Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Too many business owners still think of “ customer support ” as an after-sale process to rectify customer problems with completed transactions. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

It takes a long time and lots of effort to overcome existing momentum, and both investors and customers want to see results on a small scale in their lifetime, before they line up to join the movement. Look for sizable customer populations unattractive to incumbents. Pitch your innovation against today’s market. Marty Zwilling.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This is partly due to the efforts made by apparel companies in recent years to improve the buying experience and place the customer at the center of their retail apparel marketing strategy. Customer experience management is essential for all fashion companies since it delivers significant insights into each brand engagement and touchpoint.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Do you need to invest in production services to create more creative rich media? Does your customer service department need additional tools? Prioritize the customer experience. It’s also ideal if you can find a virtual call center program that works across multiple communication channels, like social media.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

But I remind them that customers don’t ask for your transcript. It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. Lessons Learned. Entrepreneurship is a calling, not a job.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2020

This will allow smaller retail companies to reach new channels of customers. technology, for the first time, smaller to medium sized retailers will be able to institute conveniences that help them sort through customer demands without needing to use most of their budget. Through Retail 4.0 Spread Your Brand’s Presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 296

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

It means integrating digital technology into every aspect of business, including sales channels. It’s about using all the digital tools at your disposal, crossing every channel in order to maximize sales growth. Sales have gone social. Social media is where we live our lives – including our shopping lives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty. The recent pandemic and remote team members have made the focus on social even more critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. Consistently review and respond to relevant online feedback.

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Product Technical Review Entrepreneur Reputation 319

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They may be responsible for creating and monitoring content on any number of digital channels, including: Company websites. Social media. Digital marketers must use various tools to measure analytics, identify weaknesses, and improve performance across these channels. Planning and scheduling social media posts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model. Budget time and dollars for each.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

Designing your business logo is essential as it helps grabs the attention of customers and create a strong first impression. Here a digital marketer starts blogging, share content to social media channels, and optimise online directories. Social Media Advertising. Logo Designing. Bonus: Invest Appropriately.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. They map out a repeatable process to avoid chaos and confusion in your team and with customers.

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Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

This centralization improves content discoverability, eliminates duplication, and enables efficient content reuse across multiple channels. Multi-Channel Publishing: Businesses can easily distribute content across various platforms and channels, including websites, social media, email marketing, and mobile applications.

Software Review 158

Software Review Software Small Business Social Media 158

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Gather customer data across various channels and devices to have a more comprehensive profile. In fact, marketing automation platforms provide you with the ability to learn about your customers on a much deeper level and improve your personalization efforts. It’s all done by gathering and analyzing customer data.

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Marketing SMS Campaign Channel 179

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential customers. I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. Painful and invaluable” was her reply. Here’s how.

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Marketing Audience Technical Review PR 318

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Buyer Persona: All students on campus cannot fit into your ideal customer identity, otherwise known as a buyer persona. An example of an ideal customer for a gym business is students in years three and four who can afford a membership fee, are interested in sports and love keeping fit. Create A Business Website.

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Startup Social Media Finance Media 264

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy. What makes customer acquisition different from marketing?

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Acquisition eCommerce Customer Churn Rate 129

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions.

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Analytics Retention Social Media Startup 248

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These haven’t changed much over the years, but still seem to be often overlooked by business professionals and leaders in their haste to keep up with peers, competitors, and customers in today’s volatile environment. Timely follow-up on customer and team member requests. Loners need not apply.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

Startup 287

Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 287

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Despite the variety of present-day communication channels (E-mail, SMS, call, social media), it’s easy to see why building a productive rapport with future clients becomes increasingly tricky. Live chat on social media. So it falls right down the VA’s alley. Efficient prospect research.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Every day, I channel my enthusiasm into creating exciting and engaging math lessons, leveraging my wealth of experience to motivate my students. Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2020

That is why 80% of marketers have already incorporated visual assets in social media marketing campaigns. Outright selling and overt marketing just don’t work anymore – you need to educate customers about your product and help them understand it better to convince them to use it. Use Short, Digestible Slides To Disseminate Info.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As long as your online presence is boosted, whether that’s website or social media, you’ll be able to be found by anyone who wants to know more about you. The possibilities are truly endless here, and it allows your business to tap into new markets as well as customer segments that were previously not reachable.

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Marketing Social Media Reputation Audience 166

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most business professionals I know have been conditioned to think of inflation as highly negative, driving up their costs, and reducing customer buying. I see it as an opportunity to find new ways to attract customers , make long-needed changes to improve productivity, and lower your own costs of doing business.

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Technical Review Revenue Social Media Cost 239

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Customers will be even more comfortable with the introduction of voice commerce, another unicorn of the online shopping experience. Sustainability is the Queen In 2023, customers have become even more environmentally conscious, as recent statistics prove. Only in 2021, 72.9% Amazon has been at it for years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” If you are in the almost 30 percent of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Maximize customer retention.

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Social Media Media Reputation Viral 355

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Youre setting up an invaluable digital space to connect with customers, showcase what you offer, and establish your brand. While social media can be an important tool, its like renting space on someone elses platform. Your website, on the other hand, is fully yours and can be optimised to engage customers more directly.

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Naming New Zealand Software Review Social Media 74

Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Analyze your competitors to determine what sets your business apart and how you can offer unique value to your customers. Create a minimum viable product (MVP) or conduct surveys to gather feedback from potential customers. Include a detailed marketing strategy that encompasses both online and offline channels.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

To answer some of your questions about general eCommerce marketing and why it is useful, we have several ways to drive more sales that take the stress out of trying to find your customers. Using an eCommerce strategy not only helps to drive sales but also builds a brand image, reputation, and customer loyalty. Ask a marketing expert.

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eCommerce Sales Software Review Social Media 264

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

In an era where digital technology reigns supreme, car dealerships are increasingly turning to innovative automotive sales digital marketing strategies to boost sales and enhance customer experiences. By analyzing customer data, dealerships can gain insights into customer preferences and behavior patterns.

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