YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Millennial CEOs in today’s business climate face a changing role from the traditional leadership image of the suit in the C-suite, especially when it comes to sales. It’s becoming increasingly important for top leadership to work directly with their sales managers to develop a stellar sales process. 46% more influential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Every organization must constantly review its hiring practices, training, and leadership to make sure the focus is on people who are motivated, open-minded, and empowered. It all starts with agile leadership.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

When your employees share your company content and updates on their own social media accounts, it in turn augments your brand. You don’t want your employee’s social media posts to come across as pushy or salesy. Instead, they should read naturally and not like a press release inside of a social media post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. Abraham serves his clients with both forward-looking business growth strategy and digital marketing through leadership applications partners. What problems does it solve?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Every organization must constantly review its hiring practices, training, and leadership to make sure the focus is on people who are motivated, open-minded, and empowered. It all starts with agile leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For example, at Moneypenny, we’ve discovered that despite a boom in the use of social media to contact businesses, the telephone still remains the most important communication method for customers to connect with businesses. It’s more important than ever to analyze your business data pre- and post- COVID.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2020

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. My leadership style is a direct reflection of my personality: driven, competitive and compassionate. One of the many blessings of success is the opportunity to ponder my leadership style. Social media presence?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Generalized email blasts and social media ads may be great for finding interest in your services, but these are not enough to close and maintain new clients. Just like consumers give top priority to peer feedback and experiences on social media or Yelp, you need to incent your clients to tell others about you and become your advocate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

They look at your track record, industry leadership, marketing energy, moral values, and peer relationships. With today’s worldwide Internet and social media, your brand impact is not set by what you say, but by numbers of followers, influencers, and satisfied customers. Brand recognition and market influencer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

This should generate interest in your products and services by providing thought leadership, advice, and information that your audience cares about. They use a healthy mix of email, social media, and blogging to get their messages across. Use the multi-channel approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2022

Smart entrepreneurs use social media and influencer advocates within the target market to build momentum and provide direction and support, even before they are ready to attack. Many entrepreneurs forget about white-labeling and strategic supplier relationships as routes to customers and long-term leadership.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But there comes a time when bringing on executive leadership is the reasonable and right next step. Another benefit of filling executive leadership roles is that doing so will likely free up time you can spend on other things. The nature of your business will determine which executive leadership positions make the most sense.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

“We don’t have budget for that this year” “I don’t believe in social media advertising.” Their view is that without “proof points” the senior leadership teams are likely to be cynical about the benefits of your product. It’s too strategic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Every one of you has had to deal with the conflicting requirements of optimizing your business in the short term versus the long term. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Your new car is a pleasure to drive, online shopping takes out the pain, and social media makes connection to old friends fun. This starts with strong leadership and communication on your part, but it has to extend into the training, decision making, and reward systems that you foster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. If your kids can use computers by age six, every entrepreneur ought to be able to stay current with the latest social media marketing and e-commerce technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2023

Remember mentorship and coaching are advanced forms of leadership, and develop strong bonds among team members. This means sending them to industry conferences, supporting professional organizations, as well as allocating time and roles for internal mentoring and coaching. This is a win-win for the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Objectively audit your business health for weaknesses and strengths in resources, leadership, skills, and experience. Act: Execute the plan and establish leadership drive. Take leadership control and allocate responsibility and feedback loops. Advance: Institutionalize new learning and leadership creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

It’s amazing how quickly these activities lead to leadership or management opportunities. Like me, I’m sure you notice if work-related phone calls and social media requests are not acknowledged or answered within one full workday. Hone your project management skills above all others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

If the communication with your employees is confined to little more than a regular Zoom meeting or the occasional email chain, there are still many aspects of management and leadership that need to be addressed. Working with Social Media.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Social media marketing. A large number of students can be found using a variety of social media channels. If the school still needs to put a significant amount of money into advertisements on social media platforms, then they need to rethink its strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Invest in Leadership Training. The practice of educating staff members in leadership abilities is referred to as leadership training. Leadership training courses come in various formats, including video, audio, live speeches, meetings and online classes, just to name a few. Embrace Digital Marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

Billions of consumers use social media platforms worldwide, so you need to refine your marketing strategies accordingly. Leadership Skills. As mentioned above, being an entrepreneur, you need to have the leadership qualities to lead from the front by setting good examples for your team. That is adaptability.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s not leadership. The military has three of the four pieces of the puzzle you need: strategy, access to technology, leadership. Leadership was not the problem. Strategy, technology, leadership – those were fine. The 2018 National Defense Strategy explained very clearly and effectively what needs to get done.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. Frankly if you can’t sit with prospects and tease out pain points then you ought to be working in a different department than sales or executive leadership. Do you see that at all inside your department?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books.

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Bandwidth Distribution Agile Social Media 262

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

Every one of you business owners I know has worked hard to build your brand, and recognizes the critical value of instant brand recognition and leadership. Pay close attention to social media and online feedback, and never respond defensively. Don’t wait for quarterly morale surveys, or feedback from HR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this age of interactive social media, your culture image quickly spreads to customers, and determines their loyalty. He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. They favor a “leadership by all” culture. So, how do you build trust?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This should be all you need to convince your leadership team that inclusion is advantageous. To capture this search engine gold, the leadership team must first agree this is a priority, create a budget for it, and then adopt a notability strategy. Only earned media boosts notability. Social media mentions do not help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Use social media and the media to build demand for change. Position competitors positively around you, and continue to find ways to keep yourself ahead of the crowd, with both product offerings and thought leadership. The change must also include long-term benefits, as well as short-term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Despite the ease of communication through social media, new tools, the popularity of fearless independence and #MeToo, I still see many business organizations that are less than productive due to fear. I finally found some real guidance on this challenge in a new book, “ The Fearless Organization ,” by Amy C.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These outside activities may be sports, non-profits or family activities where you can change roles, rely on someone else for leadership, or simply relax and recharge. Social-media vehicles, including Twitter and LinkedIn, allow interactions with hundreds of people, or one on one, without the pressure of your leadership role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions.

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