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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Minimize one-time sales in your business model. This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s always tempting to think that more product variations will satisfy more customers and lead to new sales. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

socalTECH

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. 1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. I had worked before at BEA Systems, the middleware company which was acquired by Oracle in 2004 or 2005, and we used to joke that the company had been built entirely by acquisitions.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales.

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