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What You Can Do To Make Customer Care Your Most Effective Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Staying focused on a marketing strategy built around customer service is a long-game move that can be easy to get distracted from when you are pressured to make more sales now. Would you do it? Of course you would.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. And between the free and premium programs, as well as the blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, we have a community of more than 200,000 people engaged in the initiative at various levels. Happy Grasshopper.

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3 Trends Entrepreneurs Should Track

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Kaiser of Startup Biz Blog. There is great opportunity here for a wide gamut of services, including peer to peer hosting, mobile sales training , and location-based marketing. Launched in 2005, this vibrant online marketplace routinely garners several hundred million in annual sales. DIY Creativity. Urban Farming.

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Sell More By Being Human and Building Relationships

ConversionXL

Looking at not only web pages but also what can be done after the sale has been made to make customers come back again and again. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” Customers are real people. We sure did.

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Transcript of Everything You Need to Know About Podcasting

Duct Tape Marketing

John Lee Dumas: I have a couple friends in the City of Portland, Maine where I was born and raised and actually launched EOFire back in 2012 in Portland, Maine that are doing really cool regional podcast that are being listened to because people want to know what’s happening in Portland, not just in the world.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Signout startup- celebs leave voicemails for all fans to get text and dial in and listen to, hard to convert to ticket sales bc most didn’t have credit cards/money to pay even though they call 1-10 times a day.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

I’m not sure where that rule comes from, but by that measure, we should see the first self driving cars on sale in 2017. I love the train ride between Portland and Seattle, and I’ve taken it dozens of times, including just riding up and back in a single day. Trains & Hyperloops.