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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Optimize your web history and presence.

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7 Accelerated Growth Strategies For Disruptive Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors are looking for innovation in the growth strategy, to match or exceed the innovation in the technology and solution. While searching a while back for the most effective strategies of companies that have achieved huge growth, I came across the classic book “ Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World ,” by Peter H.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Optimize your web history and presence.

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10 Keys To A Credible and Trusted Internet Web Domain

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

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5 Steps to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy

Startup Professionals Musings

But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Kristin Zhivago, in her new book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying. The best way to do this is with real customer interviews.

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10 Ways To Highlight The Credibility Of Your Website

Startup Professionals Musings

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction.

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Should Our Schools Teach Latin or HTML?

Eric Greenspan

I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Learning Latin has its uses; learning HTML, technology and other future skills, can make them a living and help them solve world problems. Creator of mind blowing customer experiences. Marketing maniac.

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