crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. While there may always be unexpected expenses, your rent, phone bill, internet fees, invoicing software subscription or memberships fees, annual taxes, supply costs, and employee salaries (if any) should all be taken into account.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These include the National Retail Federation, the E-commerce Association, the Direct Marketing Association, and the American Marketing Association. 25- Online & offline groups Photo Credit: Paige Arnof-Fenn I started a global branding and digital marketing firm 20 years ago and most of my business comes from networking.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers. Increasingly, a hands-on product/customer, and business model-centric CEO with an entrepreneurial vision of the future may be the difference between market dominance and Chapter 11.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers. Increasingly, a hands-on product/customer, and business model-centric CEO with an entrepreneurial vision of the future may be the difference between market dominance and Chapter 11.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Even for small companies, it is critical that all employees be well-informed about what skills, technology and information can be shared with their partner and what is off-limits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Growing Your Business With Content Marketing, Mobile Website Tips, Habits of Successful Employees – [link]. 3 Employees You Need To Fire. How To Grow Your Business With Content Marketing (20 tips) – [link]. Applying Traditional Direct Marketing Principles to the Digital Age – CRM Magazine – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Even for small companies, it is critical that all employees be well-informed about what skills, technology and information can be shared with their partner and what is off-limits.

Partner 244

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 244

Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. There are several key performance indicators that help new generation company management see more clearly their progress and corporate health. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Even for small companies, it is critical that all employees be well-informed about what skills, technology and information can be shared with their partner and what is off-limits.

Partner 120

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

Our Town is an interesting direct marketing business which essentially introduces people who move to a new neighborhood to the businesses within that community. The military had helped him grow up and find himself. It was time to start giving back, so he decided to return and help drive the family business. New Beginnings.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And now three years later, we are a team of 26 full-time employees. John Jantsch (19:23): It's funny, of course, this is gonna come to SMS and it's certainly email marketing, all the privacy things that are mm-hmm. And I think that we're gonna maybe see a resurgence of direct mail because of that.

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Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 73

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Remember Kozmo.com, whose employees promised delivery of DVDs and ice cream in under an hour for free? Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels. Thats real money."

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].” He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business. He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. There are a number of key performance indicators that help new generation company management see more clearly their progress and corporate health. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio).

Internet 75

Internet CPA Acquisition Revenue 75

ConversionXL

JANUARY 26, 2017

Broad data about email marketing reinforces the fact that it is an effective and powerful medium for customer engagement. The Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) 2015 National client email report tells , “Email has an average ROI of $38 for each $1 spent.” That year, the company earned $74.45 billion in sales.

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Retention Email eCommerce Software Review 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

In the perfect world this happens when the founder(s) actually close the first few (3-3000 depending on market) paying customers themselves. And when you do delegate responsibility I tend to favor the “Trust but Verify&# model- telling new employees, “I’m going to be looking over your shoulder for the first 90 days.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Even if you, the business owner, have conquered your fear of risk and move into uncharted territory without hesitation, progress paralysis might still be affecting your company through the actions (or inaction) of your employees. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A confused mind always says ‘no’, goes the old direct marketing adage. Google only displays 65 characters in its search results, email clients such as Gmail will truncate long subject lines and Twitter doesn’t allow too much for tweeting your headline. CityCliq: 88.9% improvement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape marketing podcast. John Jantsch: She is an author, speaker and former early employee of Twitter. So I mean I basically ended up as an early employee at Twitter after becoming an early user of the platform back in 2006. So I think of direct sales.

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Social Media Media Framework Advertising 39

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2013

While it may be true that your proposed market couldn’t possibly stand another widget, I’ve found the success of several businesses in an industry, even in the same direct market, can spell opportunity. To that I say nonsense. If people are already spending money on a product then two-thirds of your work is done.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 20, 2022

If someone discovers your book, John, your new one coming out, you know, directly marketing, I'm going to, if someone reads that and loves that book, what are they gonna do? They're gonna explore more books on marketing and it will only facilitate more reading. It was very competitive. I wanted to destroy the competition as an author.

Marketing 87

Marketing eCommerce Audio Networking 87

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

The best we could think about RM+RP+RT is what Direct Marketers (people who sent you all those letters in postal mail!). For the sake of your business, your employees and the almighty (/Jesus/Krishna/Allah/Sun God/your favourite). Then you would just spray and pray (a strategy the continues to date and reduces the glory of TV!).

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Analytics Marketing Mobile Audience 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. I’m about to show you a slide show. I’m the content creator. Create a product to sell.

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