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5 Tasks Startups Can Outsource to Professionals

Women Entrepreneurs Can

While you could hire a marketing firm to do the work for you, this can get expensive very quickly. Instead, consider hiring an independent contractor or consultant with experience with social media, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, etc. Marketing and Sales. Visual Content Creation. Online Reputation Management.

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Stop Fighting What You Don’t Love And Outsource The Nonessential

YoungUpstarts

Versatility and self-sufficiency are great traits for entrepreneurs, but once you start working on your business (rather than in it), you need to have the capacity to step back and oversee all of the moving parts, rather than let yourself get bogged down with technical support and answering the phone. Web Hosting. Transactions.

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Guide To Develop A Highly Successful Online B2B Marketplace

ReadWriteStart

You should also be sure to offer customer service and technical support, so customers remain happy and continue using your marketplace. You can either hire a web development company or use a platform like WordPress to create your site. Setting Up Your Website. Consider SEO.

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Scaling-up: Turning the corner from starving startup to growing company

The Next Web

Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. Listen carefully and humbly to your users, using social media channels to provide real-time technical support. Social media is now an indispensable factor.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Ill start with four general guidelines for how to proceed with a hiring decision.

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

blog.wepay.com

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. As the only non-developer at WePay, it’s pretty tempting to become technically helpless. Programmers !=

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup « WePay.com

blog.wepay.com

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. As the only non-developer at WePay, it’s pretty tempting to become technically helpless. Programmers !=