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How to Make a Real Social Media Customer Connection

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. Guide customers to the right social media channel.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

Startup Professionals Musings

Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions. Building and maintaining a winning work culture is no longer just a function of the office.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

I also blog at [link] and you can find me on twitter: @gilbola. It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself. I have shied away from taking favorites in my blog or anywhere public.