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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Detail your customer retention plan. Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales. Be sure to provide a clear rationale for your pricing strategy. Detail all revenue streams. Ready to get started?

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

Making this switch will allow companies and employees to save up to $12,000 per employee per year, while offering a better employee health benefit program for recruiting and retention purposes. Opportunities to profit from offering defined contribution solutions include: Increased individual health insurance policy sales.

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3 Reasons Saying ‘I’m Sorry’ And ‘Thank You’ Can Change Corporate Culture

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “Expect Leadership” Companies that train their employees in what are commonly referred to as “soft skills” are finding those efforts pay off in productivity and retention.

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Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools

crowdSPRING Blog

Surprise is more effective than other forms of retention-based marketing. Surprise is a more effective marketing tool than nearly all forms of retention-based marketing. in terms of increased sales, increased profit margin through customer retention, and reduced advertising costs) of such a strategy.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. Do you need this for recruitment and retention? Rightly or wrongly, public ownership often lends prestige and credibility to the company in its sales efforts, general public relations, and the execution of its future strategies.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. But stuff like retention is super important. So how sticky are your customers, and can you break that down to customer retention? I never had to focus on building a sales team. Sounds great.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” million in sales pipeline influenced.

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