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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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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. Marty Zwilling.

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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. They need to see results in the form of sponsored events, social media, and feedback from influencers and customers that your mission is more than the low-cost producer.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s customers quickly sense the growing momentum of specific businesses, or lack of it, via social media, online reviews, and texting with friends, and change their habits accordingly. Your long-term success and satisfaction depends on it. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/22/2020.

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7 Advantages That Local Small Business Owners Enjoy

Startup Professionals Musings

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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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. Try that mindset next time!

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