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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. Ineffective and expensive marketing campaigns. But I often see premiums being paid for social media monitoring, standard accounting, and facilities mgmt.

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The 16 Best Small Business Marketing Blogs You Should Read in 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

And, as all business owners know, marketing is an important part of your business. So, when you’re looking at the big picture, marketing is bound to come up. But, your time is limited and unless you’re an experienced marketer or have a marketing team, marketing is a constant challenge. Social Triggers.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

We asked 20 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2019. #1- I cannot wait to see what 2019 brings. . For 2019 my goals are to: 1. Our Goal for 2019 is to become the most contributed machine dealership in America in donations to Scholarships, Veterans and Children’s hospital.

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How Modern Companies Have Redefined Customer Support

Startup Professionals Musings

With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers. One bad customer experience will kill not only one customer, but many future ones, who hear the message via social media and friends. The world has changed.

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Emerging Manager Mode: The VC’s version of “Do things that don’t scale”

VC Cafe

It’s about going beyond traditional metrics and processes, adopting unconventional approaches, and doing things that might seem unscalable to most. They wear multiple hats: investor, marketer, recruiter, and more. Example: Emerging managers handle everything from deal sourcing to LP communications to social media in-house.

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7 Keys To Using Social Media to Kickstart Your Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.