Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here are the key reasons that I recommend that aspiring leaders focus on people before process: Customers judge the business by the people quality. Whether it be in person, on the phone, or implied in your marketing, your people and their engagement level is the key driver of customer loyalty, advocacy, and sales growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2021

Based on my own years of experience helping new businesses grow, I’d like to offer my own summary of some key lower-level action items, which I believe every business professional and entrepreneur can learn and practice to their advantage: Show ambition and a sense of urgency in every role. Build community with team members and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This mindset will allow you to alter your direction in the most positive way, and drive customer change rather than be driven by it. For you smart professionals with endless curiosity and a desire to learn, the current gig economy has the potential for much more personal satisfaction, growth, and success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Based on my own experience in large companies, as well as small ones, here are seven key strategies I recommend for building the teams and culture that will drive business success: Admit to yourself and others that you need help. Be the model of customer focus for the team. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/09/2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2021

Investors expect a great return for their risk, so they look for people who can look beyond the technology and their own passion to see a customer need that perhaps even the rest of us haven’t yet envisioned. This gives them the credibility, both public and private, to enlist the support of the help they need to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2021

On the other hand, most business professionals and the customers we all need in business recognize that professionals with a healthy self-esteem will always be more resilient, creative, listen better, and treat others with respect. Everyone sees your energy applied more productively, and has the urge to help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A few years ago, Safeway and other big retailers struggled with the growing problem of plastic bag cost and pollution, before realizing they could actually sell reusable cloth bags to customers, as a win to all. Too many business leaders fear that asking for help will make them look weak. There is no better time than today to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Customers are looking for a differentiator today. The evidence is clear that companies that help people in need, and the environment, are paid back in revenue by the rest of us. Skip the shortcuts you may be taking to get an edge on your competitors at the expense of quality or customer service. Practice your agility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

Every customer or outside concern should be taken seriously as an opportunity to improve. They can help you to remove emotion. Consider bringing in reputation experts to help. These can be as simple as regularly counting positive versus negative results from a Google search, to satisfaction survey improvements over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Look for validation from your mainstream customers. No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin.

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Southern California Edison Blog

MAY 15, 2020

million in 2021 1. In 2021, the average person will spend an estimated 100 minutes watching online videos each day, a 19 percent increase from 84 minutes per day in 2019 2. CDNs allow enterprises to serve their customers or media consumers wherever they are, removing barriers of physical distance. in 2018 was 228.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Start with your own story, the mission of your business, and how to make everyone in your domain, including customers, into advocates and teachers. Just to be clear, automation isn't about shrinking the human workforce; it's about helping you to do more with the same number of people, and to do it with less effort.

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