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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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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

Gust

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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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

Besides the loss of potential future revenue, any sunk costs (costs you initially incur to gain the customer) are unrecoverable. You’d be much better served to use what you know about your customers to create highly targeted and personalized direct marketing campaigns. Risk stepping out from behind technology.

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7 Steps To A Memorable New Venture Marketing Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

Even within the digital marketing arena, there are a thousand alternatives, vying for your limited budget. Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media?

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How to measure your power in the Internet marketplace.

Berkonomics

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. CMRR (Contracted Monthly recurring Revenue). Revenues are recorded as earned, not paid, especially when paid in advance. CPA (Cost per Acquisition).

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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. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Political campaigning with voter persuasion modeling. Movie recommendations.

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