Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] It is the board, made up of individual members, that is responsible for the care and maintenance of the corporate person. Of course they should not. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] For those who have tried (and perhaps built) a commission structure based upon anything other than gross revenue, there are some relatively easy solutions for simplification. Pick a number for the cost of sales for outside purchases of hardware or services and assign a standard percentage to these.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And the most logical one seemed to be “eyeballs” or number of unique monthly users finding their way to the site or registering for the service. per registered user of ICQ, the early messaging service. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Remembering the insanity before 2000.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Of course, those are highly suspect numbers from Feedburner. Services Pages. Use Feedburner or Feedblitz for Email. This is that post.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results. The work continued for about eight weeks between the two of us as we visited the 27 locations and worked with employees in departments across all disciplines within each location and at central offices that performed services for all locations.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Of course, even though that is your contract with the investors, way over half of those implied contracts never work out that way. Of course, you will find yourself in opposition to your investors and some of most of your board members if you do this after taking outside investment. What if you later decide to just keep control?

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Berkonomics

MAY 11, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] That reality is a tough one for the professional investor, almost as tough as for those entrepreneurs who lose their businesses. Of course, you could be the exception. And it’s a tough test at that. None of this is to say that an inexperienced entrepreneur cannot lead a great new business.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Most college econ courses teach marginal economics. Email readers, continue here…] In an Internet-based business, power comes not just from high gross margins, but also from an increase in the percent of conversions. So, not to scare those who didn’t take econ, here is a simple explanation. Let’s use breakeven as our test.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Online learning site Lynda.com , which is now part of LinkedIn/Microsoft, has been hit by a password breach, which compromised less than 55,000 accounts at the service. Lynda said the breach also included information on contact information and courses viewed, according to an email sent to users. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

The phone could be used for receiving incoming calls when in the restaurant, on the golf course or anywhere. But wait for the mic drop… [Email readers, continue here…] Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. These systems were not cheap as you might guess.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2017

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and sales people rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Of course most of us have limited resources for such overwhelming support of a new offering.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Of course, this comment made me think of the many times I had been guilty of this more than occasional heads-down office work over the years of management and assume that most of you who have supervised others have fallen into the same trap. Had I been guilty? How do you frame menial desk jobs as “customer support?”.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 20, 2015

One of the hardest parts of email marketing is building a subscriber base and getting them to open your emails but that’s only half the battle. The goal of email marketing is opening a conversation and turning that conversation into a relationship. And that is exactly how we should treat this alliance, as a relationship.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality. Email readers, continue here…] WalMart is known for lowest prices, often for identical merchandise found in other stores for more. Nordstrom’s competes on service above all, quality second and price a distant third.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

So, when do we know which course to take? Email readers, continue here…] But doesn’t it take seemingly unlimited resources to compete against the gorilla in a niche? Been skewered for slow customer service? At least that is the conventional wisdom. Quietly abandon a niche? Refuse to engage? Or charge in full speed?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2016

By now, you’ve probably heard about big data as a service , machine learning, and now deep learning, but differentiating between them isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Google has started a free course meant to teach people about deep learning. After all, Google uses deep learning for many of the services that it offers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Los Angeles-based Wpromote , the provider of online marketing services led by Michael Mothner, said it is offering up a set of free workshops, courses, and discussions to nonprofits and charities. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. A bottleneck in your organization’s flow of product or service can happen, shift, or disappear quickly. Common to all bottlenecks are three factors: [Email readers, continue here…] . Of course, you could fit that definition.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so. Email readers, continue here…] D=Decrease costs. More importantly for management, finding a way to focus on extreme customer service will be the most inexpensive, effective marketing tool of all.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. Innovation does not always equal invention. Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 -- Neil Sahota, IBM Certified Consultant and Senior Project Manager, IBM - Global Business Services. Entrepreneurship Course, 2012 Guest Speaker Lectures, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine. Free and open to the public.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2010

We all use email in our daily lives. For the most part you send emails to one or many people and you include them all in the “to&# field. Naw, of course not. Emailing a list for an event - When I email a large group I almost always use bcc. Sometimes people who are blind copied respond to the email.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Which devices?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Which devices?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Simply, it’s offering a specific product or service to a specific group of people. Of course not. Email readers, continue here…]. Think about your product or service. What Is niche marketing? Why Is niche marketing important? This is easy. So, what other benefits are there to niche marketing?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

Then think of all the things you do to surround that core with people and assets that complete your company and allow you to release your product or perform your service. Now consider how many of those surrounding assets and services are really necessary for you to perform in order to protect and grow your core.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We take courses on-line. We bypass the middle person for services and information. The mobile Internet – The latest major computing cycle [Email readers, continue here…] Over the last fifty years, the world transitioned from mainframe computing to mini-computers to PCs to the desktop Internet. Will hotels be next?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Suppliers need you to be a good customer, to pay a reasonable price for goods or services, to pay your bills on time, and of course to reorder when the time comes. Handling suppliers’ needs. But suppliers also want to know what makes you productive and help you win at your game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

In the age of Skype, email, cheap telephony and collaboration tools it’s all too easy to sit in your office and connect with people remotely. I was spending the evening eating room service so that I could meet with a potential investor for my fund the next morning. ” OF COURSE! Of course they don’t. It’s Wedneday.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Most of these people will provide time for you out of friendship, rather than seeking reward in the form of stock options or pay for service. We work for food” is a common mantra for such friends who are willing to provide such informal services. Email readers continue here.] [Email readers continue here.]

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Of course, there are external risks that cannot be controlled or predicted but can be planned for as well – natural disasters, sudden political or economic events that rattle the entire economy, and more. If you could predict a crisis within your business before its occurrence, wouldn’t you move to prevent or reduce its impact?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Of course, we are speaking of increased valuation of your company when we speak of “wealth.” Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? So, let’s examine them and mitigate them. Make you wealthy someday. The carrot and the stick. Second: Market risk. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

The phone could be used for receiving incoming calls when in the restaurant, on the golf course or anywhere. Merely adapting the switches to new digital phones would not work, since guests no longer needed the service itself, being instantly self-sufficient. These systems were not cheap as you might guess.

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