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7 Strategies To Prepare For The Next Customer Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply. They are not hesitant to engage the crowd through social media and sites like Yelp to drive you from the marketplace.

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7 Tips For Success With Today’s Demanding Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply. They are not hesitant to engage the crowd through social media and sites like Yelp to drive you from the marketplace.

Demand 71
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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

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7 Tips For Success With Today’s Demanding Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply. They are not hesitant to engage the crowd through social media and sites like Yelp to drive you from the marketplace.

Demand 56
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6 Marketing Specifics That Apply To Every New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t dumb it down for social media. Many entrepreneurs fear giving away their very best insights, strategies, or tools via social media – it might diminish the demand and the profit. They will call you back.

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6 User-Centered Design Guidelines To Thrill Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. With the advent of interactive social media, as well as high-bandwidth video tools, there is no excuse for not involving real customers, and prospects who fit the desired demographic.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. If we ask what we could have done to mitigate some of these problems, one can easily name two.

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