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8 New Ways To Focus On Customers For Trust And Profit

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Pushing yourself on customers by touting features and price doesn’t work anymore.

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5 Considerations For Driving Growth In A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit.

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5 Strategies For Balancing Revenue Versus User Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit.

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Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop - Initial Business Models Can Be Enticing But Limiting In The Long Run

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However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

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6 Keys to Becoming an Influencer for More Business

Startup Professionals Musings

People follow influencers on social media to find what they buy, who they vote for, and which social causes they support. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers.

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Should Entrepreneurs Grow Revenue Or User Count?

Startup Professionals Musings

Its only been in the last 10 years that social-media companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit.

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5 Reasons Startups Need Revenue As Well As Users

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s only been in the last ten years that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit.

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