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6 Tips to Boost Workforce Engagement and Motivation

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. I believe the only way to improve engagement is to make work more satisfying. No one likes useless work.

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7 Tips To Keep Your Team Ahead Of “Business As Usual”

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Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction. Let your continuous innovation become your sustainable competitive advantage. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process.

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Nine Startup Tips From Walt Disney

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Even if you fail to achieve your financial goals, at least you will have the satisfaction of doing something you enjoy and you will never have to ask yourself, " What If? " Discover what you love to do, do it really well and you will have a high likelihood of making plenty of money. The downside of this approach is minimal.

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7 Tips For Building The Right People Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Personal friendships will improve communications and trust, and will definitely improve your personal satisfaction and life balance, between work and play. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage. Make it a point to get to know other teams and customers.

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Customer Loyalty Can Be a Startup Competitive Edge

Startup Professionals Musings

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. From my own research, here is a collection of seven top tips on how a startup or any company can build and maintain real customer loyalty: Communicate more personally more often.

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Custom Software

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Today, companies need every edge they can get to strive in our current competitive marketplace. Improved productivity and efficiency leading to cost reductions, easier to use services leading to increased customer satisfaction and retention, a new needed product or service that is not available anywhere else. See [link] (more)

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction. Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity.