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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country.

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6 Ways To Build And Capitalize On Personal Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive your own performance. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.

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7 Leadership Failures To Abolish In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, leadership is best demonstrated while not in a position of authority, and is a skill that must be sharpened every day of your life. The leadership one is setting a poor example by your own actions (“Do as I say, not as I do.”) In business, when you are making mistakes, it’s costing you time and money.

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8 Team Member Types Test Your Entrepreneur Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars.

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “ Mediocre Mike was a card shark. So what does any of this have to do with leadership failure? And Mike shook off the losses as a necessary cost of doing business. His operational leaders turned blind eyes to cost overruns. It was in his blood.

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The True Cost Of Poor Leadership

YoungUpstarts

While poor management has a financial cost, it also has a wider detrimental cost to a business, as well as individuals. Bad leadership can be the result of insufficient training, an inadequate understanding of the business, and weak management skills. Poor leadership is often compounded by poor communication.

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6 Keys To Maximizing Your Own Leadership Performance

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive your own performance. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.