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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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7 Staffing Strategies That May Cost You Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. I recommend a thirty to ninety-day trial period, defined in writing, where either party can terminate the relationship without recourse. Hiring before organizational structure is defined.

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10 Keys to Remaining Cool And Calm Despite Pressures

Startup Professionals Musings

The best of you train yourselves to show emotions sparingly and strategically, while the rest are convinced that emotions cannot be controlled , and are a function of culture and genetics. Write down your top 5 core values and review them often. Take satisfaction from wins to balance against setbacks.

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7 Ways To Hire Your Way To Failure In A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. I recommend a thirty to ninety-day trial period, defined in writing, where either party can terminate the relationship without recourse. Hiring before organizational structure is defined.

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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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7 Critical Success Factors For A Services Business

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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