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Tech That Can Make The Freelance Economy Sustainable

YoungUpstarts

They want platforms and services that automate hiring and retention while ensuring freelancers feel as supported as their full-time colleagues. Communication Channels: Open communication channels give freelancers and full-time employees a chance to connect consistently. Business leaders have different needs, however.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Savvy Entrepreneurs Use Data Mining To Look Forward

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Customer retention with churn modeling. Predictive advertisement targeting.

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10 Startup Prospects That Multiply If You Look Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Customer retention with churn modeling. Predictive advertisement targeting.

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Predictive Analytics is a Goldmine for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Customer retention with churn modeling. Predictive advertisement targeting.

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How To Be Successful In The New Customer Experience Battlefield

YoungUpstarts

Companies that actively focus on CX can significantly reduce churn rates, increase retention rates, and earn higher revenues. According to HubSpot , prior to the internet “service didn’t matter too much because contracts, for software companies as well as professional services, acted as ‘lock-ins’ on customer loyalty”.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks. cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM).

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