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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

And then, of course, other business owners stay aloof from customers for a different, more instinctual reason: In a digital age dominated by email and computer screens, they simply don’t know how to interact with customers face-to-face and avoid doing so at all costs. Do you wait days before responding to emails?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

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I recently looked back at some old emails during one of the rough times. My wife Kristina The Cake Girl and I are both entrepreneurs and own an Award Winning Cake and Cupcake Shop in Tampa, FL, Recently named The Sweetest Bakery in Florida in The Sweetest Bakery in America Contest.

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The Best 2 Hours I Spent On My Business

YoungUpstarts

I emailed the local start up community and introduced myself, and the guy who replied simply said “How about we meet for coffee and discuss your idea?” Many of you reading this post will think “what a great idea” and then never actually email some of the experts in their field for a meeting, because it takes guts!

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

I just emailed your article to him and recommended that he take your advice to heart. Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. Thanks for the article. I am chugging along. I am 42 years old.

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Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA

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Your Email Address: Message to the Institute: What is 5 + 1? -->. About | Mentors | Companies | Curriculum | FAQ | Partners | Apply Now. Globalizing Silicon Valley - See the Worldwide Schedule - Lead a Local Chapter. -->. Choose a city closest to you. Alexandria. Ho Chi Minh City. Los Angeles. Mexico City. Rio de Janeiro. Washington DC.

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How To Be A Reporter’s Favorite News Source

YoungUpstarts

Instead, have a professional quality face shot of yourself, and your product or book, if applicable, at the ready to email. Most images on websites have a very low resolution of about 72 dpi, which looks fine on a computer monitor, but can’t be printed on paper. The automotive writer will have no interest in gardening tips.

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5 Things You Know But Don’t Do Enough

Duct Tape Marketing

On a flight from Tampa to Tulsa (not really but I’m listening to a song from the Jayhawks by that title) I pondered the things that keep me from moving my business in the right direction, making more money and having more control and I was able to find a pattern that involved a handful of simple things that I know no one does enough.

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