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Finding a strategic partner, investor or buyer

Berkonomics

Get organized. Email readers, continue here.] And strengthen that at the expense of other areas of your enterprise which may easily be outsourced or reduced in scope. Finding your strategic partner, investor or business buyer is not something you do haphazardly. There are many steps to take, each closer to assuring a success.

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A Conversation With Appetize's Kevin Anderson On Getting Customer Service Right

socalTECH

Since the beginning, we've invested in a relationship management function within our organization, and we've always invested first in quality support. One of our big mantras, internally, is to be the fastest responder when you see a customer email us. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

socalTECH

The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it’s very powerful.”. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . Direct Response Email and Newsletters – Although rightfully vilified due to the irresponsible actions of Spammers, targeted, opt-in email lists can be lucrative sources of customers.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. In an excel sheet put the name of the event, link to the event, event organizer and event theme.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization.

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