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7 Keys To Making A Team And Customers Feel Respected

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers buy from people, not companies. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Investors invest in people, not ideas.

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PR Is A Passion Play That Cannot Be Outsourced

InfoChachkie

Rather than directly explaining their value proposition with all the passion and heartfelt stridency that only an entrepreneur can deliver, they outsource this communication to a Public Relations (PR) firm. Beyond PR, such roles include: Sales, Product Development, Strategic Planning and Fund Raising. The company started ‘getting ink.’

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7 Ways To Get Key People Committed To Supporting You

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers buy from people, not companies. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Investors invest in people, not ideas.

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6 Marketing Accelerators For Boosting Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. Yet, as a business consultant, I still find many of you business leaders relying primarily on your technology, word-of-mouth , or location to attract necessary customers.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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7 Keys to Good Team and Customer Vibes In a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers buy from people, not companies. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Investors invest in people, not ideas.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers. Chris Tragos: Typically, with an advertising RFP, a campaign will come pre-loaded with a standard ad spot and creative. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. What we provide, is really the rest of it.

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