Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Change, acceptance, and trust become more difficult as you get deeper into the fabric of a community. Hyperlocal in New York City is different from hyperlocal in Kansas. External investors tend to focus on products rather than services. You need local partners and relationships for credibility.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Good post by @micah with tips for entrepreneurs demoing a product/service to investors – [link]. Time to move to Kansas City for faster Internet speeds? What Don Corleone Could Learn from @GuyKawasaki – [link]. 7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications – [link]. – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2018

Ryan Shelton was dispassioned by skincare products that were out on the market. Educated in Biochemistry, Dr. Shelton went on to receive his Masters from the University of Kansas. His innovative outlook within the industry has allowed for him to deliver outstanding results, elevating a buzz around the effectiveness of the products.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2014

If your community allows flyers to be placed around town, use them. Roughly 76 percent of customers purchase more products based on a sales associate’s recommendation. For example, you don’t need a fax number anymore unless your business still depends on it. They’re an effective marketing strategy, and they’re simple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

I live in Kansas City, Missouri. In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. John Jantsch: So if somebody was in your shoes or just even somebody like myself. I have clients in Canada and different places.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

So it could be a sweeping turn, like a new product launch or, you know, refocusing your company, or it could be a minor turn like, uh, or a less sweeping turn like who you hire or who you fire or how you price your products. Steve McKee (12:47): That's right. And the same is true in business. John Jantsch (12:51): Yeah.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. Six years in business later, we continue to grow.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 3, 2013

You can live in a tent in a cornfield in Kansas and do business. Businessweek declared Poquoson as one of the safest communities in Virginia. Actually, it’s Bolinas, Olema, Inverness and Point Reyes Station, four towns that make up the community of Point Reyes. You can work anywhere, any time. Point Reyes, California.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friends and Kansas Citians Casey and Sloane Simmons, co-founders of a store called Stuff , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome American Express. That’s just a true story.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2019

All of our meetings, all of our product launches, all of our tasks. ” Started it on the corporate side, and have just started to do it across industries and into nonprofits and educational organizations, community, cities as well. .” I’m going to show you how you can try it for free a little later.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2014

This post is one in a series of tips designed to guide small business owners through the challenges of today’s startup environment and is sponsored by Canon MAXIFY – the printer lineup designed to help small business owners increase productivity so that they can focus on everything else that matters.

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Up and Running

MAY 19, 2016

While commercial bakeries still account for the majority of bakery sales, the industry as a whole is moving away from mass-produced products and increasingly toward niche offerings like healthy baked goods and high-quality, artisanal products. Offer nutrition information for your products. Focus on locally-sourced ingredients.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The person who searches for “home remodeling ideas” is probably looking for something different than the person who searches for “best home remodeler in Kansas City,” right? Google is now more invested in ranking results based on intent. Create Hub Pages.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

I rarely get to do a Kansas City show, so, even though we’re just across town, it doesn’t get much closer than this. We are a health and wellness facility here in Kansas City. We actually have some digital products that we now do remotely with some different offices around the Midwest. Matt Scanlon: Most certainly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Smart marketers are starting to wake up to the buzz and branding power of the growing Pinterest community. Having your products raved about and pinned by the community says a lot about your brand at the moment. For example, if you are a local business create a board of “Kansas City stuff I love.”. Branding style.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Welcome to the future.

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aweissman.com

JANUARY 11, 2012

One can follow the Cash Mobs twitter account and see these things in cities such as Cleveland, Houston, Ann Arbor, Kansas City - and thats just this week. By and large, those that organize Cash Mobs are simply people trying to make a positive impact on the businesses in their communities (and have fun while doing it)! at 10:27 AM.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2020

Grant Baldwin: Meaning, John, if you and I were going to go, we’re looking for a good steak dinner, we could … Actually, you’re up in the Kansas City area. I create this one type of product for this one type of audience. I mean, people don’t want our products and services, they want the problem solved.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2015

To identify me as a promising social lead, the venue had to search for people tweeting about wedding venues, and had to narrow the search to only those in the Kansas City area using the “Near Me” tag. Alex Boyer is a Community Manager and Content Ninja for Duct Tape Marketing. Seeking out Social Media Leads.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 10, 2015

You’re likely already doing most of these things to market your own products and services. For example, Our landing page for the Founders Club targets an elite group of Kansas City businesses who benefit from choosing HipHire early. Blog Content and Community. People want to know what the product looks like.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

That’s why we founded Reco, an E-commerce store that sells reusable and sustainable alternatives to single-use products. When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. I created a couple products to help women of domestic violence with counselors and court services. Photo Credit: Amanda L.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2023

Meanwhile, purposeful growth can be aligned with profitability and philanthropy and should be the central focus for businesses as it leads to engaged and motivated team members, happier customers, and stronger communities. 05:20): And then you have your communities. Uh, you're gonna get people that build that team mentality.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

Unlike businesses, government organizations don’t sell products, and they don’t earn revenue. Government Agencies needed to help their communities build skilled labor pools to attract new industries. In Fort Riley , the Army base in Kansas, the military teamed with Kansas State University to create an advanced manufacturing program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

At Duct Tape Marketing, we only have two team members that work out of the home office in Kansas City. Check out the screen shot below to get an idea on how we use Asana: We have several projects in Asana for clients, content production, and various projects we have going on. In fact, they actually work out of a co-working space.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products. Leather and Leather Products. Lumber and Wood Products. Paper & Allied Products. Rubber and Plastic Products. Textile Mill Products. Hospitality.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Community Building Solve Problems. Women are community builders and problem solvers. Be yourself —whether you’re a Kansas farm wife, or Las Vegas Mafia wife arm candy or a NYC Trophy wife or a San Franciso Lesbian…be yourself. For the most part, us ladies our natural born communicators. Bring sexy back!

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She has written books called The Writer’s Process about the inner game of writing creatively and productively, and The Workplace Writers’ Process, something that all these content marketers probably need to know a little bit about. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Anne Janzer. Anne Janzer: Indeed, indeed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2013

And finally, I plan to introduce how a vibrant community, perhaps the highest objective of any business today, is built not through social media, but through the confluence of a specific set of socially assisted practices. Quite often the reason that drives them has little do with the actual products and services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2018

What we’ve been doing is helping other professional services business owners who were much like ourselves and did one-on-one type of work and help them to kind of make the shift to one to many so that they can free up more of their time and that they can impact a larger community of people. I mean, what does that even man anymore?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

I love it because as entrepreneurs we need to constantly be reminded that if our product does everything it does nothing. I’ve been running my own business since 1993, and there have been many instances where I’ve thought of a product or service that did not exist, and I simply jumped in and created it. 38 – Simplify.

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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. Also: booze. Founder, Tout.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It fits just as well into Gowanus, Brooklyn as it does Iowa, Kansas, and Wyoming. Over and above the numbers, he talked about the importance of consumer love for the product and also how key it was to work with great quality founders who were just as good at being people as they were at running a business. At least, I thought it was.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2015

Everyone uses search engines to find products and companies these days. Things you are doing on your website (posting new content, new products or pages) can slow your website down. Alex Boyer is a Community Manager and Content Ninja for Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Google via photopin (license). Use Landing Pages.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

John Jantsch: Well, I actually have a client in Kansas City, Missouri that did just that. How do you kind of skirt that potential sort of community scar? Sabrina Starling: The critical roles in the business that pertain to serving the top clients around the most profitable product or offering need to be filled.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

I think the tests we’re seeing with this post-product and the call to action attached to the knowledge panel, my sense in conversations with Google is that we’ll likely role out in a May timeframe and I think that will put a face on Google [00:02:41] so that people — so that business understand where they can go to ad information.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2020

I think the production values and expectations are much lower than a lot of people think. Onboarding, you need to onboard people into your product or service obviously. Across that life cycle, and I don’t care whether it’s a product or service. Maybe I’ll hit the screen recorder.” It’s faster.

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