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Newegg Opens Facility Near Toronto

socalTECH

Newegg said its new 3,800 square foot "Hybrid Centre" will let customers both pick up will-call orders, as well as learn about technology products and attend educational seminars. The new center--its second-- is located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and opens up this Friday.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Invariably your first efforts at product won’t quite hit the mark – and this is OK. Unique Selling Proposition or USP is the things that your product is uniquely positioned to solve.

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7 Reasons to Start a Blog Before Shipping a Product

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Cultivate early customers. Find potential partners.

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6 Incentives To Master The Art Of Marketing Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

Beyond the fear, many really don’t get the value of being willing and able to communicate effectively with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people, both one-on-one and one-to-many. As your company grows, you have to host customer seminars.

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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. According to Gartner , one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap Without Selling Your Soul

Both Sides of the Table

This post is about how to work with your largest customers when you’re an early-stage software company and about how you can increase your margins by selling your roadmap. For starters as a young enterprise software company you need to think about the customer segments you serve. One way of slicing customer segments is by size.

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Do your kids Google Poo?

Eric Greenspan

In a couple of weeks we held our first seminar educating parents on how to keep their kids safe online. Instead, we did a seminar to bring awareness to the parents and provide a few tips (and software) to monitor or block inappropriate content and behavior. Poogling Internet Safety Seminars was officially born!

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