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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

Train and coach continuously. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. In the past, competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power, and service versus price. Service people need this as required team support.

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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

Train and coach continuously. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. In the past, competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power, and service versus price. Service people need this as required team support.

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6 Hiring Lessons from Vince Lombardi

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Vince Lombardi is widely considered the best football coach of all time, and ultimately may be the greatest coach in the history of all sports. Coach Lombardi put teamwork first (which is why we did, too). As probably the most famous football coach of all time, it seems to have worked. It has a price.

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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

socalTECH

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. You've got to know best practices in demand generation. Your finance has to be world class.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Announcing that you are a consultant, and hoping demand will set your focus, is not a good strategy.

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8 Initiatives To Make Your Customers Loyal Advocates

Startup Professionals Musings

Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Customer-centric founders have found that interactive coaching and mentoring by experienced peers is more effective and positive in keeping everyone up to speed on trends, competition, customer demands and technology. Engage your best customers in the process as well.

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