Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in a classic book titled simply " Social Media Metrics." He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2023

I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Top performance is more than skills and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Perceived authorities guide decision making, by investing time, resources, and activity in earning a position of influence, leading to a community of loyalists who follow their recommendations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. In his book, he couches his guidance in a real-life metaphor of his sailing trip around the world. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

After some review of available resources, I’m convinced that problem solving is a learnable trait, rather than just a birthright. For example, I remember a classic book by Penina Rybak, “ The NICE Reboot ,” that does a great job of outlining problem solving steps, honed from working with special needs youngsters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

I recently found a wealth of practical guidance on how to build a perseverance mindset and use it to overcome adversity, break through barriers, and keep moving forward to success, in a new book, “ Win When They Say You Won’t ,” by Daphne Jones. A first step is empowering yourself to achieve success and feel satisfaction from doing your job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs. Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Top performance is more than skills and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Now I see in a classic book, “ Business Models for Teams ,” by Tim Clark and Bruce Hazen, an extension of this process to down inside the venture, for teams and individuals. Key resources. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. It shows you how everyone works in synergy. Key partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

How will work productivity and quality be impacted, and what effect will it have on personal careers, job satisfaction, and work-life balance? In this context, I was pleased to find some positive guidance from real experts in a new book, “ Thrive With A Hybrid Workplace ,” by Felice Ekelman, JD, and Julie Kantor, PhD.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I was recently impressed with the detailed analysis and recommendations made on this subject in a new book, “ The Burnout Challenge ,” by Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter. Burnout occurs for many when your job demands are too many, the hours are too long, and the resources to handle them are too few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Gerber wrote a best-selling business book called The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. The Technician’s Perspective is a fragmented vision of the world, where customer satisfaction represents a series of problems to solve, with price, features, availability, and support. Well over 25 years ago, Michael E.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2023

Thus I was pleased to see the specifics offered in a new book, “ The Flexible Method ,” by James Burstall. It’s also important to make sure they have the resources and training to do their job. In addition, this pushes you and your team to be the best that you can be and brings credibility and additional resources to your challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2023

The importance and the specifics of practical team leadership were re-confirmed to me a while back in the classic book, “ Unlocked ,” by Robert S. Leadership is making sure they have resources and understand the strategy. The only real alternative is to find a cofounder who can build and lead the team, while you focus on the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2019

Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in a classic book titled simply " Social Media Metrics." Measure to see if you have an increase in revenue, a lowering of costs, and improvement in customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2022

Ed Muzio, in his classic book “ Make Work Great: Super Charge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time ,” summarized four key influences which I have also seen as follows: We are driven by peers. Our satisfaction is strongly driven by this role set. We underestimate the impact of the situation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

I saw these summarized clearly in a new book, “ BUILD ,” by a well-known entrepreneur and technologist from Silicon Valley, Tony Fadell. Provide tools and resources as required. In my experience, there are only a few basics to remember and practice. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 5/22/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this context, I was impressed with the insights provided in a new book, “ Stay Sane In An Insane World ,” by peak performance coach Greg Harden. Allocate your time and resources to customer expectations and competitor challenges. I’m fully convinced that success is all about you rather than the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

I found the tradeoffs associated with improving both the customer experience and employee experience detailed well in a new book, “ The Experience Mindset ,” by Tiffani Bova. Predictive – able to anticipate and provide resources. You will see greater productivity, and employees will have a better experience and more satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

Thus, I was happy to see my perspective solidified and detailed with real examples in a timely book, “ Mission Possible: How to Build a Business for our Times ,” by Alexandre Mars. Most aspiring entrepreneurs don’t have the resources alone to “bootstrap” or fund their new business alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people. Are you building a team yet which fits this mold? Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

These were outlined well, with some good recommendations for overcoming them, in the classic book, “ Rocket Fuel ,” by Gino Wickman and Mark C. To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 4, 2016

Robert Greenleaf may have been the first to resurrect the concept in his book published in 1970. More important, a servant leader involves employees in the process of decision–making, focusing upon the performance and satisfaction of employees. It’s a term rooted in ancient philosophy. Doesn’t sound tough or forceful enough for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see a much more complete and broader perspective of employee support recommendations in a new book, “ Employees First! ” Occupational satisfaction. I’ve always known it was much more complicated than that, but I have struggled over the years to pull together all the elements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. In his book, he couches his guidance in a real-life metaphor of his sailing trip around the world. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Hunter franchisees move on quickly, or end up owning the entire franchise system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

In a thought-provoking book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Apple and Whole Foods, were built on at least one open business principle. Shared knowledge packaging (shareability).

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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. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keeping satisfaction high. Customer upsell: Sell more to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In her classic book, “ Rookie Smarts ,” Liz Wiseman, one of the top thought leaders in business, amplifies this point as it relates to hiring and cultivating the curious, flexible, youthful mindset in keeping a mature company young and competitive, as well as keeping experienced employees more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Gather your resources before scaling the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. Outsourcing vendors hire, train, and manage their own employees, using their own human resources, performance, and appraisal systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Perceived authorities guide decision making, by investing time, resources, and activity in earning a position of influence, leading to a community of loyalists who follow their recommendations.

Custom 85

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

These were outlined well, with some good recommendations for overcoming them, in the classic book, “ Rocket Fuel ,” by Gino Wickman and Mark C. To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2020

The importance and the specifics of practical team leadership were re-confirmed to me a while back in the classic book, “ Unlocked ,” by Robert S. Leadership is making sure they have resources and understand the strategy. The only real alternative is to find a co-founder who can build and lead the team, while you focus on the product.

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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. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keep satisfaction high. The challenge is to measure resources spent against return.

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