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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business owners I know periodically introduces new products and services to sustain growth, fight off competitors, or take advantage of new technologies. Customers won’t buy what they can’t find or don’t understand. Customers need supporting approvals to fully benefit.

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8 Ways To Ensure Customer Interactions Are Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, as a business consultant, I often find minimal focus on improving employee engagement and assessing their customer-facing performance. For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees.

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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). Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

When it occurs, the consequences can be swift and devastating, wreaking potential havoc on a once steady stream of revenue. In the early stages, it isn’t uncommon for businesses to bank their earnings on a handful of customers (or sometimes, just one). Rarely does a customer call it quits without sending some warning signs.

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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy. What makes customer acquisition different from marketing?

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Top Tips for Improving Warehouse Productivity and Efficiency

The Startup Magazine

When these operations are efficient, companies can meet customer demand quickly and maintain stable costs. If warehouse productivity is low, companies lose not just money but credibility also. However, warehouse productivity and efficiency depend on many factors. Employee motivation is closely linked with productivity.

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Efficient Methods For Boosting Startup Revenue

YoungUpstarts

Though you may not have much to work with now, if your startup is to succeed, you must work consistently at finding and executing plans to increase your revenue. Review the Costs of Products or Services. Pricing your products and services is tricky, but could be the reason you aren’t selling as much as you’d like.

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