Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.
For many Native entrepreneurs, it’s not active discrimination that proves the biggest issue in getting a business off the ground. In fact, per a recent Breaking the Blueprint HubSpot Blog survey, many Natives don’t feel like their heritage figures one way or the other into their entrepreneurship challenges.
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Learn why hiring a community architect is essential, creative strategies for improving team productivity, and how to transform your organization’s culture.
Whether it's writing a blog post, designing an infographic, or creating an ebook, starting a new piece of content from scratch can be a challenge, especially if you've never done it before.
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Learn how to use AI in brand tracking for faster, cost-effective insights to measure brand performance, customer loyalty, and market positioning.
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As part of The Drum’s Fashion & Beauty Focus, Zalando’s marketing and content chief sets out the retailer’s stall for the next five years and beyond.
Google updates guidance on Product markup, advising ecommerce sites to prioritize HTML implementation and use JavaScript cautiously.
Learn how event organizers can use relationship cultivation strategies to transform events into hubs of genuine connections for personal and business growth.
With this new use of CGI, we can make our wildest OOH campaign dreams come true without having to worry about feasibility and implementing it in real life.
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Welcome to Trends, a weekly newsletter with the zestiest business trends and actionable insights for entrepreneurs.
• Open communication and collaboration are critical to success. You and your clients both need to be proactive in sharing insights, providing regular updates and not holding back data—in a data...
Discover the first 5 steps for starting a business over. Gain insights from entrepreneur Jenna Kutcher to make the most of the journey.
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When our video team cut all external distribution, it boosted YouTube views by 400%. Learn why it worked and when you should consider it for yourself.
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