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Welcome to the new world of business travel

IT World

The COVID-19 pandemic crushed the business travel industry, hammering trade shows, hotels, airlines, and other services. As a result, business travel is coming back. Travel management company TripActions says business travel bookings for the first quarter of this year exceeded all bookings for the entire previous year.

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Microsoft's Billion Dollar AI Business

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. All of that usage is creating a massive business. Coding assistance has been the first, but shopping & travel could be next through OpenAI’s plug-ins. 1 percentage point of growth on a $28.5b

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How to Use Google Trends in Marketing

Neil Patel

One great way to figure out what is popular is with Google Trends. This tool identifies current and existing trends in search marketing. This article will help you understand how to use Google Trends and the specific steps you can take to maximize your efforts. What Is Google Trends? In comes Google Trends.

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The 8 Biggest SaaS Trends of 2020

SaaSX

In 2020, your data has never been safer or easier to use, emerging trends have never been more exciting, and we’ve never been more connected to the people around us. Here are the 8 biggest SaaS trends of 2020. Many of 2020’s trends thus far have been heavily influenced by developments in related industries.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

Let’s time travel back, just 20 years ago, to the shopping mall. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone. So how can you adopt mobile payments for your business, and how can you benefit from these payment services?

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Filming Your Own ‘Stock Footage’ Will Help You Create More Content, Faster

Buffer Resources

It’s a simple, thought-provoking quote or statement in line with the text-over-simple-clip trend on Instagram and TikTok.  Within a few days of filming random clips, I had the perfect opportunity to use some of them when I stumbled upon a trending TikTok audio : @itsmekirsti I started doing it for my physical health.

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Four key relationships that define the journey from startup to billion-dollar business

SaaStr

The topic was: the journey from idea to billion-dollar business. For leaders nurturing a startup or scaling a business to the next level, Vlad had one central piece of advice: Embrace change. The ability to adapt quickly is critical to business success at every stage of the growth journey. Advisory Board.

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