Berkonomics

APRIL 16, 2020

Are you salespeople making few if any sales because your prospective customers are distracted by their own problems? Act boldly to address painful layoffs, reductions in salaries, cuts in trade shows already contracted (even if cancelled or reset to the fall months.)

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Berkonomics

MAY 3, 2018

become economic contributors to the bottom line, there is much to be said about consistent or improved service quality by having trained employees already on the front line when the customers want and need them. Although hiring early does add to overhead by bringing employees aboard before they.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you've been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Telecom carriers looking to stay competitive should continue strengthening their network infrastructure and adding greater flexibility to their service offerings to provide reliable and high-performance connectivity for their customers. Learn strategies to minimize risk and promote success when building out 5G services for your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2021

But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words. I’m supportive of using text messaging for agreeing on a time and place for a customer visit, but when I read that text messages are the new pink slips for layoffs, that’s just wrong!

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Tech.Co

JUNE 24, 2022

Mass Layoffs Taking Place. Rising inflation has deterred customers from purchasing products online and shares in Etsy, Shopify, Wayfair, and Poshmark all plummeted last month. The fintech firm has also laid off almost 20% of its workforce. The ecommerce industry, which boomed during the pandemic, has had a tough few months.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2017

[Email readers, continue here…] You can expect to have the same attitude if a past employee resurfaces after a layoff, resignation or after being fired, with a plan for a competitive business – or as an employee of a competitor. So, here’s the obvious advice to give to departing employees. “No

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

I think the vision and the selling, for investors, for employees, and for customers, is really a core skill. We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. What was the hardest part of getting Shift off the ground, when you were an entrepreneur? Minnie Ingersoll: So much was hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Get outside the company regularly to get feedback on future customer needs, emerging technologies, and the views of influencers and experts in the field. Proactively prepare for downturns and recoveries.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

1 priority was to ensure long-term financial stability and secure the core team, technology development and customer programs no matter what the scenario, Czinger said, adding that there is still enormous uncertainty surrounding the real impact and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Divergent 3D has two global OEMs as customers.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2011

Although such a practice does add to overhead by bringing employees aboard before they become economic contributors to the bottom line, there is much to be said about service quality by having trained employees on the front line when the customers want and need them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Should we cut costs, do layoffs, close divisions and focus scare resources on fewer projects? And of course there are always the ineffective boards that have too many members, too many +1’s that speak up, too many customers on the board making it hard to discuss difficult issues. The founders of a company are fighting.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Garcia said that with the economic downturn and layoffs, he suspects there's been a push towards more virtual workers. Garcia reported that it added ten mid-market customers in December, including consulting firm IBI Group and human resources management firm Workday.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Last week, we talked about layoffs and the Winklevoss rock gods. Crypto lending protocol Celsius isn’t fire burning, but it did freeze all customer withdrawals this past weekend , citing concerns about its own liquidity amid “extreme market conditions.” Welcome back to Chain Reaction. crash redux. pic.twitter.com/AacdhK3cw4.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. Don’t wait for your next company layoff to get you started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

It''s far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you''ve been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He had 2 weeks’ cash left in the bank and was facing massive layoffs or potentially bankruptcy. But it got me thinking about how often entrepreneurs overplay their PR so I thought I’d try to offer some advice and how to play PR with VCs (or more broadly with customers or business development partners).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

It's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you've been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Fair allows customers to subscribe to gain access to used cars, and does not require them to sign a long term lease. It's unclear what the reasons for the steep cuts are; the company had announced a big $100M debt and equity investment from Ally Financial only two months ago. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. It could be a natural disaster, like a flood or wind storm, or loss of key personnel, equipment failure, or a major customer complaint on the Internet. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2013

But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words. I’m supportive of using text messaging for agreeing on a time and place for a customer visit, but when I read that text messages are the new pink slips for layoffs, that’s just wrong!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2012

But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words. I’m supportive of using text messaging for agreeing on a time and place for a customer visit, but when I read that text messages are the new pink slips for layoffs, that’s just wrong!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. It could be a natural disaster, like a flood or wind storm, or loss of key personnel, equipment failure, or a major customer complaint on the Internet. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Craig said that the shutdown came as a result of not being able to sustain a large enough market, relative ot the high cost of customer acquisition. According to an email from Craig, the company decided to close down the BettterWorks perk platform, and will not longer be active after next Thursday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Perhaps a simpler way to think about culture is to think of it in terms of how an organization makes choices, how it develops its values, its ethics, how it trains, recognizes and rewards its associates, its spirit, and not to be overlooked, how it treats its customers - both internal and external. Employee turnover is extraordinary low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2010

But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words. I’m supportive of using text messaging for agreeing on a time and place for a customer visit, but when I read that text messages are the new pink slips for layoffs, that’s just wrong!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous article , it's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Now is the time to reap the benefits of those good customer relationships that you've been cultivating. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. Customer Problems/ Pain Points. State the problem/ pain points of the customers clearly. Who is the customer? How many customers can you serve reasonably? Product Name.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. Josh Stomel: We're seeing more and more layoffs every day. What's the idea behind the site? Josh Stomel: ResumeBucket is a portal that allows consumers to simply put their resume online, within seconds.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Epicor, which develops enterprise resource planning, supply chain, and customer relationship management software, said it would take a incur $4M in restructuring charges during Q4. The cuts came along with stricter controls on the firm's discretionary spending and other efforts to reduce operating expenses and improve efficiency at the firm.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

We had flash sales and group sales sites coming to us with the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers saying they have tickets on sale. Our “pick-your-price” model benefits both the industry and you, the customer. I had to close the doors of businesses and layoff people.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

You got flash sales and group sales sites coming to us and basically have the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers, saying they have tickets that are on sale. I had to close the doors of businesses and layoff people. This is a huge deal to a half a billion to a billion dollar industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If you do massive layoffs (RIFs) you can assume that you will need to repay your loan since the intent of the loan is to protect jobs. They have regulations that dictate things like KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti money-laundering) and other regulations designed to avoid abuse of our financial institutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Today we are seeing a rapid transition to independent specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Today we are seeing a rapid transition to independent specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 89

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Today we are seeing a rapid transition to independent specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.

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