🚀 Here are my best finds for a Tech Smart Boss this week - Issue #75

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April 7 · Issue #75 · View online

Being an #entrepreneur means you decide to leave the rat race and join a rat triathlon (plus you have to carry a team of rats on your back as you compete) 🐀 🏃 #Entrepreneurship #StartUp

7:17 AM - 5 Apr 2018

New Videos from Tech Smart Boss

How to Transform Your Internal Team Support with Spoke (Your Team Support Bot)

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When you’re small and growing, it’s critical to focus on external, customer support, but for your internal team, you’re like, “they’ll figure it out.” While …

New Podcast from Tech Smart Boss

Episode 70: The Content Marketing Tech Stack for a Tech Smart Boss

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Stream Episode 70: The Content Marketing Tech Stack for a Tech Smart Boss by Tech Smart Boss from desktop or your mobile device

Top Articles of the Week

Don't Even Try Managing a Remote Team Without These Tools

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From onboarding to ongoing training and password management, these apps keep workers connected so you can focus on the bigger picture.

22 Customer Retention Strategies that Work

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Customer retention rate is how well a company keeps its paying customers over a period of time. Retaining customers costs less than acquiring them, and both add to your company’s bottom line.

Social Listening: How to Increase Conversions Using Social Media Insights

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Learn how to use social listening to increase your conversions. Social media insights can inform your optimization strategy and help you grow

How Many SaaS Software Subscriptions Does A Founder Need?

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The challenge in your ‘hurry up and wait for revenue’ stage is not spending revenue before it comes in by subscribing to software you don’t need.

Content Strategy for Startups: The Complete Guide – UX Planet

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Working as a Content Strategist for startups and enterprises, I’ve seen first hand the types of problems that bad content creates. I’ll spare you the horror stories, but the takeaway is that tons of…

Cool Tech of the Week

We’ve talked about Cloudflare a couple of times on our YouTube channel (here’s our video on setting up SSL for free using Cloudflare). This week they came out with another great free resource to help speed up your Internet browsing with their speedy DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 (learn more about that here)

They do more than SSL and DNS. From helping prevent denial of service attacks (DDoS) to speeding up your page loads via their Content Distribution Network (CDN) and a lot more. I’ve only used their free services in the past (which have been plenty) but they offer a variety of paid plans with enhanced features as well.

If you have a website that you want to keep safe and performing fast (and I know you do) then check out Cloudflare.

Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare

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Here at Cloudflare, we make the Internet work the way it should. Offering CDN, DNS, DDoS protection and security, find out how we can help your site.

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