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How quitting email helped my company communicate better

Nov09
by on November 9, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Max Nalsky is the founder and CEO of Pyrus, the workplace communication platform. We operate in a world of inboxes. Everyone has his or her collection of points where other people can touch them — email, Facebook, Twitter, Skype – the list goes on. It’s easily overwhelming, and we are cursed with options when it comes to communicating with people nowadays. We can’t get rid of these various means of interaction, and we can’t even choose just one. But we can choose a default that we pay the most attention to. For most, this default inbox is email. After all, email…

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How to hire a Web designer or design company

Nov08
by on November 8, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, Insider

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Paul Jarvis is a best-selling author and designer. He writes weekly for his popular newsletter and runs an online course on becoming a better freelancer. Hiring a Web designer or design company can seem like a daunting task. Too many speak in nerd and the good ones never seem available to take on new work. I realize that maybe your cousin is a Web designer who builds websites on the side. Or your friend’s brother in college once updated your Tumblr in exchange for a case of beer. Or that you can, quite easily, figure out Web design, programming and WordPress yourself,…

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How sound impacts your spending: An interview with author Tyler Gray

Nov08
by on November 8, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Profiles and Interviews

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Danny Groner is the manager of blogger partnerships and outreach for Shutterstock. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Did you ever stop to consider how what you hear influences how you spend? That’s a topic that writers Joel Beckerman and Tyler Gray tackle in their new book, The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy. Extremely intrigued, we followed up with co-author Gray to talk more about the book, its principles, and what they mean for modern brands, both big and small. Shutterstock: This book promises…

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