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7 Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in May 2024

Tech.Co

Tips For Perfecting Your Government Grant Application Government grants offer a golden opportunity to businesses looking to grow or recover their business. So, to ensure your proposal looks polished carefully proofread the application or outsource the service to a professional. Learn more about the grant, and how to apply here.

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7 Rules for Savvy Customer Service Required Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone has to wake up and answer website email requests. It’s time to end the automated email responses with the “do-not-reply” address. It’s getting tougher and tougher to outsource this tone and technology to other cultures halfway around the globe.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Begging for More

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, and the eyes of experts in this arena, here are some practical tips: There is no substitute for a personal touch. Outsourcing your support team to a far-away country and culture is not the way to start. We all know it’s less expensive to automate the support role, through web site forms and touch-tone phone systems.

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How to Make a Real Social Media Customer Connection

Startup Professionals Musings

That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function. Don’t force customers to go offline to your customer support phone or email for resolution. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa''s small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link]. You need insider “deciders” here.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

For instance, a travel site might contain travel tips, along with ads for great deals on vacations. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Once you’ve answered these questions go ahead and contact them in a short email. Now study the event organizer.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. 7 angel investing tips in 7 minutes - Venture Hacks , August 3, 2010 Last week, Naval and a slew of angel investors shared their investing advice with an audience of angels-in-training at AngelConf 2010.

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