Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. Know your customers intimately.

Startup 154

Startup Training Customer Custom 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. These plans just list a few key competitors out there now, compare feature richness, quality considerations, and pricing. Utility of alternative solutions.

Competition 88

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

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. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Startup 111

Startup Training Services Writing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

He outlines six key steps in your journey from yesterday’s customer service to today’s required delivery of exceptional customer experiences: Define the whole customer experience versus service. Traditional customer service, focused on fixing bad transactions, is too little, too late.

Customer 131

Customer Custom Social Media Training 131

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. These plans just list a few key competitors out there now, compare feature richness, quality considerations, and pricing. Utility of alternative solutions.

Competition 151

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 151

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2010

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. A satisfied customer is necessary, but not sufficient, to be a loyal customer who will come back repeatedly, refer their friends and family to you, and be faithful even when your price is not the lowest.

Satisfaction 49

Satisfaction Customer Custom Startup 49

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

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. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Adding priced services is another way to augment a product business. Pricing constraints and the need to attract consumers drove the invention by startups of the freemium model, subscription model, razor-blade model, and others. Create new kinds of solutions. Build entirely new business models and systems.

Resource 112

Resource Ideas Competition Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. Having a great product or service is not enough. All need to know who will be there and what you expect.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 152

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Platform 100

Platform Santa Monica Satisfaction Pricing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Product pre-order model. Interest on debt model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

Funding 141

Funding Startup Outsource Development Satisfaction 141

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

He outlines six key steps in your journey from yesterday’s customer service to today’s required delivery of exceptional customer experiences: Define the whole customer experience versus service. Traditional customer service, focused on fixing bad transactions, is too little, too late. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 158

Customer Custom Social Media Satisfaction 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS).

Technology 133

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

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. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. Know your customers intimately.

Customer 92

Customer Custom Startup Services 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, in my discussions with business owners, some have already used inflation positives to update their inventory values, take advantage of reduced mortgage rates, or simply making the price increases that they have long needed. While they are looking, you can benefit with new services or an expanded product line.

Outsource 95

Outsource Customer Custom Sample 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs. Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as the price and service.

Startup 149

Startup Organization Customer Custom 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

Adding priced services is another way to augment a product business. Pricing constraints and the need to attract consumers drove the invention by startups of the freemium model, subscription model, razor-blade model, and others. Create new kinds of solutions. Build entirely new business models and systems.

Startup 164

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Competition 164

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations. Solution development and delivery.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The world keeps changing, and visible business strategies that worked well in the past, including being the premium brand or low price producer, simply don’t get the customer loyalty they once did. Today, customers are looking for real relationships, a memorable shopping experience, and satisfaction of a higher purpose.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Satisfaction Examples 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Product pre-order model. Interest on debt model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Entrepreneurial thinkers see their business mission as enriching the lives of customers, rather than being a better producer of products and services.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Sales Customer Custom 117

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online. Your future satisfaction and success likely depends on your answer. Make your company a ground-breaking invention machine. The cost of being late is hard to recover.

Marketing 123

Marketing Technical Review Customer Custom 123

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service.

Startup 127

Startup Training Entrepreneur Resource 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Encourage employee innovation in service, just like you must always be looking for ways to improve your product offerings.

Customer 147

Customer Custom Technical Review Metrics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations. Solution development and delivery.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

I recommend a trial run with an experiment or MVP (minimum viable product), at full price and cost, before the big bang launch, risking your investment money and a major time commitment. Culture and environmental changes come quickly, or take longer than anticipated, as the number of markets you must service increases.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. A satisfied customer is necessary, but not sufficient, to be a loyal customer who will come back repeatedly, refer their friends and family to you, and be faithful even when your price is not the lowest.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Competition 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 110

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS).

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

Today your reputation online is more important than your price, service, or location. These can be as simple as regularly counting positive versus negative results from a Google search, to satisfaction survey improvements over time. I recommend interviewing them personally, to be sure you feel comfortable with their goals.

Social Media 144

Social Media Media Summary Satisfaction 144

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

He outlines six key steps in your journey from yesterday’s customer service to today’s required delivery of exceptional customer experiences: Define the whole customer experience versus service. Traditional customer service, focused on fixing bad transactions, is too little, too late. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Social Media Training 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2016

He outlines six key steps in your journey from yesterday’s customer service to today’s required delivery of exceptional customer experiences: Define the whole customer experience versus service. Traditional customer service, focused on fixing bad transactions, is too little, too late.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Social Media Training 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly. Playing favorites is good business and good customer service. Don’t be afraid to raise your prices as you add special services.

Customer 65

Customer Custom Startup Satisfaction 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service.

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Training Resource Customer 125

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

In a critical extension to this thinking, the authors and I would outline another dimension to these personality types and motivators, by defining five motivation grade levels that also impact entrepreneurial motives, actions, and satisfaction: Level A. Advertising, pricing and support practices may show questionable integrity.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 126