Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

Startup 116

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2020

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. If you get to know your customers well enough, you can provide solutions that make selling and service the same thing. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price.

Startup 122

Startup Training Customer Custom 122

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Startup 106

Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. Train and coach continuously.

Customer 92

Customer Custom Startup Services 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud Computing.

Technology 133

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Even if the goods and services are changing hands as gifts, or the revenue motive exists only to make services sustainable, the economic value is evident. Community means more than supply and demand. One consequence of the new sharing business model is that goods become services. Where and when is all this leading?

Resource 126

Resource Commerce Social Media Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. By adding to perceived value, a company attracts more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

Organization 128

Organization Startup Pricing Customer 128

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Pricing 123

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Sales 147

Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

” The post talked about how to find the lowest acceptable price & terms in a deal through testing. You’ve got to have some wiggle room on price and on terms. She got you to drop price and include more licenses for free. She got you to offer free storage and discounted training. Wants their pound of flesh.

Development Team Review 293

Development Team Review Software Review Pricing Startup 293

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

These authors are experts on customer service and customer experience, having helped hundreds of companies of all sizes. As a business owner, you have to take a hard look, with your customer hat on, at what you promise and imply to your customers in your advertising, marketing materials, and your customer service.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Demand Pricing 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. If you get to know your customers well enough, you can provide solutions that make selling and service the same thing. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price.

Training 108

Training Customer Custom Social Media 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2018

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. If you get to know your customers well enough, you can provide solutions that make selling and service the same thing. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price.

Training 61

Training Customer Custom Social Media 61

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

Startup 229

Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Even if the goods and services are changing hands as gifts, or the revenue motive exists only to make services sustainable, the economic value is evident. Community means more than supply and demand. One consequence of the new sharing business model is that goods become services. Where and when is all this leading?

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud Computing.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. By adding to perceived value, a company attracts more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Organization Startup Pricing 117

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Startup 116

Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Make sure you know what the size of customer you want to serve is, what the people in a company of that size do, the problems they have, the features that will resonate and the channels you’ll need to sell into and service that customer. The problem is that to win each of these deals I had to promise high service levels.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. If you get to know your customers well enough, you can provide solutions that make selling and service the same thing. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price.

Training 59

Training Customer Custom Social Media 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. By adding to perceived value, a company attracts more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

Startup 59

Startup Organization Pricing Customer 59

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

The days of pushing new and marginal performers into customer service are gone. A mission of superior customer service is more than words in the board room or words in front of customers. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Formal training for the team is just the beginning, not the end.

Customer 55

Customer Custom Startup Coach 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud Computing.

Startup 107

Startup Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur 107

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. By adding to perceived value, a company attracts more sophisticated and demanding customers less expensively and more quickly.

Startup 91

Startup Organization Pricing Customer 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

Even if the goods and services are changing hands as gifts, or the revenue motive exists only to make services sustainable, the economic value is evident. Community means more than supply and demand. One consequence of the new sharing business model is that goods become services. Where and when is all this leading?

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. With FitOrbit, we bring real, one-to-one, human-based personal training and meal planning to the Internet for the first time. You charge a subscription fee for the service, don't you?

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. They can then make money from that video-on-demand, and people can pay them to watch that content. You just need to use our app, and you'll make money from all of those recommendations.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. You can’t please everyone all the time, so don’t kill yourself trying to satisfy a bad boss or an overly demanding customer.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98