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8 Strategies For Winning As A Freelancer Or Employee

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. As a business, you should always be looking for your next customer, as well as satisfying your current one. Walk away from a bad role or customer.

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5 Steps To Reduce Due Diligence Investment Failures

Startup Professionals Musings

Others schedule long and exhaustive practice and coaching sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone tells the most positive and consistent story. Update reference customers, partners, and vendors. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/05/2017.

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7 Strategies For A Low Entry-Cost Sustainable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it. They expect to find you on the first result page from search engines, and position ranking is driven by relevant keywords, new content on a regular basis, and inbound and outbound site links. Use social media to actively engage with your customers.

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Interview with Catherine McCord, One Potato

socalTECH

Catherine McCord: I actually founded the company Weelicious over ten years ago, which started out as a web site for family friendly recipes. We've had 100 percent, year-to-date growth in our shipments, and our active users grew by 225 percent in 2017. How did you get into this? Why is that spend so much more than your competitors? ,p>

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Don’t Let Your Business Dreams Die Full Of Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. The best entrepreneurs relish the challenges, and get great satisfaction from overcoming and learning from adversity. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 01/31/2017.

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Abodu raises $20M to build prefabricated backyard homes

TechCrunch LA

The California legislature changed laws in 2017 to make it easier to build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Then on January 1, 2020, the state of California made it dramatically easier to add extra housing units to single-family home sites. The result has been very high levels of customer satisfaction and rapid growth.”

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7 Work Ethic Elements Will Get You Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t believe the old myth that with a few hours of work a day and a great web site, you can get rich while you sleep. In my experience, and from the thoughts of others who have “been there and done that,” here is my list of the top elements you should be looking for: Focused on customers and team, rather than “me, myself, and I.”

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