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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. Sales people will often blame your pricing.

Sales 382
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How the New Shopify-TikTok Partnership Helps Small Businesses

Tech.Co

A just-announced partnership between the social giant TikTok and the ecommerce giant Shopify could mint a brand-new class of TikTok-friendly ecommerce stores. You can learn more about Shopify's pricing options with our guide , too, and here's a table below that gives you a brief overview. Cost (paid monthly). Cost (paid annually).

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

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Four ways to create marketing excellence

Berkonomics

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. There are lots of ways to define how to market well, including the four P’s of marketing (1): product, price, promotion and place. More we are taught in marketing classes. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand.

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Agent Ace: Using Algorithms To Help You Find A Real Estate Agent

socalTECH

In the age old world of real estate, it''s often referrals, friends, door to door visits, and sometimes shopping carts which help connect home buyers and sellers with local real estate agents. In other words, we help you find the agent who will sell your house the fastest and for the most money, based on their stats.

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VC investors: Don’t be greedy even if you can.

Berkonomics

Especially when outside investors, venture capitalists or angels have put in substantial money, and the sales price is not enough to give them a reasonable return for the time and money invested, these investors can be – in a word – greedy. No-one complains if the sales price is ten times the investment since there is plenty to go around.