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Everyone from video marketers to Hollywood producers uses Soundsnap.Free Book Preview No BS Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing The ultimate guide to – producing measurable, monetizable results with social media marketing. July 28, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. According to a Hubspot study, 54 percent of people want to see more video content from their favorite brands. That likely explains why…

In October 2008, the Royal Barrière Hotel in Deauville, France, was the backdrop for the annual conference of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. I’d attended the conference before and had found it earnest and sedate, in keeping with the luxurious but faux-historic venue (the original hotel having been bombed to rubble during World War II). But in 2008 — one month almost to the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers — rebellion stirred the air. Participants were abuzz with outrage at events that had gathered momentum in the previous months and then, with remarkable speed, led…

Markets regulator Sebi has streamlined settlement regulations to make procedures faster and more effective. In order to save time,Sebi said instead of issuing settlement notice under the regulations, a paragraph will be included in the show cause notice informing the noticee about the option to file a settlement application. Sebi has amended settlement regulations to implement the changes, the regulator said in a notification dated July 22. In addition, amendments have been made to the settlement regulations to include promoters along with the Principal Officer for the purpose of…

July 27, 2020 7 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I’m not going to get into the politics of TikTok operating as a foreign company on U.S. soil. Millions of Americans, and billions around the globe, are using it’s platform, and if you are an entrepreneur, you should know how to use TikTok or have someone on your team that can manage it for you. The ad platform is not very different from Facebook’s, with a few twists. I’ll share what signing up was like for me and how you can get up to $2,300 in…

Markets regulator Sebi has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore on CARE Ratings in connection with lapses in assigning credit rating to non-convertible debentures of Reliance Communications (RCom). The case relates to default committed by RCom on the repayment of principal amount of Rs 375 crore and interest of Rs 9.7 crore due in February 2017 and March 2017, respectively. In May 2017, CARE Ratings downgraded the ratings assigned to non-convertible debentures (NCDs) issued by RCom to default. Sebi found that CARE Ratings had failed to monitor the…

Recessions are temporary, but how you use your time now can pay off well into the future.Free Book Preview No BS Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing The ultimate guide to – producing measurable, monetizable results with social media marketing. July 22, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The Great Recession of 2007-2009 was one of the most difficult periods of my life, but I got through it, learned some valuable lessons, and eventually emerged in a much better place as an entrepreneur. Now, even though the coronavirus pandemic is causing both…

After suspending ‘options on futures’ contracts, the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has decided to launch ‘options on goods’ contracts in certain farm commodities on Monday. Earlier, options were devolving into futures and settlement was at a fixed price. Now Sebi allows direct settlements in options, under which the farmer will benefir from price volatility. Available in three commodities, namely, rapeseed/mustard seed, maize and wheat to begin with, these contracts would allow both, farmers and other participants in the value chain such as aggregators, farmers producers organisations (FPOs) and farmers producers companies (FPCs) to hedge…

July 24, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We live in a time when a brand’s ability to reach its customers online has never been more important. The same is true of individual entrepreneurs, influencers and others. This is where live streaming video comes in. While the popularity of YouTube has long proven video’s importance in the online world, live video’s surge is relatively recent, and is still often overlooked by marketers. A report from IAB found that by the end of 2018, 67 percent of internet users had streamed live videos, with 47…