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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It was during the New York shows that I met our first showroom who was based in Atlanta. In reality, we never actually left our Atlanta showroom as we were always very pleased with their performance.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Our long-term goal is to ensure that the best people can consistently find their calling within the HOF family, including identifying logical next career progression opportunities across different HOF companies when a rising employee does not have a logical next move within her current employer. CB Insights’ Ava is a version of this.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta. It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.). If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Disaster Recovery Plan – Where to Begin?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Communication – Have a Plan: Once a detailed disaster plan has been developed, the plan should be distributed to employees and discussed as a team. The roles and responsibilities of key employees during an emergency. Training: Training all employees on the plan will ensure the procedures are effectively accomplished.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

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Apple employees before a product launch) or a subset of consumers (e.g., For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. Insiders, Aspirants, and Outsiders. Image source ). The moment a secret exists, it creates Insiders.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

Apple employees before a product launch) or a subset of consumers (e.g., For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. Insiders, Aspirants, and Outsiders. Image source ). The moment a secret exists, it creates Insiders.

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The Best Free Email Marketing Tool for Startups and Small Businesses

Up and Running

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns.

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