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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs don’t know what to do at this point, largely accounting for a disappointing 50 percent of startups that fail in the first five years, according to InvoiceTracker. Many entrepreneurs forget that the growth phase may be your tightest squeeze on cash. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs don’t know what to do at this point, largely accounting for that disappointing 50 percent of startups that fail in the first five years, according to Gallup. Many entrepreneurs forget that the growth phase may be your tightest squeeze on cash. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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10 Keys to Making an Entrepreneur Website Credible

Startup Professionals Musings

Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Join relevant business associations.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the investors and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their business is not e-commerce. Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. Search engine marketing (SEM). Streaming video.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a result, being an entrepreneur in now within the financial reach of almost everyone. Sales and marketing costs. Marty Zwilling.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ).

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