YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

by Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “ Here’s one of business’s dirty little secrets: Many business owners prefer to keep their customers at arm’s length. If you lose a customer due to price or other circumstances beyond your control, then fine.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

As a versatile ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics caters to a variety of business needs, supporting everything from sales management to customer interactions. Its modular nature allows for customized setups that can grow with your business, providing an infrastructure that adapts to both current needs and future expansion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Wouldn’t it be great to cut to the chase and go straight to the best resources for great new small business marketing ideas? Here, in no particular order, are the top 16 small business marketing blogs you should read in 2019. Small Business Daily. Small Business Trends. Social Triggers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. CRM applications, often used in combination with data warehousing, eCommerce applications , and call centers, allow companies to gather and access customer information. What is CRM?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Of course, users won’t be able to customize their project as fully as if they were coding it from scratch. But in most cases, that level of customization isn’t necessary. How small businesses can benefit from no-code tools. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2025

Solving the Marketing Leadership Gap for Small Business (Marketing Leadership as a Service) written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Small business marketing can feel like an endless checklist: create content , run Google Ads, post on social media, and optimize for SEO.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Below is a list of the five most common business activities that companies choose to outsource and the reason behind it. When you are running a small business, chances are bookkeeping is not something that needs to be dealt with daily, so hiring someone in-house for this job only might be a bit counterproductive. Legal Services.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Generate more leads and use scoring to identify who is most qualified. Gather customer data across various channels and devices to have a more comprehensive profile. Align better with your sales team to define what a qualified lead looks like. It’s all done by gathering and analyzing customer data.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Your small business may have a terrific product or service. But that still may not be enough to keep your business alive. In fact, 50% of small businesses fold by their fifth year. But you don’t have to leave the success or failure of your business to chance. Challenge #1: Lack of Leads.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. However, like other UX research techniques (including user personas ), there’s some vagueness and obscurity around how to actually create customer journey maps. Moments of Truth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. Use social media to engage customers in new ways and sharpen your brand.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

Others are based on misconceptions about how the business world works, what motivates customers, and so forth. Sometimes that sabotage might cost you ‘only’ a customer or a sale… but over time, a few customers here and a few dollars there can lead to your closing your doors forever. Holding resources in reserve.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2018

Transcript of Why Local SEO is an Important Lead Generation Channel written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a local SEO, website building, and lead generation expert out in the California area, and also the co-author of Local Lead Generation, and happens to be a Duct Tape Marketing consultant as well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 19, 2012

5 Ways for Small Business to Jump on the Big Data Train This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. PR firms are forming teams to promote it and consulting firms have their business technology teams all over it. So, what is it and what does it mean for small business. Tech firms like are all about it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2017

6 Tactics for Turning Your Website into a Lead Generating Machine written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Your website should be a mechanism in your business that allows you to convert prospective visitors into interested leads who will later become customers and advocates for the products and services that you sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2018

Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to run a business today, you need to be advertising on Facebook and Google. Here, we’ll look at how to make Facebook and Google work best for you, the small business owner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2014

How to Leverage Phone Conversations with Customers written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Jeanne Landau – Enjoy! Every Department Has an Effect on Customer Satisfaction.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. Sales finds aligned accounts and works with marketing to create customized journeys. ABM doesn’t stop at lead generation or new opportunities. What is account-based marketing?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2017

Being known as the best accountant or trainer in your region is nice, but by building a brand around your business, you pave the way to scale up your business that can maybe one day employ hundreds of professionals from your industry. Gradually Build Your Business Brand. . Building A Personal Brand Is A Safe Bet. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Almost any form of communication with your customers falls under its umbrella. Without marketing, your business may as well exist in an unlit locked vault – no customers are coming in and no sales are going out. Close, But No Cigar.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

For instance, if you operate in the hospitality industry, keeping up with the latest food and drink trends can help attract more customers and lead to growth. It is important to incorporate it into your business plan in order to identify areas that are not functioning properly within the company.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Being a consultant is a role that works with big companies, but I have found that it doesn’t get much traction in small businesses and startups. Over the years since, I have honed my own list of rules for those of you who wish to migrate from big business to this new world: Re-focus your efforts from consulting to freelance.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Otherwise, it’s uniqueness stood out on its own and it generated curiosity. Attracting someone from the start can save money on ads, lead generation, and marketing in the future. I wrote a list of 50+ potential business names and ended up choosing TapTimize. 14- HQ in Lisbon and our target customers are San Francisco.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. Use social media to engage customers in new ways and sharpen your brand. small businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

What makes embracing change even more difficult is that a business must be willing to simultaneously change internally and externally to keep progressing and remain competitive. Internal change happens within the business walls and is not necessarily customer facing. Get up close and personal with customers. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Satisfying Your Customers Need for Speed Today written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Jay is a customer experience and digital marketing pioneer, expert, advisor, researcher, and analyst. Your customers are deciding to buy from you today (and every day) based on how fast you are (or aren’t).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Be targeted in marketing and lead generation. For me, that’s the definition of success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

I may be old fashioned, but the term consultant still conjures up an image of a self-proclaimed expert who can make great presentations, generate recommendations and leave you to do the hard work of implementation. That’s called leading by example, and it is actually appreciated by businesses of every size.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

As a result, businesses in this field should leverage technology to provide interactive, easy-to-understand educational content that can help customers make health-related decisions and maintain healthy habits. Every step that a product takes toward the customers will experience innovation in 2023. Thanks to Jaden Oh, TRAFFV !

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With a growing number of budding entrepreneurs and small business enterprises spreading across the globe, there is intense competition in every industry you can name. Smaller businesses particularly find themselves stifled due to the fierce competitive practices of large companies, which restricts their growth.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 22, 2016

One of the pet peeves I’ve had since I have been a small business owner has been the background work around analyzing data, putting it all together and making sense of it. She also talked about CRM, so those of you who don’t know the term, it stands for Customer Relationship Management. What fun!” Oh well, who knows right?

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Operations Social Media Lead Generation Media 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

Lead Generation – A Complete System written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Leads are the lifeblood of every business. Clients are actually the lifeblood, however, without leads there are no clients, but that’s a topic for another post. 3 Fully Developed Lead Generation Playbooks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Jon Ferrara is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, one of the early pioneers in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). If you aren’t a Nimble customer, use the code JON40 and you’ll get 40% off your first 3 months of Nimble.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

How to Leverage Mobile Technology to Gain Insights Into Your Marketplace written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Willie Pena – Enjoy! Geolocation Will Give More Insight Into Customer Habits.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

Indeed, digital marketing has made many small businesses successful because of reaching more customers in less time and effort. Here are some of the digital marketing strategies you might consider for your business: Lead Generation: A digital marketing expert can help you with increasing quality leads to boost your sales.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He has assisted small business owners improve brand visibility online and boost lead generation, which translates to higher sales conversions. It not only earns an entrepreneur respect but also customer loyalty and the trust of employees, suppliers and partners.

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