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6 Keys To Competitive Advantage By Memorable Service

Startup Professionals Musings

In this context, even “satisfied” is only a “meets-minimum,” and does not put you ahead of your competition. Even the best marketing doesn’t do it. With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction.

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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. This lets you evolve your strategy with the market. Optimize staffing overhead and flexibility in a fluid market. Today you need that budget for market fluxuations, pandemics, and product updates. Higher worker engagement and satisfaction.

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6 Ways To Build And Capitalize On Personal Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not an expert on leadership, so I am always on the lookout for specific development guidance, such as the classic book, “ Leadership Results ,” by the well-known leadership coach and business psychologist, Sebastian Salicru. If necessary, use a strengths coach, and always start a business which highlights your signature strengths.

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. You must feel satisfaction. Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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7 Reasons A Good Team Merits Priority Over Procedure

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether it be in person, on the phone, or implied in your marketing, your people and their engagement level is the key driver of customer loyalty, advocacy, and sales growth. People-centric leaders realize that the right motivated and accountable people are their real competitive advantage. Even process changes require people first.

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10 Ways To Prepare Your Team For Business Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional command leadership allowed individual biases and ego to reduce team engagement and miss market changes and new competitors. Discourage internal team competition and silos. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers. Show respect in dealing with team member changes.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. The cost has been far more than offset by both customer loyalty and advocacy, as well as team spirit.

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