Together For Safer Roads Launches Accelerator

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Our client Together For Safer Roads has announced its third annual Global Entrepreneur Program, a unique accelerator focused on early stage startups in transportation and road safety.

The 2020 Program is focused on addressing problems and building solutions in three core areas:

  • Intelligent Transportation Services: Creates new, safer road usage patterns and options to create more seamless, safer connections across modes of transportation, transportation infrastructure, and/or road user communities
  • Commercial Transportation Safety: Improves the safety outcomes of commercial drivers, commercial vehicles, and/or road operators critical to commercial transportation
  • People-First Transportation Solutions: Focuses on putting people and their road safety vulnerabilities at the heart of product design, thereby reducing the exposure for all road users simultaneously

Startups interested in the 2020 program can read details and apply online until September 30. A GEP Pitch Night event is slated for early December, where the cohort will be announced.

Together for Safer Roads’s Global Entrepreneur Program is connecting early-stage companies with road safety experts at multinational companies and universities to reimagine solutions that reduce crashes and fatalities on the world’s roads.

Top 25 Expert LinkedIn Tips From The Pros

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When used properly, LinkedIn is a platform for establishing your credibility with like-minded professionals, giving you the ability to form business connections and build brand awareness. To help you make the most of your membership on the work-oriented social networking platform, FitSmallBusiness asked experts, including our CEO Christine Perkett, to share their LinkedIn marketing tips to help grow your business.

There are plenty of smart points in this article to help you leverage the platform for career growth, branding, sales, marketing & more.

How to Lead a Successful Virtual Team: Proven Advice From 10 International Companies

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Our Founder & CEO was included in this article about managing remote teams.

The 250 Most Influential Women Leaders

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Combining research with a set of unbiased metrics, Rise Global by RichTopia began compiling its list of the top 250 most successful female leaders from around the world in November 2015. Our Founder & CEO, Christine Perkett, has been on the list since it’s founding, among well known influencers such as politicians Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, actresses Lauren Conrad and Felicia Day, and activists such as Gloria Steinem and Shiza Shahid, Founding General Partner @NOW_VC and cofounder and global ambassador of the Malala Fund.

Richtopia is a digital business magazine that is dedicated to bringing today’s leaders the latest news and interesting stories from the worlds of business, tech, finance and economics as well as providing insights from the world’s most innovative, successful and inspiring people. The platform seeks to be the go-to resource for seekers of valuable knowledge about subjects such as entrepreneurship, management, work/life balance, investments and leadership.

Top 65 Women Business Influencers, Tenfold

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Our Founder & CEO, Christine Perkett, was ranked #52 among influential women including Arianna Huffington, Melinda Gates, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg and others – chosen by a unique measuring tool called “True Reach,” which was devised by Klear. While users of social media will often point to their follower count as an indicator of how influential they are, it’s easy to debunk that as a valuable metric. As is often the case, people use social media as a way to validate their ego and vanity, but True Reach cuts though that. Rather than simply counting how many people are actively following an account, True Reach measures how many people have seen a status update or post across multiple social media accounts; which provides a much more accurate picture of what someone’s influence looks like.

Top PR Influencers of 2018, Fit Small Business

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Fit Small Business compiled a list of Top Influencers of 2018 – including our Founder & CEO, Christine Perkett Congratulations to all of ! The goal is to share top Public Relations resources for small businesses, and includes tips and tricks from the best.

25 Top PR Influencers, IZEA

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In the world of public relations, it’s all about making connections. But who’s at the top of the heap when it comes to those connections? Who has the most followers in the PR world? Get to know some of the top PR influencers who are tweeting, ‘gramming, or blogging today – including our Founder & CEO, Christine Perkett.

Inspirational Women to Follow, Digital Doughnut

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You’re sitting there tapping your finger on the keyboard, wondering when to launch your career in social media, but not sure how to begin. Digital Doughnut compiled a list of 10 women to start following on Twitter, including our CEO & Founder Christine Perkett, to “help you stop tapping the keyboard and get moving.”

Four Steps to a Holistic PR Measurement plan, PR News

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In PR News’ Measurement Guidebook, our CEO & Founder, Christine Perkett, explains the importance of looking at your communications measurement holistically in order to truly prove the value of PR to the bottom line of the business.

As a sneak peek, PR News featured four pieces of advice that Christine shared about PR measurement.