Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. They are all about how customers broadcast their pleasure or unhappiness to others. Customer upsell: Sell more to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. It’s more about which customers broadcast their pleasure or unhappiness to others. Customer upsell, selling more to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “ word of mouth ” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. They won’t find you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. " He has one of the first books on this subject, and he breaks the process down into nine key activities, as follows: Get focused and identify goals. Measure customer response and action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These haven’t changed much over the years, but still seem to be often overlooked by business professionals and leaders in their haste to keep up with peers, competitors, and customers in today’s volatile environment. It’s amazing how quickly these activities lead to leadership or management opportunities. Loners need not apply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Social Media. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Customer support is more than handling exceptions. Your challenge is to present a total business solution to the right customer set to build your credibility and momentum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The entrepreneurs I respect actively look for the next problem, celebrate every success, and see failures as learning events. A few years ago, Safeway and other big retailers struggled with the growing problem of plastic bag cost and pollution, before realizing they could actually sell reusable cloth bags to customers, as a win to all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Here are some of the key indications that you might be a good match for a lifestyle business, for you to compare and consider against your own objectives and strengths: Enjoy interacting with customers and products every day. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Define a continuous innovation culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These days, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. It means you may not actually see today’s reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Practice active listening, and accept reality quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

These holidays, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Practicing these will ensure greater productivity, less stress, more job satisfaction, and an improved overall sense of well-being. It means you may not actually see today’s reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It’s been happening for some time, but business changes, accelerated by the recent pandemic, have highlighted the need for all of us to review our positions, image, and satisfaction at work. Use the same mindset with new team members and customers. Humility may be a virtue in some realms, but not today in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

The challenge for each of you is to get it handled quickly and effectively, without losing the trust of constituents , as well as customers. However, very quickly after everyone has their assignment as is actively working, you need to let them do their jobs without questioning every step. Always be prepared to accept responsibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead. Set goals and celebrate progress and results.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. Meet the tech company that wants to make you even more addicted to your phone.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s a far cry from the way other car manufacturers deal with customer feedback. But, while the customer is king, what does it mean for the state of product development at Tesla? It does this by recording suspicious activity with the 360 degree dashboard camera. Very active. million followers. Just like that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Good managers improve focus and productivity through effective communication and coordinating disparate activities. In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

If you see a customer service problem hurting the company, step up proactively with a proposal to fix it. Initiate activities that improve your chances of being the chief’s backup. You attitude and the clothes you wear assert your authority to subordinates, peers, the media, and customers. Pay attention to your image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Remember that your goal is to build a successful business, and customers are in control of making that happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. Decide what is most important and get those activities in the bucket before the week begins. We all know people who are extraordinarily busy, but never seem to accomplish anything. That’s productivity.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Such a format is convenient for traditional search methods, where specific fields can be queried directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2021

Unfortunately the comments you don’t hear from customers, business partners, and peer leaders are the ones that do you the most damage. Evidence continues to mount that companies with trusted leaders, such as Zappos , tend to outperform others in financial results, as well as team satisfaction, by as much as three to one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

If you find yourself and your business in one of these categories, it’s time to heed the steps I recommend to every business client today: Ask for a good review from every satisfied customer. Customers these days expect to get asked, and often need that little extra push to put a testimonial on your website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

For example, while social media exchanges are now quick and simple, they miss all the body language and emotion that many believe constitute more than fifty percent of human relations and communication. The result is that even highly engaged workers can get results without a sense of fulfillment or satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Define a continuous innovation culture.

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Tips Technical Review Organization Social Media 126

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. Social Media. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Practice active listening, and accept reality quickly.

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