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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. Both are wrong.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

As you're probably familiar with, in the business to business marketing space, print has been the dominant way that vendors communicate with their potential audience. He found it was difficult to build an audience up, and really looking into the whole search engine optimization necessary for this kind of long tail content.

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8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Startup Professionals Musings

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor.

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7 Reasons For Your Startup to Skip Stealth Mode

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor.

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