When Charlie Jabaley, co-founder of the artist management and marketing firm Street Execs, released one of his first client t-shirt designs, the euphoric high he felt in the morning plummeted to a heartbreaking low by night.
He had only sold a total of eight t-shirts.
One of the first concerns your new business is likely to face is pay period — should you pay your employees weekly? Biweekly? Monthly?
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Editor’s note: This is the final post in a series on the HubSpot Customer Code.
I haven’t decided yet if this is the final tenet in The Customer Code or the “platform” that supports the entire Code. But I think it’s the most important of all — do the right thing, even when it’s hard … especially when it’s hard.
In 2009, the domain Fly.com was sold for $1.76 million. Even though this domain seems like it would be highly sought after, the asking price still seems a little steep. But Fly.com attracts over a million unique visits per month, justifying its million dollar cost and illustrating just how important it is to have a domain that reflects your business’ name and what you actually do.
Welcome to The Science Behind Success — a new blog series that explores the best ways to help our brains perform better at work. With psychological research and interviews with leaders in the field, we’re showing you how psychology can help you overcome workplace obstacles and excel in your career. Because a little mindset change could go a long way.
We all know the usual suspects: Craigslist. Monster. Career Builder. Newspapers (half-kidding on that one).
Or perhaps you’re more of a networking kind of person when looking or hiring for a job: frequenting marketing events to get some face time with heavy hitters who might want you to join their teams. Marketers — or anyone — looking for work have probably spent time in all of these places at one time or another.
This time last year, we put a stake in the ground by announcing that HubSpot was building a centralized platform.
We believe the world has changed. We see businesses using more kinds of software, not less, that all needs to work together.
When Orbit Media Studios decided to research how business bloggers go about doing their thing in 2014, it wasn’t intended to be a one-and-done project. The mission was — and still is — to track how business blogging evolves.
Online shopping — we all do it. Heck, it’s arguably the greatest thing since sliced bread. (Did you know you can shop online for that, too? Crazy.)
After writing The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway famously said his novel was “the best I can write ever for all of my life.” To a certain extent, he was right. The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was specifically cited when Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature the following year. Sadly, he never published a major work of fiction again.
