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Digital marketing agency, Brainlabs, has acquired Manchester-based User Conversion for an undisclosed sum.

Top 15 Serial Entrepreneurs In The World T op 15 Serial Entrepreneurs in the World. Click to skip ahead and jump to the Top 5 Serial Entrepreneurs in the World. Serial entrepreneurs start new companies, make them successful, and sell them to move on to their next startup. Serial entrepreneurship is on the rise in the U.S. Success stories of figures like Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Square founder Jim McKelvey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia, 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki a...

2020 was a horrific year in many ways. The COVID-19 pandemic led to over 400,000 deaths in the U.S., over 22 million people lost their jobs, and the U.S. economy lost billions of dollars. Meanwhile, a new administration was sworn in on Jan. 20, faced with three major crises. The new president must deal with 1) the raging pandemic, 2) the economic problems due to so many Americans being out of work, and 3) the newest crisis that became painfully apparent on Jan. 6 — the insurrection on the ...

Challenges Beat Resolutions—Every Day of the Week Set yourself a task with a clear completion, however small, and start your streak As a young comedian, Jerry Seinfeld hung a big calendar on his wall. He began writing jokes every day. After he wrote, he put a big red X over that day. According to Seinfeld: “After a few days you’ll have a chain… Your only job is to not break the chain.” Seinfeld didn’t resolve to become a great comedian. He challenged himself to write every day. See ...

Have you found your mind wandering during lockdown? Credit: Rick Gomez/ Corbis As the rules keep changing, and the news grows more jaw-dropping, our ability to remain focused on daily activities – on almost anything else – feels more and more elusive. In some ways that’s not surprising. In 2010 Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert at Harvard developed a phone app that asked 2,250 users to record what they were thinking and feeling, as well as what they were doing, at random times thro...

Move over Jeff Bezos, there’s a new richest person in the world. On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is seeking to transform transportation in Las Vegas, officially took over that title. Elon Musk, seen here arriving at a New York federal court in April 2019, has recently become the world’s wealthiest person. He soon may add to that wealth, thanks to projects taking place in Las Vegas. (Image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Forbes tracks that in real-time on its web site. As of 10 pm ET Satur...

Ditch the Resolutions and Challenge Yourself Instead By Jay Harrington When you challenge yourself, you declare that you “will” do something — there’s no wiggle room. Research shows that over 80% of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions by the second week of February. I know that may not be surprising news — we all struggle to uphold the promises we make to ourselves. Here’s the good news: There’s a better way to become a more successful version of yourself. Challenge Yo...

Planning for a Better 2021 While even the most pessimistic among us are looking to a year that will be (almost, must be?) better than 2020, the operating environment continues as one full of questions and apprehension. How much will 2021 look like the last three quarters of 2020? Will economic conditions begin to rebound by the end of the first quarter? The second quarter? By mid-year? Longer? Major business segments, particularly those reliant on travel, transit, hospitality, and lei...

December 14th 2020 23:14 From the increased prominence of digital and programmatic to an emphasis on advertising flexibility, resilience and agility, here are some themes that our experts believe will define advertising in 2021. After a turbulent year that saw almost all predictions for the advertising industry thrown out of the window during the earliest months of the pandemic, we’re turning our sights to 2021 and what lies ahead. Despite initial setbacks in the first half of the year as t...

now, with a book signings coming up with me and john allison and the laissez-faire youth right after here. we want you all to come. i waited to buy a copy of the book, get it signed and i promise i will accuse menefee was stalking me. [laughter] [applause] thank you very, very much. [applause] >> this event was part of freedom fest, a libertarian conference held annually in las vegas. to find out more visit freedom fest.com. >> now, more from freedom fest 2011. todd buchholz, author of...