ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

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. Girish Mathrubootham, from Chennai, India, discussed FreshDesk , a full-featured social customer support SaaS offering targeted toward small businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

By Ron Kaufman, author of “ Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet ”. For example, “The customer is always right” is often wrong. “Oh, This is as true internally as it is with customers. Service Communications. Voice of the Customer. an employee asks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the So Why Does This Matter? the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest. What’s Different.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. The organization is based in Portland, Maine. Our entire community is honored to be helping Reverb.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Here’s why: Except for early adopters of technology and diehard environmental customers, most people aren’t buying a fuel type, they’re buying transportation. The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer).

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re Now we’re a bonafide and recognized medium-sized company that serves customers throughout our State and employs many arborists and serves so many homes and businesses. Tell us in the comments below.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Breweries don’t really win customers with one beer, but they can lose customers with one beer.”. Relationships.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2015

How to Make Community the Secret To Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The word community has been with us for centuries. A town, a church, a school, a collection of hobbyists, have all long been identified as communities. A community, as described above, can serve a business in a number of ways.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. I spoke with wife and husband team Kristen and Sergio Castillo, whose cat cafe, Purringtons, is set to open in Portland at the end of January. Get Your Customers to Do It For You.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Her background includes 20 years of HR, customer service and business leadership – an ideal balance of human capital and business perspective. In her current role, MJ works to align the customer and employee experience with PEMCO’s brand aspirations. It’s woven into our workplace, marketplace and communities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It’s all the businesses that are shifting their relationships with their customers to be a ongoing relationship based on a subscription. And you need to then decide again and again with each renewal that it is still providing value to you, so that’s a different mindset on behalf of the customer. Now, it sounds esoteric.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Stephen goes out and talks to customers, while also managing emails and doing marketing events. Stephen: I’m out on the floor a lot, going around to talk with customers. We added an employee-of-the-month program, we work on providing meals and beers, and trips to Portland, but retaining people is still a tough one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Welcome to our fair city. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Know your customers and your financials. Funding a brewery.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Tip #1: Really listen to your customer. But if you go out of your way to understand what your customer did and didn’t like, and you take active steps to fix what went wrong, you’ll have a customer—and a brand ambassador—for life. That little piece of chocolate says to the customer “I like you and I value you.”.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Even a mere 1 second delay can result in “11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions.”. What’s “normal” for us is often alien to our customers. If we’re actually going to sell products, we need to quit thinking about what’s cool to us, and focus on what customers actually need.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. It was the community college course I took. I thought, “Oh yeah, I should try and sell it,” and I didn’t really know what that meant.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

It was in a part of Portland that was up and coming and I always loved serving small businesses. John Jantsch: Fast forward to today, I mean, 500 employees, thousands and thousands of customers, all kinds of accolades but it’s interesting because when you started this even in 2003 … I’ve been in business longer than that.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

And of course, supporting the your local community and local economy really is something worth doing. Black Friday is great and all, but if you’re only going to hit the big box stores, you could be missing out on a number of unique things that small businesses are offering. Small Business Saturday is tomorrow.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

Essentially this is a concept that was started on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon. One thing we’ve done this year is another extension of what I believe in – trying to give back to the community. Tell us a little bit about Bier Station. Q: What makes this place special? A: You’ve got to always stay fresh.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. Coffee ordered from Orazure is hand-roasted and then mailed the next day, guaranteeing that customers receive the beans at peak freshness.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. It’s this interesting cycle to watch as an outsider where the things that people are building, they are building for investors and not necessarily building for customers. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc And that’s not a joke.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

Klaviyo helps you build meaningful customer relationships by listening and understanding cues from your customers, and this allows you to easily turn that information into valuable marketing messages. You’re going to learn a little bit about the secret to building customer relationships. John Jantsch: What about agencies?

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