Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

It helps businesses to be discovered by customers, to stand out from competing businesses, and drive traffic to the store that can be converted into sales. Another reason for paying attention to Google Maps ranking is that it improves your listing quality and opens up additional ways for customers to interact with your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I suggest looking for painful problems to solve, rather than “easier to use” or “nice to have” solutions, for customers with money. Customers line up to believe and buy from people who are viewed as leaders or experts relative to a specific solution. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The CMS comes with ready-made themes, templates, and frontends that can get edited to match business needs. Businesses can operate in two ways, the traditional brick-and-mortar store and the online business, which has gained popularity due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. It helps customize your website to meet the business needs.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

For sales processes, machine learning is a dream come true. Not all sales tools are created equal, though. The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement.

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Up and Running

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s been a challenging year, and small businesses face different difficulties, from having to shut due to Covid-19 to the struggles of securing Government loans to stay afloat. You made the sale, accounted for the revenue already, only to be forced to give back the money and even pay a fee on top of it all.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

After all: Tech support deals with insane customers. Tech support keeps angry customers at bay while having no power to effect change. If this is your attitude, your conception of tech support is completely backwards and you're missing out on important channels for marketing, product development, and sales. That's sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

To help you with that, we’ve assembled a list of the most popular a/b testing tools and corresponding reviews from A/B testing experts to help you in your decision making process. Customer service team are very responsive and quick to tackle problems if any arise. We sourced reviews for Apptimize from G2Crowd.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I can’t remember how many times at Smart Bear I tried to sell Code Collaborator with the argument that it “saves you money.” ” And customers demanded it — some even required that we produce an ROI spreadsheet. Code Collaborator cuts the time in half, which means you save $1,500 every month.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The world grows more impersonal by the day, and people crave being more than just another number in the customer queue. During the last few years, marketers have turned toward more personalized experiences to win customers over. How to use personalization to improve customer experience. What is personalized marketing?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

How To Pick And Implement A CRM So You Can Boost Your Sales written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. About this episode: In this episode of the Agency Spark Podcast, Sara talks with Jeroen Corthout on how to pick and implement a CRM so you can boost your sales. Key topics: how to determine which CRM is best for you.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Consumer shopping behaviors have changed dramatically since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with ecommerce retailers seeing unprecedented growth in traffic and sales. This can be a standalone page or you can include it in your existing help center or FAQ page, so long as customers can easily find the information.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. But the “no sales people” mantra isn’t what I’m here to take on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

Traffic leads to inquiries and sales, and consistent visits from the same users mean repeat customers. When your site traffic suddenly dips or your rankings plummet, it will create lost opportunities that affect your conversions and sales. Tracking code errors. Is your tracking code properly implemented and working?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If you’re an e-commerce site, you’re probably always looking for new ways to generate more sales. If your profile is on a network that allows reviews, try to get some recommendations from past customers. You could potentially offer customers an incentive – like a discount code – in exchange for their positive review.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2019

Due to this reason, marketers are having a prime platform for connecting with their customers and gaining more customers. SMS marketing is much beneficial too as customers will just have to send a short code or follow links instead of URL or copy paste links. Mobile Vouchers and QR Codes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. Think of it from the customer's perspective – Why should this customer shop from your store instead of the other stores selling this product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “. No one can truly understand your customers or genuinely share their interests unless she is a customer herself. Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Highly trained salespeople.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Sales forecasting is much easier than you think, and much more useful than you imagine. You review and revise your forecast regularly. Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. Lines of sales. Example of bike store sales lines. We’re human; we don’t do that well.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 23, 2010

This isn't just a problem when pitching — it's a problem with you defining who your customers are, what they want, and your role in the marketplace. Of course you're going to position your company with a unique offering: exclusive features, a distinctive culture, a refreshing pricing plan, an innovative sales strategy, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2018

A prospective customer looks to your business to provide something they need or want. The first scenario will lead to an unhappy customer and poor word-of-mouth marketing. Scenarios 2 and 3 will likely lead to a loyal new customer and positive word-of-mouth marketing. by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. You meet their expectations.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential customers. She was an academic on leave from Stanford now selling SAAS software to large companies, but was being inundated with marketing communications advice. “My Painful and invaluable” was her reply. Here’s how.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

To steal customers away from competitors without throwing endless amounts of money at major advertising platforms, work smarter, not harder. Dig into your sales data too. Detail the customer demographics that purchase certain products or services. These two platforms are then matched up in real time.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Few people are paranoid about something they want and enjoy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Spanning the breadth of using content to generate leads, acquire prospects and convert customers, the book straddles content marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), social media and other related areas. Unlike outbound methods, inbound marketing looks at using targeted and valuable content on the Internet to draw customers in.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Retailers are losing $18 billion annually due to shopping cart abandonment. So why are consumers leaving right at the point of sale and what can companies do about it? Your security code: a 3 digit code found on the back of your card”). Mobile customers expect a checkout experience that is user-friendly and seamless.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2020

So, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that email marketing is the most cost-effective strategy to increase your audience base while enhancing your sales. One of the fastest-growing software industries, the global marketing automation spending is likely to reach $25 billion by 2023. Helps in refining your marketing and sales campaign.

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Transformify

MARCH 28, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based HR Software company and a member of the Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition of the EU Commission and Social Enterprise UK, has announced the launch of Sustainable Remote Jobs Initiative to tackle unemployment amid coronavirus outbreak. ii) Most businesses face challenges acquiring new customers. Job Seekers.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

When you choose some software provider, services or tools to buy, you want to know what is “under the hood”, is it a proven technology, is it a sustainable, scalable and modern software solution? In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Payment Services.

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