Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Entice advocates and influencers to help you. Be proactive is reaching out for support and help. They won’t find you. Be prepared to give away to participants something memorable that they actually want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

Based on my own years of experience helping new businesses grow, I’d like to offer my own summary of some key lower-level action items, which I believe every business professional and entrepreneur can learn and practice to their advantage: Show ambition and a sense of urgency in every role. Create innovative change from existing resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Another example is Facebook , maintaining motivation with food, stock options, collaborative office space, an on-site laundry, and a competitive atmosphere that fosters personal growth and learning with great benefits. If you can do it, motivation can easily be your biggest competitive advantage. Practice every day what you preach.

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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 my experience, a great office culture will enhance every team member productivity, as well as personal satisfaction. Help your team generate team rituals and encourage networking.

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MARCH 3, 2020

Insurance and virtual reality are hardly synonymous, but Talespin’s training tools have helped claims assessors do their jobs and helped train a new generation of insurance investigators in what to look for when they’re trying to determine how much their companies are going to pay out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Competition sabotages teamwork and leaves feelings of isolation and alienation. Fortunately, both can be fixed. All of us shut down when disrespected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

You will learn to recognize that some friends and colleagues are always downers, and get their satisfaction from snuffing out your aspirations through negative thinking. You need to take responsibility for selling your value to the right people, as well as building relationships with leaders who can help you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

I expect questions about how a business works, or what are best practices, but I really can’t help you with removing doubts on your abilities, or providing a sure-fire idea and formula for success in business. This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. Is monetary return or helping others your priority? Only you can turn these questions and related decisions into your competitive edge, as well as satisfying results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. They haven’t lost interest in cutting costs, so help them understand how you are a leader in this regard. Ask your suppliers for help in maintaining margins. Customer loyalty begins with employee loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. They need to understand and be rewarded for the desired attributes, competencies, and results. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. Proactively ask for help and anticipate the need to pivot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks. No one likes useless work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2021

We all have strengths and weaknesses, so pick an initial role that highlights your strength, build a team around you that can fill in for weaknesses, and trust them to help you, until you have filled the gap. Show that others are an inspiration, not competition. Prioritize your passions in improving competence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

Lots of people are trying to help, with new twists on the age-old model of free-market capitalism that has driven businesses for the last 500 years. Starting and running any business is hard work, so the last thing you need is “success” with no satisfaction. Making a profit does not imply greed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

A good fight in business is called healthy competition. Unfortunately, feelings of envy and inferiority can quickly turn healthy competition into a knock-down, drag-out fight between people and companies, turning a win-win situation into a lose-lose one. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Old-fashioned surveys need help from new algorithms, data science, and digital bots. Make every customer experience memorable. Nurture a culture of safe and relentless learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Discourage internal team competition and silos. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers. If they see you as the competition or the enemy, you will never get winning results. You will find improved morale and satisfaction all around as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage. Entrepreneurial thinking is focused on dominating a segment of a competitive market. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Let me assure you, from personal experience, and from helping many successful as well as struggling entrepreneurs, that starting a business is hard work, and doesn’t come with any of the benefits mentioned. You are tuned into others’ emotions and want to help people. You see success as making a difference in the world around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They are not having the impact they expected, and they are not feeling the personal satisfaction they need for next level motivation. Embrace the real you as your competitive advantage. Your team will quickly sense your insights and sincerity , leading to greater impact and satisfaction by everyone.

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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. Most freelancers are already experts and confident from previous assignments, and that image will help your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Change allows everyone to be push the limits in response, to improve their opportunity for personal growth, improve the company competitive position and odds for long-term success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

Responsive – empower employees to help peers. You will see greater productivity, and employees will have a better experience and more satisfaction. In these most competitive times, I am discouraged to see that employee engagement at work, both remotely and in the office, is at an all-time low and dropping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The more successes you can help them create, the more chances they will have to interpret these wins as permanent, pervasive, and personal. Don’t confuse engagement or satisfaction surveys with culture surveys. They need to understand and be rewarded for the desired attributes, competencies, and results. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

Another example is Facebook , maintaining motivation with food, stock options, collaborative office space, an on-site laundry, and a competitive atmosphere that fosters personal growth and learning with great benefits. If you can do it, motivation can easily be your biggest competitive advantage. Practice every day what you preach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It can help you be right when, without expert help, you might fail. The more you use your new-found leadership ability, the greater will be your satisfaction and confidence. Then make the decision your own, before you use it to lead the team. Over time, your self-worth and your leadership performance will increase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Competition sabotages teamwork and leaves feelings of isolation and alienation. Fortunately, both can be fixed. All of us shut down when disrespected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Your great idea for the next Facebook may make you wealthy, but it probably won’t help the hungry. Should you start a company solo or find co-founders to help you? The answer is to look hard inside yourself, to see what makes you happy and satisfied. The founding team size dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Some market leaders have found that adding a focus on a higher cause, like helping the needy or saving the environment, can magnify your value in the eyes of customers. Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. In the old days, key employees were rotated through all roles as part of their training, to help them understand the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Consider getting the help of outside consultants and advisors to overcome obstacles. People perceive that this idea has been tried and failed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

These events are also opportunities to get a better handle on customer requirements, as well as measure your customer satisfaction and market trends. At least, these professional networking events allow you to get out of the office and meet people who can help. Reach out to reward online influencers and advocates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. Proactively ask for help and anticipate the need to pivot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

Many employees stay self-centered or focused on internal politics as they fight for change, new systems, or bigger budgets, rather than communicate how their interests are really aligned with helping customers and growing the business. Help your owner get beyond the misleading metrics of employee overtime and salary increases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition. Make sure the process is respectful of their needs as well as yours.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

These are the ultimate chess players in the game of business, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. Ultimately, most get the best help from business advisors and mentors. But I see a real opportunity here for every entrepreneur to optimize his impact, and his personal satisfaction, with a minimum of effort.

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