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SWOT Analysis Examples

Up and Running

Botanical Bounty is an Oregon-based perennial farm that grows a variety of botanical, medicinal plants. Sales channel relationships. The recycled material from the PET plant will then be channeled into a brand-new Replay Plastics Packaging Division, which will produce extruded sheet plastic to sell to manufacturers.

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Technology For Scaling Your Real Estate Company

YoungUpstarts

While cloud based call center software does offer the ability for a caller to be engaged with a customer service agent over voice channels, many call center software solutions offer other options for customer interactions with your business as well.

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What You Can Do To Make Customer Care Your Most Effective Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Staying focused on a marketing strategy built around customer service is a long-game move that can be easy to get distracted from when you are pressured to make more sales now. Would you do it? Of course you would.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Signout startup- celebs leave voicemails for all fans to get text and dial in and listen to, hard to convert to ticket sales bc most didn’t have credit cards/money to pay even though they call 1-10 times a day.

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What is the future of retail?

Up and Running

At the close of 2013, Amazon reported holiday season sales were at an all-time high with more than 36.8 increase in sales. The future of shopping, more than anything else, is omni-channel. What is omni-channel retail? Which brings us back to the question: what is the future of retail? Or, how can you best prepare for it?

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5 Shark Tank Lessons Every Startup Should Understand

Up and Running

I’m a member of an angel investment group based where I live in Oregon. Investors like valuation to relate to actual business numbers, such as sales, gross margin (price less direct costs), and burn rate or fixed costs. More often, it’s secret formulas, secret ingredients, trade secrets, and relationships with channels of distribution.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

It’s also a good idea if you want a cohesive campaign that reflects your company’s goals, messaging and branding across multiple channels, from Facebook to smartphones. View More » Jobs VP of Sales at Mashable (New York, Ne. Image credits: Flickr, goincase. Facebook Gets Its First Non-Profit Gi.