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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers these days are turned off by timeless safe messages, delivered repeatedly on traditional media. For trust, they look online to see how you handle real support and satisfaction issues. Using recognized experts and social media influencers turns the marketing context into teaching as opposed to selling.

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5 Ways To Focus Your Strategy On Delighting Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, customers are looking for real relationships, a memorable shopping experience, and satisfaction of a higher purpose. Of course, these new customer-facing strategies shouldn’t preclude you from focusing behind the scenes on reducing costs and broadening your product line to supersede competitors.

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7 Advantages That Local Small Business Owners Enjoy

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some of the key indications that you might be a good match for a lifestyle business, for you to compare and consider against your own objectives and strengths: Enjoy interacting with customers and products every day. This can be a key source of personal satisfaction, as well as the ultimate success factor and legacy.

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5 Keys To The Startup Mindset Required For Breakthrus

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/19/2020. Be forever curious and optimistic.

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, too many choices actually dilutes customer interest in your existing market, and makes your job of production, marketing, and support much more complex. New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options.