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Narrowcasting versus Broadcasting
You can grow your business and community best when you know how to use technology. That’s why my brother and I started 9 Clouds. When using technology, there are two ways to share ideas: as a broadcast...
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183 Resources for City Builders
Resources to Build Your City As you may know from reading our Digital Homesteading blog, 9 Clouds believes that you can build your business and community best when you know how to use digital...
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6 Steps to Change Your Facebook Page’s Name
Businesses grow and change, and often the name changes with it. Now you can change your Facebook page’s name and URL as you grow or acquire older businesses. Limits to Changing Your Facebook Page Name...
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Build Bridges Between Diverse Communities…and Be Weird
“Weird” people matter, to our businesses and to our communities. Weird People Matter Diversity creates better workplaces and more profitable businesses. Diversity inspires creative thinking. Diversity...
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4 Steps to Add Social Media Links to Google Results
Google for Social Media Traffic Google has long been the largest source of traffic for most websites. Starting now, Google can also drive traffic to your social media profiles. Thanks to their updated...
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What is Marketing Automation?
Marketing automation is software that sends the right message, to the right people, in the right place at the right time. A fancy way to say it is: marketing automation sends multi-channel,...
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Change your community with a book study
Entrepreneurs must lead a community and need mentors to succeed. That was the takeaway from a four-week book study with community leaders in my hometown. This simple exercise had the greatest output of...
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How Marketing Automation Improves Sales
There are two ways to increase sales: attract more leads or close a higher percentage of leads. Marketing automation helps you do both. Marketing Automation as a Sales Tool At its core, marketing...
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4 Trends Changing How We Live and Work
The way we live and work is quickly changing. Increasingly, creativity is required to compete. Learn to attract creativity to your business or community in today’s article. Four Trends Affecting...
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Cinderella’s Unfair Advantage
When no one is looking or expectations are low, it is the best time to take big risks. As entrepreneurs and community leaders, we need to learn from the Cinderella teams in March Madness and...
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The Difference Between Business and Community
The best businesses provide a tiny group of people exactly what they want. The best communities provide a large group of people as much of what they want as possible. Identify whether you are a...
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Timing is Everything: Connect with Customers Using Marketing Automation
In 1931, Nebraska pharmacist Ted Hustead was looking for a place to start his business. His requirements were simple: a small town with a Catholic church. He searched north to the middle of the dry,...
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A Business Manifesto: Stand Out, Stand Up in a Noisy Digital World
Plant your flag and proclaim what your business believes. Stand out with this rebellious act, attract customers, retain talent and live up to your beliefs. Discover and share your beliefs by creating a...
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How to Be Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors and inspiration for the movie version of Iron Man (Tony Stark), just announced that a new generation of batteries will be available to store solar power in your...
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It’s Not What We Do, It’s Who We Inspire
Leaders often focus on how best to lead. Their thoughts and energies put into saying the perfect thing, creating the perfect business plan or making the best decision. This is not what being a leader...
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Fight Snackification
There is a “snackification” happening all around us. The information we share online is shortened into snack-sized bites as attention spans shrink. Increasingly, we are encouraged to write quick...
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Saving North Dakota with the Enchanted Highway
Can the world’s largest metal sculptures save a rural North Dakota town? That’s what Gary Greff believes. He is building the Enchanted Highway to save his town of Regent, N.D., population 125…and it...
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The Revolutionary Insight of Children
A new baby is on the way, any day now. I can’t wait to meet him or her. I say meet very intentionally. The desire to know who they are and what they are like is a feeling I didn’t expect with our first...
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Punch Your Email Inbox in the Face
Remember when you controlled your inbox? You would receive an email from a newsletter you actually remember signing up for or get that occasional email from the handful of friends who used Hotmail....
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How to Pay Millennials: Interest-based Compensation
I love that I founded a company full of millennials. Sure, they make me feel like the old man who still remembers Reebok Pumps and Gremlins, but they also force our company to look at meaning in...
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