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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it.

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Tech Support *is* sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You probably think of "tech support" as the bottom of the food chain. After all: Tech support deals with insane customers. Tech support answers the phone; a job even salesmen don't want. Tech support keeps angry customers at bay while having no power to effect change. Tech support is sales. That's sales.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business owners I know periodically introduces new products and services to sustain growth, fight off competitors, or take advantage of new technologies. New offerings which build your brand will increase acceptance and sales of all solutions, not just the new one. Target audience may be limited or new due to price.

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Pandemic Technology Transformations for Start-up Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Employing social distancing, new health and safety measures in the workplace and other commercial environments, and the imposition of travel restrictions have bought about this so-called “new normal” and new pandemic tech innovations as well. Many SMEs are now using Zoom as the primary pandemic tech tool. Integrating Zoom and Slack.

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30 Entrepreneurs Say Which is Their Favorite Technology Innovation

Hearpreneur

New technological innovations are coming up every now and then. My favorite technology innovation has got to be the cloud. Recent developments in brain mapping technologies have simplified that challenging task. My favorite technological innovation would be Artificial Intelligence otherwise known as (A.I). 1- The cloud.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.