Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Each of these will help you in achieving success and satisfaction while tackling your toughest business issues: Stop attacking symptoms – dig first for the root cause. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2023

Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Make sure required data, resources, and tools are provided early. It requires the right tools and information to get the job done. Top performance is more than skills and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. AI-powered tools can handle routine inquiries and draft standard documents, freeing up legal staff for complex tasks.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Businesses use the company’s software tools to help monitor customer satisfaction. The Medallia (NYSE: MDLA ) IPO earlier this year was one of a number of successful public market debuts by companies offering cloud-based software, often dubbed software-as-a-service. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Examples cited include biometrics, tool productivity, environmental control, social visibility, relationship data, and brand insight. This shrinking group is willing to share location, brand history, and tool productivity data, but is still reticent to share social, biometric, and environmental data. Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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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. Today you have the tools, like blogging, videos, and new web technologies, to explain and make your customers appreciate what you do, and how you do it better than anyone else. Educate your customers on your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

I particularly like her key points on improving the employee mindset, and I will outline here the top focus keywords we both recommend on the employee side of the equation: Efficient – tools to minimize time and effort at work. You will see greater productivity, and employees will have a better experience and more satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Don’t forget online recruiting tools, as well as local colleges for applicants with the right skills for you. Take advantage of inexpensive tools to gather data and provide analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. The stigma of a clunky desktop today can easily lower worker engagement and satisfaction. Measure results in terms of customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Regularly asking for insight, and then following up, to fix these wasted efforts, will improve job satisfaction, as well as productivity. For example, you can share stories of customer satisfaction, and acknowledge people’s contributions to their peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Measure to see if you have an increase in revenue, a lowering of costs, and improvement in customer satisfaction. The tools to help you with all these actions continue to evolve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Your standards for product quality, sales growth, and customer satisfaction must be documented and reviewed prior to results and performance reviews. Make sure required data, resources, and tools are provided early. It requires the right tools and information to get the job done. Top performance is more than skills and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Everyone has some degree of strengths blindness, and will likely benefit from one of many tools, such as the Clifton StrengthsFinder. This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. Recognize your weaknesses, but lead with your strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. For example, Richard Branson relishes the satisfaction of initiating innovative startups, and rewarding strong team members with the opportunity to run a joint spinoff.

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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. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. Solution development and delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

Examples cited include biometrics, tool productivity, environmental control, social visibility, relationship data, and brand insight. This shrinking group is willing to share location, brand history, and tool productivity data, but is still reticent to share social, biometric, and environmental data. Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Entrepreneurial leaders know that complexity actually increases risk, as well as mistakes, and ultimately reduces customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Most experts agree that the key to worker productivity, decision making, and satisfaction, is raising their level of engagement from the currently low thirty percent range. Examples of the new tools include online meetings through Zoom or GoToMeeting. The proper use of rewards can make or break any business and employee relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. Then there is the follow-up to provide customer support and satisfaction. There are no shortcuts to funding, but it pays to use the tools that work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2021

The solution to this problem is part of a bigger challenge – taking back control of your work life, and regaining a sense of freedom and influence, as described in the classic book, “ Work-Life Brilliance: Tools to Break Stress and Create the Life and Health You Crave ,” by Denise R. Make an offer that serves both your needs. Drop the guilt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

The bad news is that I still find a lot of you who don’t use these tools effectively, or haven’t learned the rules for nurturing remote relationships. I still find too many service organizations that ignore or discount online reviews and satisfaction surveys. Make sure clients know how you manage your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. Really listen to feedback from the team, and empower them with the ability to make customers happy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Will the requested outcome advance any of your goals – or just provide an increment of satisfaction? You have a tool for the question. [Email readers, continue here…] Did your proposed order pass the jerk test? Will the output be used in a meaningful way? Now raise the stakes of that order to the corporate level. Well, then.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Look for functions that may be performing poorly in your business due to lack of skills or necessary tools. Through the use of Zoom and similar video tools , they could be your employees working from home. After all, running a business is all about maximizing your satisfaction, as well as your financial returns.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

Sure You Track Satisfaction, But Whose Success Are You Monitoring? These teams gauge customer satisfaction by tracking net promoter scores, customer churn, renewal rates, etc. If you sell a cost savings tool, measure the actual costs saved by your customers. Such metrics will obviously differ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

These companies, and many others, are finding that strong leadership and personally-tuned benefits are the key to long-term satisfaction and motivation, certainly more effective than high salaries and financial incentives alone. In today’s fast moving world, the time frame for giving recognition keeps getting smaller.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When problems arise in a startup, blame is a useless tool. In a startup, it’s everyone’s job to more fully understand requirements, competition, as well as customer satisfaction. Good manners are a two-sided positive tool; they not only convey respect to everyone with whom you interact, but they also command respect from those people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2019

Yes, companies have to enable a culture of purpose, employee value, positive feedback, and the tools to do the work, but people have to take ownership of their own life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Take satisfaction from a couple of simple wins every day. Getting to know the managers also helped engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This can be a key source of personal satisfaction, as well as the ultimate success factor and legacy. In my experience, the costs and risks of a lifestyle business continue to come down, as websites, social media, smartphone apps, open source tools, and customers via the Internet become more and more the norm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. Aspiring entrepreneurs who rely only on traditional learning vehicles (teachers, classrooms, and risk-free practice) are doomed to failure in anticipating change today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction. Modern information management tools. Performance accountability processes. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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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. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. Solution development and delivery.

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