Research shows customers are increasingly fickle. And as companies grow, founders tend to forget that.

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Source:: Entrepreneur

The Labor Department releases its broadest look at the U.S. job market for March on Friday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect employers added 178,000 jobs during the month and see the unemployment rate ticking down to 4.0%. Here are five thing to watch in the report.
1. A fresh low
Economists project the jobless rate will fall to 4% for the first time since 2000. (They expected it to happen in February, too, but the rate held at 4.1% for the fifth straight month.) An unemployment rate of 4% or less is extremely rare in the past 70 Read More

Source:: wsj

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In today’s issue, the U.S. and China’s warning shots on trade set up months of negotiations, the U.S. trade deficit is expected to widen, unemployment is poised to hit a 17-year low, lower- and middle-income families are abandoning prosperous cities, and Washington targets tech companies.
NOW THE HARD PART
Get ready for more market volatility. The Trump administration’s tariff tit-for-tat with Beijing sets up a high-stakes standoff between the world’s two largest economies.
Over the next half year or so, the combatants will seek to Read More

Source:: wsj

Texting is the preferred method of communication for most people, so why not use it for recruiting?
If you want to reach millennials, your best bet is to send a text. In a study by the enterprise mobile engagement firm OpenMarket, 75% of millennials would prefer texting over talking if given the choice of one format. Texts are “more convenient” and “less disruptive than a voice call,” the survey found. That’s probably why texting as a recruiting method is becoming more popular, especially for companies that target millennials and generation Z.

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Source:: Fast Company

Stop trying to cram so much stuff into your short-term memory, which isn’t built for long-term storage.
How many times a day do you run through your mental to-do list and convince yourself there’s no way you’ll forget that important presentation that’s due next Thursday, or that great idea for a new project–only to realize later that it totally slipped your mind and now is gone for good?

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Source:: Fast Company