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Satisfying Your Customers Need for Speed Today

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: How fast is fast enough for today’s demanding consumers? Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. So all the things that businesses care about, making sales, making repeat sales, average order size, consumer psychology, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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A Silicon Valley Take on ABC’s Shark Tank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The founder had not thought about his go to market approach, he had not researched competitors, and he had not done any market testing because it wasn’t convenient for him (wrong time of year – too hot in Indiana, so he didn’t bother). It is very positive that the founder had generated some sales and interest from retailers.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

I got fired from a software sales job, started a systems integrator called MicroSolutions. In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas.

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22 Ways Brands Can Use Facebook Live Video to Drive Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Though demand for the service had been demonstrated by smaller players, Facebook live video feeds didn’t catch on right away. Podcasters doing live recording sessions can supplement their efforts by offering a short live feed on Facebook to help drive ticket sales and attendance at future live recording sessions.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When my client workload started to expand and demand increased for creative graphics and web design I decided that it was time to grow the business and hire a team to help support the incoming work. My wife and I met in college in Indiana and soon after graduation, decided we were going to move to Chicago. Photo Credit: Vani Gundara.

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