Not exact matches
The same way a
creative advertisement or guerrilla marketing campaign (
which should
be part of the entrepreneurial arsenal, even though the lion's share of budget should go toward direct response advertising that has trackable results)
is meant to get your attention, so too
is the initial schmooze with a prospect supposed to
be worthy of the attention they have given you — exciting them at the possibilities you have shown them, and delivered in an educational and entertaining way that leaves them fascinated and wanting more.
The group of inspirational judges includes Aaron Firestein and Raaja Nemani, co-founders of BucketFeet
which produces shoes designed by artists from around the world; Lance Rios, founder of Hispanic communication platform
Being Latino; Roberto Torres, Luis Montanez and Chris Findeisen, creators of made - in - America apparel brand Black & Denim; Sulaiman Sanni and Ben Lamson, creators of the crowd - funding website WeDidIt; and Marve Frazier, CEO of premier destination website for African American popular culture and entertainment Bossip.com and Chief
Creative Officer of Moguldom Media Group.
«I love reading fantasy novels for their
creative insights into alternative ways in
which human societies and even interpersonal interactions can
be structured.
«General Mills» decision to draw attention to the issue of declining bee populations marks the continuation of its commitment to purpose - based marketing,
which means brands will go beyond traditional statements such as product benefit in order to align with what
's really important to consumers,» Cossette chief
creative officer Peter Ignazi told AdWeek.
Roberta Matuson, a Boston - based business consultant and author of the 2013 book Talent Magnetism, says small firms need not
be bound to rigid formal HR processes,
which creates the opportunity for more
creative hiring practices.
There can
be various options for building the brand such as
creative offline marketing, proper usage of social media, publishing magazine, customized online presence and interaction with customers through blogs etc.
which can
be helpful to promote their brand.
The courses at Flatiron (
which is actually located in the New York's Financial District, after growing out of its small original space on East 26th Street)
are designed to teach a full range of technical and
creative - thinking skills in either iOS app development, or the programming language Ruby on Rails.
Murphy's business,
which provides accounting services for
creative businesses, such as architecture and film production companies, has
been around for 11 years.
Now, many big chains
are developing
creative ways to capture a market that has rejected them, and franchises,
which usually have local ownership,
are starting to play up the neighborhood and community aspects of their stores.
Be creative in your approach to regular tasks and try a couple courses of action before deciding
which works best.
Lyft's
creative director, Jesse McMillin, who
was formerly at Virgin, played a big role in the launch of the new logo,
which is aimed at helping give the company's brand a more sophisticated look.
Which makes one wonder: What
is occurring in his brain during that half hour of luminously
creative thinking?
I
'm doing this through the d.school, IDEO, and a book that I
'm writing with my brother [Tom Kelley, a partner at IDEO] called
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the
Creative Potential Within Us All,
which will
be published this October.
While there
is a «magic factor» to getting a cover story in the New York Times or Forbes —
which can change the trajectory of a business and
is hard to quantify in terms of exact impact — PR professionals can and must think of
creative ways to measure outcomes in a more quantitative way.
It looks at five «input» categories: institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, market sophistication and business sophistication, and «outputs,»
which are categorized as either knowledge and technology or
creative outputs.
SS:
Being an entrepreneur,
which I'd like to believe I
am, requires a systematic and analytic approach to yourself, but it also requires a
creative approach to yourself.
Fan Funding The most popular type of customer financing
is probably fan funding,
which involves websites like Kickstarter soliciting donations to finance
creative projects.
Having a comfortable and
creative environment in
which to work
is important, but more important
is providing the right utilities, specifically high - speed Internet, to your users.
Well, at least according to a 2009 report on the
creative economy by Otis College of Art and Design,
which found that one out of every six people in the region
is employed in a
creative field.
The Kid President YouTube channel has
been picked up by the
creative media channel SoulPancake,
which has 930,000 followers, and has given the web series a traffic boost.
Copyright applies to
creative works such as books and movies (and this column), but also to software,
which at its core
is another form of writing, albeit in code.
It
's also an example of the
creative lengths to
which blockchain companies
are going in order to stay in - bounds of a threatened crackdown by the U.S. Securities or Exchange Commission on initial coin offerings, or ICOs.
Youth arts group Awesome Arts
is the big winner in this year's
Creative Partnerships Australia awards,
which recognises collaborations between business and the arts.
Co-work places around the country
are widely known for
being very contemporary, stylish and even artisan,
which together create wildly
creative and energetic environments.
Churchill has also
been quite intentional about the company's values,
which are: confident,
creative, and cool.
It
's also one of the only platforms in
which you can draw
creative on top of the video, making for some awesome Snapchat exclusive artists like Shonduras.
By building a Lego version of herself and providing «instructions,»
which was really a list of her top skills and qualifications, the redditor by the name «Leah» showed her
creative side to the advertising agency internship position she
was applying for.
I played to my skill sets,
which were more
creative than analytical in nature.»
«Our company
is mid-level in size but has a startup feel with essentially no red tape,
which makes it very easy to apply new ideas and
creative thinking to solve problems.
Smaller financial technology companies can
be flexible in crafting
creative solutions to serve customers on the margins, said Lisa McFarland, an executive vice president at Ingo Money,
which charges between 1 and 4 percent to deposit paychecks through a mobile app.
This
is a process that activates and
is facilitated by abstraction,
which in turn promotes
creative thinking,» Harvard's Francesca Gino, who participated in the study, explained in the Harvard Gazette.
Delineate the strategic, financial, technical and
creative skills you have, and
which ones you
're missing.
I would recommend it to anyone struggling with the process of
creative innovation —
which these days
is just about everyone in business.
An example
is Air New Zealand and «Lord of the Rings and «The Hobbit» movies,
which have showcase not only
creative and fantastic liveries and safety videos, but also stimulated tourism in New Zealand and raised their brand awareness.
«The discipline involved in finishing a piece of
creative work
is something on
which you can truly pride yourself.»
This concept,
which is known as the Broaden and Build Theory, makes it easier for us to make
creative connections between ideas.
As indicated by this chart from Statista —
which is based on a recent survey of US consumers conducted by
Creative Strategies and SurveyMonkey — it
's already heading in the right direction.
Higher education
is about encouraging innovative thinking and
creative problem solving,
which are essential to realizing a successful entrepreneurial venture.
In that manner, I
'm fond of Inkod,
which goes by the philosophy that
creative and original UX approaches
are what make innovative technologies stand out.
By sharing the stages she goes through — and
which she feels
are a pretty universal to
creative projects — she hopes to inspire others to stick with their own
creative endeavors through all the inevitable rough patches.
The first step to begin a
creative business approach
is to think less about what your business should do, and more about
which industry problems need to
be solved.
So I wasn't really the
creative vision for one show — where I had hands on everything,
which is more my personality to
be honest — but I would have to shift into more of a managerial role.
Even if regulators approve the combo,
which is an open question, AT&T will have to bet that owning
creative content
is better than just providing the pipes and towers that get it to customers.
The store,
which is called The Apartment by The Line,
was created and carefully curated by the team behind Assembled Brands: founder and CEO Adam Pritzker and
Creative Director Vanessa Traina.
Denise Daniels claims that, in 2005, she brought together a
creative team and produced a pilot for a show titled The Moodsters,
which was intended to help children understand their emotions through representing them as five different characters: happiness, sadness, anger, love, and fear.
In a much - discussed blog post, co-founder and chief
creative officer Evan Sharp recently detailed the company's plan,
which includes mandating that at least one woman and one person from an underrepresented background
be interviewed for every leadership position.
Tom Drennen, a
creative director based in Detroit,
is launching an organization meant to inspire
creatives to come together to reclaim their doodles and submit them to Doodlegooder,
which will deliver them to children who need a little joy.
But even more important than the letter's content
is the distinct and
creative way in
which Buffett communicates his message.
And, although the debate continues to rage as to
which startup skills can
be taught, it
's very clear that a great deal can
be learned by new business builders who immerse themselves in the critical and
creative entrepreneurial mass that an incubator like 1871 provides.
This demands on - the - spot
creative thinking —
which should
be an oxymoron, but entrepreneurs rarely have the luxury of time.