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 continually get frustrated with your team members, customers, vendors, and partners. But nobody said it would be easy. It’s very frustrating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

You may focus only on Facebook, and missing customers who expect to see you on Instagram and YouTube. Get interactive with online users and customer feedback. Publishing your content is positive, but responding to customers online multiplies your impact. Sponsor customer events for visibility and giveaways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2010

Blockbuster--which had been running a pilot program covering video games since 2009--said this week that it will expand beyond Cleveland, Ohio and Seattle, Washington, and provide its own video game rental service to all of its customers. Tags: gamefly merger acquisition videogame content blockbuster rental video game. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

If you find yourself and your business in one of these categories, it’s time to heed the steps I recommend to every business client today: Ask for a good review from every satisfied customer. Customers these days expect to get asked, and often need that little extra push to put a testimonial on your website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or responding to undeserved challenges to their reputation. Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

In my role as a business mentor and advisor, I now always look for a culture and recommend team roles that nurture collaboration rather than contention, communities rather than silos , and transparent communication at all levels. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Goal Setting and Making Plans There’s a lot of content that already exists around the basics of goal setting, i.e., SMART goals: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely However, it’s far easier to teach someone about these than it is to help them create the goals themselves. So the question is whether it’s worth the effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Maintaining current content is costly and time-consuming. If you don’t engage users with comprehensive and valid content the moment they enter your site, they are not likely to return. The solution is to incent local users to keep the content fresh and abundant, which requires that they see real value in the result.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Provide online content that ranks you ahead of competitors. Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it. They expect to find you on the first result page from search engines, and position ranking is driven by relevant keywords, new content on a regular basis, and inbound and outbound site links.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s hard to be successful in any business when your customers can’t find you, or they find you and still can’t figure out whether your solution works for them. By far the most effective technique for improving your writing is simply carrying out user readability tests on every piece of content, and really listening to feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Don’t allow your startup to “fail by success,” meaning too many orders delivered and inventory required for big customers, before their long payment cycle kicks in. No matter how great your solution, it takes real marketing effort, content and investment to get attention these days. To prevent this, build a buffer and line of credit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

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 continually get frustrated with your team members, customers, vendors, and partners. But nobody said it would be easy. It’s very frustrating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2018

Starting a new venture and thriving in today’s economy is hard, but the best have figured out that customers and employees need to feel that you have a sense of purpose, to complement the company’s pursuit of profit. Tie marketing content to the bigger picture of the world. Building a solution and a company is not a solo exercise.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Walt felt similar pressure when he was fired by Universal Studios and barred from creating additional content using his first hit character, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Money allowed Walt to do more of what he loved to do, which was create entertaining content. However, Walt did not fold. I make money to make more pictures."

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2014

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2017

While writing a business plan always seems like a huge task to be done on another day, if you break it into small steps, and commit to assigning each segment to the right person, you may be amazed at how much content you get in a short period. The little satisfactions can sometimes mean a lot. Solve small problems.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. As customer feedback becomes critical to creating a better experience, Google announced several components of the Play Store that will support companies in their quest to understand consumers. Here are three of the most important takeaways: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

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 continually get frustrated with your team members, customers, vendors, and partners. But nobody said it would be easy. It’s very frustrating.

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Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Social Media 55

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

They had been slowly building their technology and growing customers, and it was a very much break-even type of business. Jeb Spencer: When we first met Accordent, they were doing less than $1M in revenue, and were located a block from the beach in Hermosa Beach, but we were amazed at the number of customers they already had acquired.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Interact with real customers to validate passion in their feedback. Use social media and live customers to eliminate any reality distortion in your internal perception of value. Develop marketing content and communicate with trusted advisors and employees to make sure the right message can be delivered with clarity and integrity.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2015

Following are some of the powerful benefits of using business management software to transform business processes in a manner that produces the type of results that will improve a company’s customer satisfaction rating. Cost Efficiency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2018

Define and document role content and standards for performance. Thus paying for sales volume, when you desire customer satisfaction, will not get you high performance. As you contemplate your key messages, I recommend that you count on repeating them at least five times in different forums to assure they are heard.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions. Lean Approach. Model-Focused. Metrics-Guided. Vision-Driven (You’re definitely going to need a strong vision when those sleepless nights, crying kids, and angry spouse enter the picture).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

You always want perfect data on what customers are doing. But what does the customer physically do at the theatre when they’re there and making a choice? Steve Belin is passionate about developing products that solve problems in the marketplace and provide great customer experiences. Online usage data, easy.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Where is it?

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