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How to Increase eCommerce Sales — Growth Tips from Industry Experts

Up and Running

Once your business is up and running and as new customers buy your products, referrals will start rolling in organically. Think about it — your customers will likely showcase your products to their friends and family, and your brand name will come up in conversations and recommendations. Because SEO or “organic” traffic is cheap.

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How to Establish a Relationship Funnel for Long-Term Business Growth

Up and Running

Conversely, relationship funnels concentrate on establishing long-term connections with clients through establishing trust and providing value. When writing your business plan , consider that customer relationships begin the moment a consumer learns about your company. Why do you need a relationship funnel?

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. Give me granularity. Great stuff! Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics.

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What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management Explained

Up and Running

Like anything in business, this means that if you aren’t at least considering CRM systems as part of your strategy then you’re already behind. In its simplest form, a CRM will help you increase customer retention, which in turn increases profits. However, this impact can be felt throughout your organization in the following ways.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain The Role A Coach Plays in Their Business

Hearpreneur

They can also help in cultivating the employees’ motivation and retention. 6- Help take my business to the next level. My coach taught me everything from leveraging, negotiating contracts, structuring my business plan so I can solve peoples’ problems. Thanks to Aaron Simmons, TestPrepGenie ! #6-

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Why Startups Should Use Content Marketing from Day One

The Startup Magazine

You may also need to adjust your business plan based on the commerce needs and wants of your demographic. With a solid business plan and content marketing strategy, you can identify your demographic, sell to them and strategize how to grow this base. Or, awareness, consumer consideration, conversion and retention.

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Cannabis Marketing Without Paid Ads: How to Do it Right

Up and Running

When writing such posts, be sure that your tone and style of writing is helpful, descriptive, fun and conversational. And when done right, it can have a remarkable impact on customer engagement and retention. But email marketing is NOT as straightforward for cannabusinesses as it is for most businesses today.

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