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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

While they are looking, you can benefit with new services or an expanded product line. Also, you must focus on business model innovations that cut costs for your customers, such as self-service, un-bundling your pricing, and selling directly to the customer. Outsource functions outside your core competency.

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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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6 Mindset Factors Turn Constraints Into Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Many companies these days start with a single online-only purchase model, but later move to providing subscription services and freemium alternatives. Outsourcing of manufacturing is another option. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/19/2023 Expand your thinking to add additional solutions.

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