YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2014

This hurts productivity and profit. High productivity. Research and market results have proven that dignity, respect, pride — and the sense of trust those feelings engender — create real-world returns and measurable increases in productivity. When you find both in one company, you’ll have a highly productive workforce.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. We find talking points that others may miss, and offer a unique social media angle for our clients.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. This is true for small non-manufacturing businesses to large scale production and manufacturing. Lewis Robinson is a business consultant specializing in social media marketing, CRM, and sales.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We closed a $16.5

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Products that require a high degree of behavior change are doomed to fail. What does it take to build products your customers love to use? What separates a wildly successful product from one that fails to gain traction? Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

The CMO-CIO divide is exacerbated by the rise of web commerce and social media. After all, the share of marketing that goes through digital channels — through the web and social media, on smartphones and tablets — is growing like crazy. But still, it’s only part of the story. These must be grabbed or they’re lost.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

He is right, and to his credit Paul saw the importance of customer experience and wrote about this in 2001. The criticism that CEM is a business strategy more than a product category holds a lot of water, but with few exceptions the entire enterprise software category reflects business strategies that are enhanced by technology?

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” The reality: you and your target investors are in the social media matrix whether you like it or not. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

When the products you sell are also available from thousands of other vendors at the same or lower prices, how do you differentiate your business and convince customers to buy from you? It has always been difficult to stand-out in a crowded market. Smart companies surprise their customers when customers least expect surprises.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

.” That’s what Peter Drucker said and I think a lot of people took that to mean that you had to create a company that disrupted an entire industry and you should be looking for ways to innovate on your products and services like nobody ever thought about, but I really think it was misunderstood. That’s important, right?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

They don’t require expensive training or degrees, fancy equipment, or lots of materials, space, or product. While some Etsy businesses have a cost component associated with starting (think jewelry making and other crafts where materials are involved), there are some products that can be sold on Etsy that involve very minimal startup costs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. I'd be curious what you are doing with social media for a logistics company.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since we enhanced the product, adding 24/7 Service, automation, and Green Earth and a “we care” factor, we added Care Cleaners and the name is OXXO Care Cleaners. Tell us about your products and services. The first OXXO Care Cleaners opened in 2001, and there are now more than 50 locations worldwide. How do you help clients?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. The table below maps the type of software in China to their global equivalents in each product category in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. Google retreated to Hong Kong and Baidu took its place.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2014

Back in 2001, Consumer Reports put out a study that revealed the average American was consciously exposed to roughly 247 marketing messages daily, yet only really noticed around half of them. For example, “How to Write for Social Media and Double Your Click-Through Rates in Thirty Days”. Why is this the case? Conclusion.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. social entrepreneurship. social media. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Small Business Blogs. New Localism.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Hand reared, growing into a cheeky, unique little character, full of personality and attitude… what better name for our product than ‘Oska. The name for my independent film production company, Corner Piece Productions, was inspired by a motif of puzzle pieces in our first feature, West of Her.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. The table below maps the type of software in China to their global equivalents in each product category in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. Google retreated to Hong Kong and Baidu took its place.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2014

But with increasingly commoditized products and services, shrinking margins, and copycat competitors we need to look deeper. Best practices tell small businesses to be more active on their website, blog more, use social media, etc. Jack Welch, grew General Electric 4,000% as CEO 1981 – 2001.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. That’s how we react and give them the best product that we can. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. .” 5) Market Downturn.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Meanwhile, Google has been rolling out subtle, smart user-interface streamlining of its remaining suite of products, from Google Docs to the publishing back-end for Blogger. Since Page took Google’s reins in April, the pace of change and innovation at the company has been truly breathtaking.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Reply Delete flyingnome Aug 15, 2010 05:30 PM Try to make a product that is just as easy to sell to a technical co-founder as it is to a VC or Angel. The Importance of Using Social Media to Find Talen. Reply Delete Add comment Load more. Newer Post.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. If youre looking for funding for a prelaunch product or service, youll need a to be a very interesting person [or someone] with deep expertise in your field," Roberts wrote in a guest post on Mashable.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Sometimes it makes sense to insulate entrepreneurs from pressure to make money while they build their products, Mr. Siegel said.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. And really in PR, the best media coverage starts with the basic pitch. When I launched my social media consultancy in 2010, I knew I wanted to incorporate my name.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2012

You’re asking them right away to log on with their social media account, but don’t give any reasons why they should do it. I feel the social media buttons not only distract, but also serve as a negative social proof (hardly anyone has Liked or +1′d). Goal: Sell the product. geeksdating101.com.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In other words, interaction with high-valence emotional content drives engagement , at least with social media. You’ve probably heard of the famous BMW campaign from 2001. Every brand touchpoint is hilarious, from their homepage to their product copy to their packaging: Another common place for humor is 404 pages.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

For the first time since 2001, PC sales were lower that they were the previous year. Social Media: with responsive design, the URLs visitors encounter are the same regardless whether they´re browsing with a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Maxatec is company that offers POS & EPOS systems, mobile and barcode products.

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