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7 Growth Choices That Can Make or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

This experience includes browsing your website, social media interactions, the sales process, as well as your support and follow-up. Totally new and risky products will dilute your focus, and may confuse existing customers. For example, you may have a product, but not a strong distribution channel.

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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

Startup Professionals Musings

These include recognized social media influencers, industry experts, and even early customers. Don’t confuse and dilute your potential customer base by weakly trying to appeal to all. By actively participating in social media and customer support channels, you can differentiate by building advocates and loyalty.

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Why Successful Startups Often Have A Pair Of Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, they may fear team leadership as a burden, or a potential dilution of their ownership. Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies.

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5 ways to deal with a social media crisis

The Next Web

Anyone active on Facebook, Twitter, or the likes will have seen at least one social media crisis unfold. Social media is your friend, despite what happened. Use your own social media channels to get your message out in any way that best helps give your side of the story. Act fast but don’t panic!

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Can You Actually Make Money With Social Media?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

You can now watch all three of the content videos here (this is my affiliate link, but you don’t have to buy anything – I strongly recommend you watch the first video, it’s good stuff – especially in the second half, which changed my mindset about social media) – Social Profit Formula Videos from Don Crowther.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. If traditional media companies adapt, so much the better.

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How to Create an Effective Branding Campaign That Inspires a Movement

ConversionXL

Its content style guide ensures branding campaigns have the same tone of voice across all marketing channels. . Use your marketing strategy to ensure campaigns never dilute your brand perception. And it uses it consistently, in its logo, across its website in images, text, and CTAs, and on social media. Take Mailchimp.

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