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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. In our final year of school we decided to start a website development company, which we named NBN Designs (Nothing But Net), for no other reason than UNC-Charlotte had a great basketball team at the time.

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10 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Leverage Networking in Business

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Charlotte Ang. Thanks to Charlotte Ang, Fixwerks ! #3- Cast a wide, net the more people you know the more referrals you can get down the road. Easily 90% of our business is referral based, so I could go on and on about this. Thanks to Jordan Ostroff, Jordan Law Fl ! #2- 2- Grow our customer base.

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NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing

Feld Thoughts

Several years ago on a Saturday I found myself at Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte. I had gone for a three hour run early in the morning on a beautiful spring day in Charlotte and my mind was wandering all over the place. These young women were completely net native. Hack on open source projects. And inspired.

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The Impact of Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs and Customer Lifetime Value

Duct Tape Marketing

CLV is the net value of a customer to the company–how much money a customer spends during their entire relationship with you, minus the costs of products and services they buy. They wanted to clear a net profit of 20% ($30). CAC is how much you spend to acquire a customer. So we talked about the lifetime value of a customer.

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Remembering old times

Jeff Hilimire

And then this past weekend I was out in Snellville and realized I was about to drive past our first official office (the first “office” was our dorm room at UNC-Charlotte and our second “office” was my mother’s basement.) So I swung in and checked it out. Yeah, its kind of a dump now.

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (3/12)

Jeff Hilimire

But before we jump into it, make sure you saw my first two tips: #1 – Have a long-term focus #2 – Dream big, but start small (the 48in48 story) Storytime Once upon a time, in a land not-so-faraway, Raj Choudhury and I started a little web design business in the dorm room at UNC-Charlotte. Danny and I quit our jobs.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

This is also known as the Net Promoter Score (NPS) question. Charlotte’s Web: Brand Perception. The Stanley Brothers (Charlotte’s Web) – Image courtesy of LA Weekly. Charlotte’s Web , a manufacturer and retailer of high-quality CBD hemp oil, must walk a fine line.

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