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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2011, our family was sitting around the dinner table brainstorming when our teenage daughter Mia had a great idea – starting a company that sells the best possible organic roasted seaweed in delicious flavors. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. o Everything is for sale but it’s the price that moves the timing.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. Facebook works. The case study seemed to contain a rookie mistake.

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Beware The Consultant

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If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. Sales (12). Passion Cannot be Outsourced.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Fast forward 20 years, 3 kids and a roller coaster journey – I look back knowing that having to reinvent myself over and over has taught me skills about emotional and sales agility. Sinordo, Modern CPA Group ! #17- based company founded in 2011 on the basis of sharing my love of real roasted coffee with all people.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales. Sales (13).

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

We did GroupMe for around three years, turned into a company and ended up selling it to Skype for around eighty million dollars and that was in 2011. Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. I’ll say that one more time. This is number one.