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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you hadn’t noticed, the key elements of a competitive advantage for your business have changed as businesses move online, and your domain is instantly global. As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and a while back added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Mobile and global are driving all of these in innovative new ways to grow your business.

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8 Work Trends Driven By New Ventures And Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

Both are required to stay competitive. An exception is the classic book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ They are now actively recruited for many roles.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. I also recommend the app development strategies outlined in the classic book, “ Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World ,” by Robert Tercek, who has lived on the digital edge for many years. Be aggressive and alert.

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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In the old days we used to call a restaurant to book. As long as they didn’t lose the book or make a mistake. As long as they didn’t lose the book or make a mistake. and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. After hours there was the answering machine.

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As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service

TechCrunch LA

Ficto is bringing to market adaptations of bestselling books and original productions which will be released with theatrical films and has plans in the pipeline for other forms of scripted and unscripted entertainment. Both Quibi and Ficto see short form as a way to break through with a new kind of storytelling built for mobile media first.

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7 Likely Criticisms Every Founder Needs To Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

They bristle quickly when investors or even potential customers raise issues with real value, competition, risk, and sustainability. I like the specifics on how to do this in the classic book, “ The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough ,” by leadership expert Samuel B. The idea will only make things worse.

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