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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Companies today are paranoid, afraid that even their friends will steal their business. Cross endorsement.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Companies today are paranoid, afraid that even their friends will steal their business. Cross endorsement.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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8 Key Focus Elements Will Attract Startup Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service, revenue), and keep the scope realistic (eliminating world hunger is too broad). For a startup, it’s impossible to run an effective Facebook, Twitter, content marketing, and Google AdWords online campaign all at the same time.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Keep these balanced and aligned between people (customers, employees) and process (quality, service, revenue), and keep the scope realistic (eliminating world hunger is too broad). For a startup, it’s impossible to run an effective Facebook, Twitter, content marketing, and Google AdWords online campaign all at the same time.

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Savvy Entrepreneurs Use Data Mining To Look Forward

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. On the movie production side, it’s time to start doing analyses on movie scripts, based on reaction to similar movies, to predict box office revenue and cities to hit. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

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10 Startup Prospects That Multiply If You Look Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. On the movie production side, it’s time to start doing analyses on movie scripts, based on reaction to similar movies, to predict box office revenue and cities to hit. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

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