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8 Reasons Business Plans Fail That No One Wants to Talk About

Up and Running

For example, missing crucial deadlines for finishing the business plan, or drawing hockey stick profit projections can repel potential investors. To help students and startups, I have compiled a list of reasons business plans are rejected or given a low grade. Of course, there are obvious reasons that business plans fail.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale.

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Blogging for your business is worth it even if you get no traffic

The Startup Toolkit

Your traffic graph isn’t going to spike or hockey-stick, and that doesn’t matter one bit if you’re talking to the right people. 1] The guys who are making a living directly from blogging have 50k+ subscribers and give advice which involves buying lots of things via affiliate links.

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Transcript of Is Podcasting for You?

Duct Tape Marketing

Though I would say based on the numbers that I see it’s not like a hockey stick growth, but the growth in people’s desire to listen to the content and people’s desire to create terrific podcast content has really never been higher. So it’s good times for podcasting.

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