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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is an outline of some key force multipliers that I have seen used effectively in the ongoing battle for business survival and success: Establish a presence on multiple social media channels. Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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6 Keys To Growing Your Career Through The Gig Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. These costs include travel, training, supplies, office space, bookkeeping, and many others.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. But having somebody in-house means they can do many things like help with website copy, running events, writing training manuals and even handling customer support calls.

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8 Strategies For Winning As A Freelancer Or Employee

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, like an entrepreneur with a new business, you have to factor in all the indirect costs previously covered by employers, including training, health care, and time off for vacations. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

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