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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Some make big mistakes, such as Webvan expanding too fast with a huge infrastructure, and Pets.com , trying to grow the business with a negative margin, under the mistaken assumption that winning customers is more important than making a profit. Capitalize on competitor weaknesses that you can fill with minimal new investment.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. Costin Tuculescu: Freebinar.com is a completely free alternative for web conferencing and webinar users. It's a complete, online even or webinar solution.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Poogling events/webinar, radio show expansion and social media relationships and events. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Look forward to the discussion. Love the minis!

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

Some make big mistakes, such as Webvan expanding too fast with a huge infrastructure, and Pets.com , trying to grow the business with a negative margin, under the mistaken assumption that winning customers is more important than making a profit. Capitalize on competitor weaknesses that you can fill with minimal new investment.

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8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Startup Professionals Musings

Some make big mistakes, such as Webvan expanding too fast with a huge infrastructure, and Pets.com , trying to grow the business with a negative margin, under the mistaken assumption that winning customers is more important than making a profit. Capitalize on competitor weaknesses that you can fill with minimal new investment.

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How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Currently, social media is the least used of all customer interaction methods. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Maybe it’s time to sign up for a few free Webinars, or even invest in an expert consultant in this area.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Maybe it’s time to sign up for a few free Webinars, or even invest in an expert consultant in this area. My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn.