Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Consult with Ease: Personalize Your Customer Stragtegy Using AI written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with David Edelman In this episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing David Edelman , a seasoned digital transformation and marketing expert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere. Neither partner needs to be managed. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see a much more complete and broader perspective of employee support recommendations in a new book, “ Employees First! ” by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. Emotional stability. Financial strength. Environmental safety.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Is there a real customer willing to give a testimonial?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

From a diverse workforce to huge investments in training and development, these giants have evolved as favourites among customers only because of long-term decision-making and setting clear goals and objectives to be achieved within a specific period. Strategic operations management in the electronic industry is not easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Personnel Manager. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. This commitment to hire people who think like entrepreneurs, or instill an “owner’s mindset” in every employee, should be a high priority in every business.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Choosing the right structure not only impacts your personal liability but also your ability to protect intellectual property, secure investment, and manage taxes. Use Contracts to Your Advantage Whether you’re hiring employees, working with vendors, or entering into agreements with partners, contracts are essential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This can essentially be between the business and the customers or the business and the employees. This makes the work space management much easier. The booking system is streamlined which only assists the users, especially the employees who can conduct their meetings in an efficient manner. Coordination between employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

Business ethics are more about religion than management or leadership. An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Ethics can’t be managed. The reality is different.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Carlos stirred his coffee.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Also, if your employees will use personal devices in the workplace, you must ensure they are using the latest security protections, such as: Biometric authentication. You must also routinely review your data security plan as you hire more employees and create more departments. Embrace Managed IT Services. Facial recognition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Personnel Manager. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Subjectively measuring employee engagement. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the last step of the process, where surprises in the evaluation of the management team, documentation, and personnel problems can derail the investment. Make sure the Business Plan and all related documents are current, synchronized, and in the hands of every key employee. Contact key vendors and existing customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. I know a change is going to come.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Unfortunately, I see too many new entrepreneurs who let their passion for a new idea or invention blind them to the stark realities of customer need, opportunity size, or pricing and cost implications. The sooner you face these issues, the more success you will garner from investors and customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

Enterprise solutions architects face the daunting task of managing vast volumes of data in today’s data-driven world, where Big Data presents both capabilities and challenges that make effective data management paramount. What Is Data Fabric?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

In reality, the best business process innovations usually come from regular employees on the front line of your business, just trying to do a better job and better serve customers. Current research indicates that innovation is a discipline, it can be maximized, measured, and managed through formal processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For best results, my advice is to think like an entrepreneur, even if you are a corporate employee. He lays out seven thinking strategies for both entrepreneurs and employees that will make them business winners: Focus on the customers at all times. They don’t realize that customers are the source of all business payback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2021

Only the best leaders and CEOs pay real attention to how and when people commit, how employees accept accountability, and how they win. Too many CEOs today like to talk, trust their gut, but fail to listen to their team or the customer. Manage the conflicting demands of leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

by Aaron Adlem, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions UK. With a nation-wide reliance on remote working schemes calling for countless employees to carry out the business’ essential processes from their own homes – proficient IT support and management has never been so important. Data Storage and Management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Hiring virtual assistants for each specific project can be a lot more efficient and cheaper than hiring and managing employees.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

Image Source Gone are the days when small businesses had to rely on manual processes and spreadsheets to manage their operations. Users can create professional invoices, track expenses, manage inventory, and generate financial reports. Accounting Accounting solution applications offer features to simplify and automate accounting tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The Entrepreneurial Perspective sees the business as a system for producing outside results for the customer, resulting in profits. The Technician’s Perspective sees the business as a place in which people work to produce inside results for the Technician, producing employee income.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2020

by Dr. Katrina Burrus , author of “ Managing Brilliant Jerks: How Organizations and Coaches Can Transform Difficult Leaders into Powerful Visionaries “ Toxic workplaces sometimes start at the top. Those types of leaders may produce results, but their actions also lead to dysfunction and employee turnover.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Clear, effective business documentation creates clarity in the minds of employees, stakeholders, and external partners and eventually builds trust for seamless operation. This is especially true for businesses that rely heavily on technology and outsourced services, such as those utilizing Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In my experience of many years as a business founder, consultant, and executive, I offer the following list of situations that always imply a real need for people and business leadership, and have the potential for long-term positive impact to your bottom line and business success: Your business image is slipping in the eyes of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.

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