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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

Startup Professionals Musings

These include recognized social media influencers, industry experts, and even early customers. Don’t confuse and dilute your potential customer base by weakly trying to appeal to all. By actively participating in social media and customer support channels, you can differentiate by building advocates and loyalty.

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7 Growth Choices That Can Make or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

This experience includes browsing your website, social media interactions, the sales process, as well as your support and follow-up. Totally new and risky products will dilute your focus, and may confuse existing customers. Problems in any of these areas will stall growth. Focus on selling more to your existing customer base.

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5 ways to deal with a social media crisis

The Next Web

Anyone active on Facebook, Twitter, or the likes will have seen at least one social media crisis unfold. Social media is your friend, despite what happened. Use your own social media channels to get your message out in any way that best helps give your side of the story. Act fast but don’t panic!

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots They See Businesses Making in 2022

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8- Prioritize social commerce. Social media is obviously one of the most powerful marketing tools we have at our disposal and it is becoming a non-optional part of a strong marketing strategy. And in 2022, social commerce will follow suit. And in 2022, social commerce will follow suit. Photo Credit: Stephen Light.

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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures. Outside contracts and freelancing rapidly dilute everyone’s focus on the higher company mission and purpose.

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The 7 biggest counterintuitive social media mistakes you may be making

The Next Web

When it comes to social media, though, I try hard to learn from mistakes since they’re all saved for me to reflect on. Plus, I research and write about social media enough to have access to stats that make it easier to pick up and rectify these kind of mistakes. It’s kind of a known trait of mine. Define your goals.

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6 Management Strategies To Maintain Brand Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet every change can cause brand dilution or competition you don’t need. Pay close attention to social media and online feedback, and never respond defensively. Evaluate the brand impact of proposed market moves. The push is always on to grow your market with new geographies, new products, and new market segments.