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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

As disruption examples , the rise of ride sharing, e-commerce, and social media were clearly driven by changing customer trends, more than technology. Nordstrom “remembers” the sizes of customers, and Chanel follows up sales with handwritten notes from associates. Kearney consultant and now leader of his own consulting practice.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. com What it does: Gathers, tracks, analyzes and reports on what people are saying about a brand, on blogs and through comments and posts on social media sites.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. But you can't beat yourself up because you didn't have a good email address as before you started, or you didn't have their social media counts. Go get them. Today is day 10.

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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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Satisfying Your Customers Need for Speed Today

Duct Tape Marketing

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. Next time I'm in Indiana or so, Appreciate. John Jantsch (22:20): Yep.

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8 Ways to Help Your Tweets Go Viral

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It’s the dream of every business to have a social media campaign that goes viral. At Indiana University, Bloomington, researchers compared 120 million actual retweets with a random computer model and found very little difference in the way ideas propagated. So, how can you get your Tweets to go viral too? Randomness.

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