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After being fired from McDonald’s as a teenager, Bruce Poon Tip decided that, to succeed in life, he would need to be self-employed. So, in 1990 he maxed-out his credit cards and started G Adventures, which he has since nurtured into the largest adventure travel company in the world, operating in more than 100 countries on all seven continents and serving more than 100,000 customers every year. In hi new book, LoopTail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Busines, Bruce recounts how entrepreneurship became his own adventure and gave him the opportunity to reimagine how business is done so it would provide the same sense of fulfillment as a backpack hike through the Himalayas. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced that four new apps have been added to its App Directory, including two of the most popular user requested apps for Gmail and ViralTag for Pinterest to its . The social relationship platform now boasts 65 social networks and tools used by today’s social business. ViralTag brings Pinterest functionality into the HootSuite dashboard, while the Gmail app makes monitoring email alongside real-time social streams easy. The latest release also includes apps video success platform Vidcaster, and selling tool Shopseen. Social media practitioners no longer have to leave the HootSuite dashboard to access their popular social tools, increasing productivity and efficiency. Read the rest of this entry »