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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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TriNet sent remote workers an email that some thought was a phishing attack

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who rely on TriNet for access to outsourced human resources, like their healthcare benefits and workplace policies, were sent an email this week as part of an effort to keep employees “informed and up-to-date on the labor and employment laws that affect you.” This is not a phishing site, but it sure looks like one.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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We''ll do things like retouch photos for sites like HauteLook, which is now owned by Nordstrom, and Gilt Groupe. We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites. angeles startup taskus outsourcing phillippines growth bryce maddock entrepreneur' READ MORE>>.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”