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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

And then, of course, other business owners stay aloof from customers for a different, more instinctual reason: In a digital age dominated by email and computer screens, they simply don’t know how to interact with customers face-to-face and avoid doing so at all costs. Do you wait days before responding to emails?

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Pull Investors to Your Business Plan With a Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Explain why the background of each team member fits, by naming roles and names of relevant companies. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Executive team.

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Give Investors an Executive Summary That Rocks

Startup Professionals Musings

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Explain why the background of each team member fits, by naming roles and names of relevant companies. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Executive team.

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Investors Love a Concise Executive Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Explain why the background of each team member fits, by naming roles and names of relevant companies. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Executive team.

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Texting: The Killer Application in your Offline Marketing Arsenal

Duct Tape Marketing

Online and offline marketing need to work together, for best results. Online marketing, as the name suggests, requires your audience to be online. 5 reasons why you should combine texting with other offline marketing channels. As a marketer, you want to get the most out of all the channels available to you.

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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

YoungUpstarts

As a young commodities broker right out of college, I recall receiving a call from a client named Steve each morning. Avoiding investing in marketing — or even cutting back on it — because one campaign didn’t produce the desired results is a risk you can’t afford to take. Excuse # 3: “If I just had XYZ gadget…”.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

My business is called Duct Tape marketing and all my other social media handles are Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Yeah, so my Twitter name is duct tape. But let’s talk about social media in general. So I think of direct sales. Your website, your email newsletter and social media. And so my-.