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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

Many entrepreneurs use the phrase “It’s not personal; it’s business” to justify keeping their customers at arm’s length. This made it relatively easy for entrepreneurs to stay aloof. To remain relevant, entrepreneurs must use technology to stay close — but not too close. Risk getting personal.

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Eight Ways To Get Past The Fear Of “No”  And Start Risking Rejection

YoungUpstarts

Rejection (after rejection, after rejection) can still lead to success… if you keep going. The problem is many entrepreneurs aren’t willing to take that risk. Entrepreneurs miss out on opportunities because they give up after one ‘no’ when the second or third or sixth request might have yielded a ‘yes.’. The lesson?

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5 Effective Ways to Expand Your E-Commerce Startup

Women Entrepreneurs Can

While there’s no arguing that e-commerce growth will continue to surge, taking steps to expand your e-commerce startup might be a bit challenging, especially because so many entrepreneurs have taken up the opportunity. The more extensive your email list of leads, the more potential business you will have.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

Next, Dan Stewart from Safety Harbor, Florida, pitched Happy Grasshopper , an email-based referral marketing service. Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

I wrote “ The Risk Advantage “ to help entrepreneurs face the many situations, predicaments, and crises they’ll encounter during their lives and to help formulate their leadership style and business strategy. That’s why most entrepreneurs (understandably) want to keep some cash in reserve for a rainy day.

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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

YoungUpstarts

All over the country, there are entrepreneurs — or wannabe entrepreneurs — who are just like Steve. ” When you’re an entrepreneur, there are a million “If I just had…”s, and often, they center around technology. However, for many entrepreneurs, the solution to avoiding the risk of reality is to keep planning.

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Nine Risks You Must Take (And Keep On Taking) To Build A Sustainable Business

YoungUpstarts

by Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “ Imagine you stand at the edge of an enormous cliff, a parachute strapped to your back. This is the dilemma entrepreneurs face every day. The committed entrepreneur doesn’t allow a tight money situation to stop her.

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