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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. More and more customers today do their initial shopping on the Internet, and they won’t even believe you exist if you have no presence, or the content is stale. They won’t find you.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

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We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet. The Biggest Opportunities in Apparel.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Internet of Things: The Skills Connected Companies Look For In Young Professionals

YoungUpstarts

by Nicolas Windpassinger , author of “ Internet of Things: Digitize or Die “ Everyone speaks about the Internet of Things, by now most people know what it is and some start-ups and young professionals are knees deep in IoT. Existing jobs are changing too and some become more important.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Major leading-edge (also called bleeding-edge) products or technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or the Internet of Things (IoT), involve new concepts, time for acceptance, and focus on understanding value. This may require you selling exclusivity, doing channel development, or alliances with new partners.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Develop a product line and add alternate channels. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Others have seized on the opportunity to restructure their business for the future, eliminate marginal processes, and find new growth partners. I recommend using digital channels, including email and social media, personalized, if possible, with promotions. Selective outsourcing can save you real money.