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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

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Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6 We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. These channels combined are generating hundreds of thousands of views a day, none of which we pay for. Giant channel examples are Smarter EveryDay , Mark Rober , and MKBHD.

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

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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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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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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

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Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.

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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

For the rest of us, here is my prioritized list of key strategies that I believe every business leader can benefit from as a starting point in making the current inflation economy less of a negative impact on their business, or maybe even a pleasantly surprising positive: Solicit follow-on revenue from existing customers.

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How To Turn Your Social Media Traffic Into e-Commerce Revenue

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However, the real value for an e-commerce business or any other business comes when social media traffic is converted into revenue. You can offer multiple contact channels such email addresses, web address, phone numbers, etc. In the present internet environment, you will not survive long if your site is not mobile-friendly.