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Tips for Entrepreneurs to Minimize Expenditure 

The Startup Magazine

This includes variable costs (e.g., sales commission, raw materials, and packaging) and fixed costs (property rental, company car instalments, etc.). The early years of a business often require trade-offs between something that would really help you and not being able to take on more fixed costs.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis.

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An SEO Crash Course For Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Not only will unclear navigation compromise your SEO rankings, it will also cost you conversions when visitors find your website. Once SEO drives visitors to your website, Google Analytics helps you turn them into customers. After you build a clear, functional website, optimize the metadata for SEO.

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Addicted to Ruthless Efficiency

OnlyOnce

I’ve been doing virtually all client-related meetings, whether sales calls or customer success calls, in 30 minutes over Zoom or equivalent for a year now. What’s this meeting going to cost? Sometimes I even get one done in 15 minutes. Very, very rarely, I’ll book one for an hour. But YIKES, that’s a lot of money. We are a STARTUP.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. She said, “Dad, one of the great things you and Mom did was never tell us how much things cost.” Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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Why (and how) you should let your customers do the advertising for you

Duct Tape Marketing

Why (and how) you should let your customers do the advertising for you written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My company was profitable, but I was constantly stressing over the daily fluctuations in advertising cost. You should always strive to be a company that you would want to be a customer of.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

The positioning of the company needs work, although I do believe Rahul has half a dozen beta customers whose feedback and engagement would give him the ammunition with which to find and validate the real pain point around in-house legacy systems at call center companies. At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value.".

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