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Streamline Your Sales Process With These Five Proven Techniques

YoungUpstarts

A lot of startups fail within the first few months due to some commonly acknowledged culprits – picking a bad time to scale, running out of operating capital, lack of a steady customer base, high customer acquisition cost, and low to nonexistent repeat business. by Lewis Robinson. Refine Your Sales Process.

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How to Manage Supply Chain Planning Like a Pro

YoungUpstarts

This integral element of most businesses is woven through every aspect of operations. Too many startups mistakenly believe that their “widget” comes from one source. Are you aware of the hidden and indirect costs in your operations and your supply chain? Don’t Forget the Hidden and Indirect Costs.

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6 Awesome Tools To Make Your Startup Smarter In 2020

YoungUpstarts

But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. There are a plethora of such tools available online and they’re customized to suit different operations. It is a customizable, widget-driven, API-first community platform that enables users to discuss and connect under brand names.

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4 Key Components Of Every New Business Financial Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule of thumb, most viable businesses need a gross margin above 50 percent, even on wholesale prices, to cover operational expenses and survive as a business. Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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3 Tips For Treating Your Business Data With The Respect It Deserves

YoungUpstarts

by Penny Garbus, co-author of “ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Much of what keeps a business operating and profitable lies not on a store shelf but deep inside a computer system, where critical information such as inventory, customer mailing lists, employee files, sales records and vendor information is stored.

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How and Why to Manage Cash Flow

Up and Running

You think about what it’ll cost to manufacture your widgets, how many widgets you can sell, and how much you can sell them for. If you buy a widget for $100 and sell it for $150, you should end up with $50 profit, and you have $150 in the bank. Sell a widget . And so on … sell three widgets . How does this happen?

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

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We see our Red Widgets Ad Group in the Products Campaign has the lower CTR of the two, and is less than half the CTR of the day before. Dig into the keywords in the Red Widget Group to find out which ones are generating impressions without clicks. Get extremely familiar with your business’s operation days.

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