Friday Five: 5 Social Media Tips for Entrepreneurs

On Leadership:  On delegation “Giving people freedom to make mistakes is very important.” @richardbranson #df12live — ladove (@ladove) September 19, 2012   RT @salesforcelive: “Run your company like a family. Genuinely, like a family.” @richardbranson #Df12Live #business — Rachel Miller (@rachelloumiller) September 19, 2012   On leadership: “Create organizations that believe in themselves. Have courage, [...]

The RingCentral team participated in Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce event, and we had a fabulous time meeting with customers, prospects, re-sellers. Check out our video highlights from the event. Special shout-out to the RingCentral team, who worked hard and prepared for weeks for Dreamforce: – The creative team, who created the booth and all the wonderful [...]

Google+ introduced Events – which work well for inviting people to a get-together at a physical location – about two months ago. Now, Social Media Examiner reports, Google+ is moving in front of Facebook by combining Events with its Hangouts service (which enables live, multi-person video chats). What’s great about Hangouts is that they’re location-agnostic. [...]

Last week, we attended the unSEXY Conference, “a 1-day conference about tech startups and companies who are actually doing something incredibly sexy…[by] building scalable, sustainable businesses.” The Mountain View, CA event was sponsored by 500 Startups and hosted by founder Dave McClure. In general,  technology companies aren’t considered “sexy” compared to companies offering more tangible consumer [...]

Every business should constantly strive to improve and optimize customer communications. Learn the latest best practices on effectively engaging with your customers — join our free webinar with business expert Melinda Emerson. Melinda Emerson is a business development and marketing expert who consults for a number of Fortune 500 companies. She also hosts a weekly chat [...]

I am honored and thankful to have had the opportunity to interview Stanford professor Dr. Tina Seelig. Watch the video above for a re-play of the conversation between me and Dr. Seelig, who provided a bevy of insights into how creativity works and how to apply creative principles to business problems. Dr. Tina Seelig and [...]

We’re delighted to host a free webinar with Stanford professor Tina Seelig, who will talk about applying creative principles to business solutions. Tina will draw from her latest book, inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity, which includes a set of tools to enhance ingenuity for individuals and companies. This free webinar is on Wednesday, August [...]

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh delivered a truly inspirational talk in yesterday’s RingCentral webinar. Tony’s presentation on “Delivering Happiness” included lessons he has learned in business and life, from running a pizza business to co-founding LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265 million), Zappos, and more. The well-known entrepreneur also revealed his philosophy on hiring and inspiring employees to [...]

Please join us for RingCentral Salon’s webinar event featuring Tony Hsieh, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Delivering Happiness and Zappos CEO. When: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:00 am-noon PST / 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST Attendance is FREE, but space is limited – REGISTER NOW! Tony’s presentation on Delivering Happiness contains lessons that business [...]

We are big fans of author and Fortune magazine editor Adam Lashinsky. His new book, Inside Apple is at the top of our CEO’s recommended book list, so it was our pleasure to have Adam visit RingCentral HQ for our most recent RingCentral Salon event to discuss the book. Adam shared his insights on Apple’s wildly unconventional [...]