Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” His business has since closed, but his mindset is still out there. Or are you too busy? entrepreneur get started small business social media'

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Tony Lillios is a serial entrepreneur and most notably a co-founder of Speck Products, the protective case maker for mobile products, which was acquired by Samsonite in 2014. Pay off your credit cards, and start focusing on how you can bring in new business. Nextiva – VOIP phone providers for small businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Are you a young, new, or aspiring entrepreneur looking to take your first steps with investing in gold and are not sure on how to interpret the daily gold price? It’s not necessary for you to analyse market research to calculate which direction markets are expected to move.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs and small businesses, I often get asked where to start, and how to proceed. There are still customers who won’t give your brand total credibility until it appears on television ads, in newspapers, direct marketing, and at trade shows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We discussed marketing, advertising and direct marketing agencies as being the best channel partners for him. More to come from entrepreneurs in Africa I'm sure. As presented, this is a classic nice to have, but not a must have business. Marketing to consumers is very different than marketing to SMEs.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 29, 2023

Aside from the basics, finding the right bank, and pairing it with the right bank account is a consideration many startup entrepreneurs and small business owners often overlook during the initial induction phase of their company.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had switched it from proofreading to internet marketing, and as a natural course of running that blog I got introduced to other bloggers who also wrote about business and internet marketing, and we just connected through Skype or through email. He really loves small business. Create a product to sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As consumers, we love free things and businesses are tapping into this psychology by investing in online coupon sites. An online coupon site is basically an advertising platform that facilitates group buying deals via direct marketing. How can businesses benefit? Think of the amount of exposure your business gets as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

In the past year you have probably handed out and received literally hundreds of these tiny leaflets – an ongoing marketing effort that we don’t often think of as marketing. Business card design: BeeOsx. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We know you’re busy getting your business off the ground and perfecting your product. We’re all about removing obstacles for busy entrepreneurs. That’s why we’ve created this list specifically for small business owners with tight budgets and precious little time. Start building your email list. Get Creative.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Twenty-three percent of small business owners say that out of all the tasks involved in running their business, being a salesperson is their least favorite , making sales the least favorite task after bookkeeping, an eVoice survey found. People buy from people they like and trust. Make an Offer.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 24, 2016

That business was acquired by Hobsons , a unit of UK-based DMGT , where Dooley served as VP Digital Marketing and continues in a consulting role. Dooley spent years in direct marketing as the co-founder of a successful catalog firm and also was director of corporate planning for a Fortune 1000 company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2013

Grow America announces its $35,000 Innovative Product Competition for passionate entrepreneurs. Some of the surest successes in history have come from founders who created a product to meet a personal need and discovered a business by virtue of doing so. 2) The market understands the offering. To that I say nonsense.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 27, 2015

Author and Entrepreneur, Roger Dooley, joins Episode 25 of the Profit First Podcast. Roger shares a few tips on how to use neuromarketing to increase profitability in your business. That business was acquired by Hobsons, a unit of UK-based DMGT, where Dooley served as VP Digital Marketing and continues in a consulting role.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2015

the key principles you should keep in mind when sending newsletters or advertisements are that your direct marketing messages should be: An accurate description of the product or service, legal, decent, truthful, honest, and socially responsible (not encouraging illegal, unsafe, or anti-social behavior). . The FTC in the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why Selling Less Could Be the Key to Earning More written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Chuck Blakeman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Chuck Blakeman, a successful entrepreneur, business advisor, and author of Sell Less, Earn More.

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Usually, even within a small company it's a right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Where marketing puts a good direct marketing plan together only to have the IT guy drop the ball by providing an old data base for the direct marketing. The Entrepreneur's Yoda" knows these things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 16, 2010

If it is more of a business to business piece, then aim it at industry publications, which is your direct market, rather than a more general audience. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here. Visit www.mcdulingpr.com.au.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More amazing bus ads in the Social Media & Marketing section below. How To Grow Your Business With Content Marketing (20 tips) – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 20, 2022

Toilet paper entrepreneur was kind of like your first book to get out there, to write about what you'd been doing and your experience, but then it feels like you went on a pumpkin plan, profit first clockwork now even, you know, get different. So the overarching goal is to have a compendium of books for small business.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 16, 2010

If it is more of a business to business piece, then aim it at industry publications, which is your direct market, rather than a more general audience. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here. Visit www.mcdulingpr.com.au.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

by Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “ Imagine you stand at the edge of an enormous cliff, a parachute strapped to your back. This is the dilemma entrepreneurs face every day. Building a successful business when money is tight is a true accomplishment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges.

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Usually, even within a small company it's a right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Where marketing puts a good direct marketing plan together only to have the IT guy drop the ball by providing an old data base for the direct marketing. And it could have been avoided. He's been there.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

“We’re trying to find entrepreneurs who are thinking of it as another stage in the company,” he said. “Entrepreneurs who sell to Google are doing it because they have a vision of what they’re trying to do,” Lawee told attendees. Nice piece and certainly one that covers what many entrepreneurs think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

If you are willing to put in the time, and learn the necessary farming and business skills to become the profitable small business farmer you know you could be, there’s good news. Dr. The University of Vermont Extension has a whole lot more to say about hobby farming versus running a farm as a business. It’s doable!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2013

All over the country, there are entrepreneurs — or wannabe entrepreneurs — who are just like Steve. Business plans sit in boxes or on hard drives as their creators wait for the right conditions: funding, free time, better economic conditions. Those words are most often uttered by small business owners in reference to marketing.

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