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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). While I realize that a high level of certainty in these numbers is an elusive goal, the value of doing the work, and benchmarking your business against competitors is well worth the effort.

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7 Scenarios Where A Business Plan Is Still An Asset

Startup Professionals Musings

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

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7 Crowdfunding Rules That Can Boost Your Campaign

Tech.Co

Once a novelty act reserved for indie band albums and curious art projects, crowdfunding is starting to play a major role in the world of startups and new products. In fact, the majority of your work should be finished by the time you start your campaign. Rule #3: Do Your Homework. Rule #2: Launch Day is Priority #1.

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Every Small Business Should Celebrate the Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. This week is National Small Business Week in the US, so it’s a good time to celebrate your successes, and allow the rest of us to acknowledge your dedication and innovations.

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Facebook’s Biggest Mistake?

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Everyone has an account and checks it multiple times a day, no matter how often people threaten to delete it and “de-wire”. While the web based version of Facebook has an abundance of display banners and advertisements littering every page, the mobile version has nothing of the sort. Facebook is the new crack. Yeah, right.

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4 Tools to Help Startups Find Quality Leads

Tech.Co

A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. You need to find lead gen tools that will convert leads, fill your sales funnel, and increase your revenue effectively. Build a stack, an all-in-one solution if you may, out of your favorite tools. What’s more?

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

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