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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Target market: Who is your ideal patient? Here’s a brief example: The problem : There is a lack of affordable pediatric and gynecological care available in coastal areas of Lane County, Oregon. Target market. A formal market analysis can help verify that there’s a need for your particular practice in your intended location. .

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SWOT Analysis Examples

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Sedibeng’s primary market advantages are their company culture, consistent “quality” branding, traditional brew recipes, and commitment to rural distribution. Building and learning how to manage a basic website could be a huge marketing asset for Sedibeng. Sales channel relationships. Create a marketing plan.

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What You Can Do To Make Customer Care Your Most Effective Marketing Strategy

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by Andrew Tillery, Marketing Director for MAP Communications. What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? However, you probably still haven’t made this the core focus for your marketing strategy. Would you do it? Of course you would. The question is, why?

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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

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One of the judges (me) challenges the entrepreneurs that their numbers — particularly the margins, meaning gross margin (sales less costs of sales) and profit before taxes (gross margin less operating expenses) are way too high. There’s a projector with PowerPoint, a moderator, a table of judges, and just a few spectators.

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Technology For Scaling Your Real Estate Company

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Harness email marketing to stay in touch with interested buyers. Email marketing platforms like MailChimp and Constant Contact are very easy to use and offer a cost-effective way to share future listings to buyers. The post Technology For Scaling Your Real Estate Company appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process). The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.

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3 Things I Look for in Angel Investing

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Our group is reviewing companies and will award a six-figure investment in May at an event held May 13 in Eugene, Oregon, my home town. Product/market fit and prospects. I borrowed this term from Market is really the thing that matters , by Marc Andreessen, which I summarized a couple of years ago now in Market Fit is Critical.