High School.

Ishan Goel is a Youth Marketer, Entrepreneur, Photographer and a full time student. He has managed to network and connect with top professionals in his community and owns three companies. He is featured in Forbes and Business Insider and continues to motivate young professionals on a daily bases. City where you’re from: Born in Boston

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Mitch Hills Shares His Best Advice For Entrepreneurs

City where you’re from: Brisbane, Australia Hobbies: Basketball, reading Favorite quote: “It’s better to do something imperfectly than nothing perfectly” Twitter: @mitchills Why did you decide to become an entrepreneur? To be honest I can’t remember! I don’t think there was a definitive moment for me, but I remember being in high school and wanting

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We Talked Marketing with Nate Spell From Them Magazines

Hey Nate! Tell us a bit about you I’m Nate Spell, 17 year old CEO of Them Magazines. C/CMSgt in Civil Air Patrol, enthusiastic entrepreneur and award winning innovator. City where you’re from: Muncie, Indiana Hobbies: Graphic Design, Soccer, Speaking Favorite quote: “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Twitter: @DadBlox Why

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How to Become an Influencer with Daniel Gefen

Serial Entrepreneur | Mentor | Host | Father to 4 Little Rascals Daniel Gefen is the host of the top rated podcast show ‘Can I Pick Your Brain?’ where he picks  the brains of some of the most influential people in the business space. He is also the co-founder of GetFeatured.com – an agency that

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Meet The 20-Year Old Dropout Who Controls Your Social Media: Rees Vinsen

Rees is the deeply motivated, industrious, and ambitious 20-year old founder of Adduco Media Group. With no formal qualifications he has become an award winning entrepreneur, speaker and mentor and now leads a small team of millennials that influence a considerable segment of the Australasian social media market. Rees is experienced in navigating the intersection

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Interview with Kareem Ahmed Sheik- Cofounder and Chairman of Crivly.

Kareem Ahmed Sheik is a masters student in computer science, an Entrepreneur and a freelancer. City where you’re from: I’m from Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh,India. Hobbies: Watching anime(One piece, naruto etc), Playing chess Favorite quote: You must be the change you wish to see in the world- Mahatma Gandhi Twitter: @md_crivly Why did you decide to become

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YCombinator Alumni Mihir Deo is Turning Salespeople Into Superheros

Mihir Deo is the co-founder and COO of the YCombinator backed company Elucify. Elucify is a free and crowdsourced database of business contact information meant as a free resource for salespeople. He previously was an early salesperson at Dropbox and graduated from the University of California-Berkeley. City where you’re from: San Jose Hobbies: Fitness, Cricket, 49ers

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Mike Craddock; “I had £3.64 in my Bank Account, with Nothing Particularly To Lose”

City where you’re from:  Nottingham Hobbies: Football, Business, Content, Social Media, Travelling, Activities Favorite quote: Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard Twitter: https://twitter.com/FearCrads Background Why did you decide to become an entrepreneur? I had £3.64 in my bank account, with nothing particularly to lose. If the company failed, I’ve have £0 instead.

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Jeremy Miller is Not Your Average 18 Year Old

At the age of 7 Jeremy was already in the process of patenting two inventions. His parents did not have the time or money to carry out that process. Jeremy and his parents did not know where to go so the patents did not go through.There wasn’t a “Shark Tank” in 2009. In 2015 Jeremy

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Emerging Shark Joel Contartese Shares His Secret To Success

Hey Joel, where are you from? I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I moved to Miami, FL in 2000 when I was 9 years old. I have since had the pleasure of living in New York and now residing in Los Angeles. What are some of your hobbies? I like Networking, Learning, Creating. I love

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Chelann Gienger: From High School Student To Business Owner In Three Days

At 20 years-old, Chelann Gienger is a serial entrepreneur focusing her ventures on inspiring and empowering others to chase their dreams and goals in life. Two weeks before graduating with her AA in college, Chelann opened NUYU Juice Bar along with 3 other partners at the age of 18. Under a year later, she launched

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Trevor Oldham is Becoming the Lion and Motivating Millions of People Every Day

Trevor Oldham is a 20-year-old entrepreneur who’s had eleutheromania ever since he can remember. Trevor is the co-founder at Become The Lion. He’s been a contributor for Addicted2Success, Influencive, and The Daily Positive. Trevor’s on a mission to influence millennial’s to take charge of their life and achieve the desired freedom in their life.

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Meet Bhupinder Nayyar the Founder of the Popular Site Bameslog

Bhupinder Nayyar, co-founder and COO of free publishing website Bameslog. Catch him on Instagram and LinkedIn for heaps of helpful material on Entrepreneurship, marketing, and productivity. City where you’re from: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. Currently in: Bangalore Hobbies: Reading, writing, meditating, long walks, journaling.   Favorite quote: “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas

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Strategy Expert Kyle Brost Shares The Three Keys to Thinking Strategically

Kyle Brost is a Founder and Principal Consultant at Choice Strategy Partners, a firm specializing in strategic thinking. At Choice Strategy Partners they take organizational strategy to the next level by facilitating the strategic planning process and then developing strategic thinking skills in the organization through training and coaching. He is also the CEO of

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How Juan Patron, A Young Entrepreneur, Is Innovating Miami Businesses

Juan Patron is one of our generation’s leading business innovators.  Assisting in making your ideas come to life, Juan Patron desires to take you and your business to new heights. Through innovative marketing strategies, Juan Patron will propel your company into a variety of markets nationally and internationally. Early life At an early age of twelve,

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Abtin Masseratagah: The Digital Pioneer with 25 Million Daily Impressions

Abtin Masseratagah was one of the original influencers and creators that learned to leverage social media to control what everyone is viewing, with campaigns as large as 25MM impressions per day. City where you’re from: Born and raised in Toronto, Canada Hobbies: Weight lifting, Film, Hamburger Enthusiast Favorite quote: “Loyalty is a two-way street. If

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Shikhar Srivastava: The Builder of Brands! #SAVAGE

Shikhar is a Satirist, Science Communicator, Sci-tech Blogger, Sonneteer, Rationalist, and Futurist. Having so many projects going on at the same time, Shikhar Srivastava is hard to keep track of. In this interview, we talked about the importance of reading and where to find skilled people to get your projects done.  Where are you from? I am

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Austin Vaday: An Inspirer, Motivator, and Visionary

When I first met Austin Vaday a few years ago, it instantly struck me how passionate and dedicated to his projects he was. Austin studies Computer Science at UCLA and is currently building Aquaint, a social network that lets you seamlessly find other people’s social media profiles in one place, by making one profile with

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Jeremy Slate – Create Your Own Life

Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to.  He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using Online social networking to build an offline relationship and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy. It is because of Jeremy’s

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Richard Lorenzen of Fifth Avenue Brands, a Truly Inspiring Story

Richard Lorenzen is a one of the top millennial entrepreneurs and investors in America. He’s the founder and CEO of Fifth Avenue Brands, a public relations firm in New York City. He was ranked by both Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 50 most inspiring entrepreneurs. Richard is also the author of

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Josh Steimle: Speaker, Writer and BAUS entrepreneur

Uhmm where do I begin… Put simply, Josh Steimle is a straight BAUS.  As a writer, speaker and businessman, Josh is a relentless entrepreneur that has written over 200 articles for Time, Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur, among others. He is also the author of of Chief Marketing Officers at Work, which contains interviews and insights from

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How Harry’s (A Shaving Brand) Gathered over 100K Emails in 1 Week

Harry’s, a subscription-based model for grooming products went viral with a very clever campaign. Here’s how they did it. Specifically this post will explain how they gathered nearly 100,000 email addresses in one week (!).  This post includes all the email templates, open-source code, and insider tricks that you can use to replicate their success.  It’s similar

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