Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At SCE Carrier Solutions, our team of experts knows that no two organizations are alike; as a result, we work with our customers to pick a fiber optic solution that best suits their particular needs. SCE Carrier Solutions works to educate our customers on selecting a fiber optic solution that best meets their demands.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Today’s education providers put a larger emphasis on internet-based learning styles to help diversify their education, which requires ever-increasing network bandwidth for schools and their students. Schools using this setup receive a full wavelength that can be customized to fit their unique network traffic needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at early startup stages. Every product or service has specific attributes that are important to key customers, like integrity and trust, or customer focus. Enchant your customers. Too much innovation will confuse your customers, and drain your resources.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Mommy bloggers are one of the most influential social networking resources that lead to increased awareness and sales. Their influence is strongest in the area of child education, products aimed at children or parents, parenting, and many other family oriented industries. Social Marketing mommy bloggers Mommy blogs'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

“Your values as you create a startup are the key to creating an enviable culture that attracts more customers,” says Ann Rhoades in her book Built on Values. I believe in a startup culture that strongly transmits the values of integrity, customer focus, and results. You are on the outside what you are on the inside.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I've been very focused on customer experience and solving problems, for everything from homeowners to large organizations. That's probably our biggest issue now, which is educating consumers and homeowners about all of the different issues in home renovation, and helping them to understand those issues. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad – all free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Educational institutions also have to deal with strict budgetary constraints and have an increased need for secure networks. Educational institutions are notorious for maximized use of limited resources, and large schools are no exception. Managing a school comes with its own unique set of network challenges. Increased Security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Content is still king, so do the proper homework on what you blog, and the quality of the messages you deliver via social media. Assess and commit the resources required. Then set your goals. Implement metrics and analytics.

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Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

In 2020, the average education sector data breach cost $7.1 Since companies have to worry less about threats from other networks or users outside of their organization, this frees up resources to invest in addressing other security risks. . million dollars. This type of setup helps protect against breaches and outside security threats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. No matter how well-educated you are, and how certain you are that you understand all the nuances of a business area, it is a good idea to work in a similar business for a few months to get a feel for the market and observe the unwritten rules before taking the plunge.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

Connected classroom technology can also help customize the learning experience for each student, making lessons more effective. Artificial intelligence in the educational field (AIEd for short) isn’t new. Artificial Intelligence (AI). High-Speed Fiber Networks. Network connectivity enables all other connected classroom technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

I’m talking about volunteering to be on industry panels for visibility, participating in startup weekends for education, and talking to groups of distributors or potential customers on technology trends. With all the ads vying to get your customers’ attention, it’s hard to stand out. Startup market research and focus groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

You need a constant stream of ideas for scaling and expanding, with a realistic understanding of the costs and resources required. An advisor knows what to look for, and sees what your customers see. Able to extrapolate the business. A successful business never stands still. Has the contacts you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Don’t start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, “friending” on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationship. It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. That means continual focus and change based on the existing customer base and existing competitors, as well as new opportunities for growth. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Role of College Education. Problem She is Solving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Your startup, for example, will more likely see and understand sooner the needs and wants of a larger and more diverse customer base. You as the entrepreneur will thus have access to a broader pool of potential investors, customers, vendors, and expertise. Diversity will likely strengthen team culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. This week is National Small Business Week in the US, so it’s a good time to celebrate your successes, and allow the rest of us to acknowledge your dedication and innovations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Unless your volumes are in the millions or higher, the difference between manufacturing cost and customer price better be 50% or greater. That should be true even if your customer is really a distributor. Margin is everything. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. Next comes sales volume by channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Sales is simply defined as income from customer purchases of goods and services, minus the cost associated with things like returned or undeliverable merchandise. Cost of customer acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Don’t start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, “friending” on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationship. It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

Sites like MySpace already allow teens to customize their home base with graphics, blogs, and music to make it more attractive to their peers – that’s marketing. Even if you are not sure that your child is a budding entrepreneur, there are several practical reasons to introduce him or her to the basics of business.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers. It has links to supporting web site and resources. The plans range up to approximately $190.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

According to Kaleio founder & CEO, Jim Riley, “This partnership marks a significant step in us becoming an invaluable resource for college students and working-class professionals to not only find and apply for job openings or internships, but to also leverage the power of their network and others within their targeted industry.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. Customer service is free.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

At some point, it may be time to replace or supplement your current partner to ensure you’re delivering the quality and range of services your customers need. SDN and NFV will relocate resources from the corporate data center to the cloud. Carriers are already well-educated on changes and aware of the type of support they need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting. Kanye West. Let's recap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

We need instant access to the most important of all resources: current contact info. There are hundreds of other alternatives and add-ons out there, like Quickbooks Customer Manager, Personal Information Manager, Beyond Contacts, and Goldmine. That’s just wrong. Commercial software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

Improve customer service. Make sure all employees are empowered to provide the same customer service they would want for themselves and their own business. A constant increase in the quality of products and services, including more innovation and creativity, all lead to a healthier business.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. From day one we focused on customers. Since then we’ve iterated on trying to provide our customers what they wanted next.

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