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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. In the past, competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power, and service versus price.

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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. In the past, competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power, and service versus price.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. 2: Facebook and Direct Response/Traditional Advertising. #3:

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Twitter Link Roundup #220 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Salaries Startup Founders Pay Themselves | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1nHU2OK. Fresh Collection Of Creative Ads | Top Design Magazine – crowdspring.co/1iDk59l.

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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary. Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction.

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How To Successfully Market To Millennials

YoungUpstarts

Yet, with higher living costs and relatively lower salaries and benefits than the boomer generation, Millennials are buying products. Gender-splitting in advertising is something that socially conscious Millennials hate. Invest in design. They care about consistent branding, and they care about good design.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary. Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction.