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8 Ways To Stay Competitive In Today’s Technical World

Startup Professionals Musings

A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization. If your kids can use computers by age six, every entrepreneur ought to be able to stay current with the latest social media marketing and e-commerce technologies. They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help.

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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others. In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For The Next Customer Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Their expectations of relationship and personalization are taxing businesses today, and their power through social media will kill those who can’t or won’t comply. They are not hesitant to engage the crowd through social media and sites like Yelp to drive you from the marketplace.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. They won’t find you.

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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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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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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

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