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September 10, 2020 8 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This article was written by Alex Sixt, a member of the Entrepreneur NEXT powered by Assemble content team. Entrepreneur NEXT is our Expert solutions division leading the future of work and skills-based economy. If you’re struggling to find, vet, and hire the right Experts for your business, Entrepreneur NEXT is a platform to help you hire the experts you need, exactly when you need them. From business to marketing, sales, design, finance, and technology, we have the top 3 percent of Experts ready to work for…

Do not open Philip Roth’s American Pastoral for lessons about business. That would be like opening a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild to quench your thirst. A tragedy of classical proportions about a profoundly decent businessman, this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel concerns itself with the durability of faith, the cost of dreams, and our inability to abolish our own vulnerability. These themes are embodied in characters as vivid as relatives, all of them enacting America’s wrenching history in the second half of the 20th century. In American Pastoral, in other words, Roth — one of the great novelists of the past…

Indian shares rose on Thursday for the first time in three days, boosted by a jump in the shares of Reliance Industries (RIL), India’s most valuable company, on reports that e-commerce giant Amazon was looking to acquire a stake in the firm’s retail arm. Added to this was a sharp rally in the US markets on Wednesday, which sent stock markets across Asia higher as risk appetite got a boost. The benchmark Sensex closed at 38,840, up 646 points or 1.7 per cent. While the Nifty rose 171 points, or 1.5…

Here’s how you can better use video on you site.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing This book takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses. September 9, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Today, people spend an average of 16 hours a week watching online videos, and 84 percent of them have been convinced to buy a product or service by watching the video. YouTube says that 70 percent of video consumption is happening on mobile devices. That’s a lot of videos being consumed every day. …

Non-life insurers, which include general insurers, standalone health insurers and specialised PSU insurers, have seen a 10.38 per cent growth in premiums in August. They have amassed premiums to the tune of Rs 17,623.25 crore in August compared to Rs 15,964.74 crore in the same period a year ago. General insurers — 25 in total — have seen their premium collection go up 5.57 per cent in August 2020 to Rs 13,139.63 crore, compared to Rs 12,445.83 crore in the same period a year ago. State-owned general insurers saw…

Markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday decided to implement system-driven disclosures for members of promoter group, directors and designated persons of a listed company. To begin with, the system-driven disclosures will pertain to trading in equity shares and equity derivative instruments — futures and options — of the listed company by such entities, Sebi said in a circular. The system-driven disclosures in the securities market were first introduced in December 2015 and are being implemented in a phased manner. “It has now been decided to implement the system-driven disclosures for…

September 8, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Convincing buyers to open their purse strings for your product is the goal of any business. To that end, many entrepreneurs spend their early years obsessed with their product, working to ensure nothing on the market compares. Regardless of intent, spending the bulk of your energy on the product is a dangerous mistake.  A savvy entrepreneur should always focus on the number-one part of any business — customers.  Related: Why Customer-centricity Wins Out Every Time Although most entrepreneurs think they are in love with their customers,…

Bureaucracy provides the structure and support new ideas need to take hold in large organizations. But once an idea is successfully implemented, the same bureaucracy can become the agent of its ossification. What’s a leader to do?…