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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Customer Service – As newspaper boys were the face of their employers, savvy carriers learned to establish healthy customer relationships to facilitate timely collections and generous tips. Although paperboys decreasingly delivered morning papers, the early hours, hazardous conditions (e.g., Alternatives.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Rich Customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering. Focus Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition. Customer, not Competition Be a leader, not a follower.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? I will talk more about outsourcing in point #5, but India has terrific intellectual capital, is less expensive (however, costs have been quickly rising), but, it is very difficult to find "Scrappy" engineers (see point #1) and communication can also be a challenge.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Customers validate businesses. Often times, that time investment could have been better spent talking to customers or acquiring users. Rather than spending time trying to persuade a VC, wouldnt it be easier to simply say "just ask our customers"?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Just Say What it Is

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Unfortunately, they wordsmith themselves so far away from describing what it actually is that they sell, that their customers or users need a jargon-decoder ring to understand what they do. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

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