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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We'll have an email address so people can communicate with us without picking up the phone.". For example, here's what the founder's ( Josh Baer ) availability looks like: Instead of trading emails with lists of available time-slots, Josh just sends the link to this page and the other person uses the product to schedule a meeting.

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Twitter Link Roundup #275 – Fascinating Stuff for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

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The 5 Worst Email Subject Lines in the World crowdspring.co/1cKfPF6 The 5 Worst Email Subject Lines in the World crowdspring.co/1cKfPF6. I Was a Human Guinea Pig: 6 Self-Experimentations crowdspring.co/1B4GoAz. Strategies to Build a Fun Work Culture That’s Also Productive crowdspring.co/1F6S299. crowdspring.co/1R0IhAj.

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Why Customer Experience Is the Key to an Amazing Business

Duct Tape Marketing

So I started urging them and now anyone who will listen to choose a customer about once a quarter and make them a customer experience guinea pig of sorts. Have them keep a journal and respond to every email. Give them an awesome deal of some special treatment in return for their feedback on every element of your business.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. Thanks to Twitter, I just discovered your blog. You'll be on my regular list now.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

of endlessly trying different brands of lashes and adhesive (which hurt my business profits) and unfortunately my clients were the Guinea pigs who were getting inconsistent results because of it (which hurt business profits even more!). I was tired. Everyone seemed to be providing a safe place to volunteer.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

The user walks slowly while talking to clients, writing proposals, checking email, or any other activity one would normally do at a desk. New York startup Workmarket has a pullup machine right at the front of their office, with a list by it of the records set by different people who have visited the office. - Chair photo credit: watz ).

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Transcript of How to Create Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

I wanted to make myself the guinea pig. How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? There was a point in my business where I felt like all I did was delete email. It really allows you to take back control of your inbox, of your email. To start from scratch because I wanted to do it pure. A hundred, a thousand?