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10 Remote Staffing Blunders That Will Cost You Dearly

Startup Professionals Musings

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. With the high-speed Internet, our workers can be anywhere in the world.” Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.” Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Of course, you need work with partners and channel to quantity their costs and contributions and normalize total results. You have to determine how to share these costs and credit.

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7 Staffing Strategies That May Cost You Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. Making late or poor choices will cost you time, money, customers, and may cost you your business. Utilizing unprofessional sources for candidates.

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10 Keys To A Credible and Trusted Internet Web Domain

Startup Professionals Musings

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes.

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10 Outside Staffing Quotes True Entrepreneurs Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. With the high-speed Internet, our workers can be anywhere in the world.” Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.” Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. Internet users need to start watching out for themselves, like looking both ways before you cross the street.