Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Each of these will help you in achieving success and satisfaction while tackling your toughest business issues: Stop attacking symptoms – dig first for the root cause. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Unfortunately, with limited resources, this isn’t possible, and it frustrates customers and the team. Fight the urge do more things, to attract more customers in a broader market. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2023

Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. There is always a related market or new country. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. Yes, if you are a bad leader of people, you will lose human resources and frustrate your attempt to reach to goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2010

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his recent book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Social Media Metrics Media Satisfaction 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2020

Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. There is always a related market or new country. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If you are the hot-shot technical innovator that invented your solution, make sure you have an equally adept business and marketing expert to complement your skills. “If Pivot early, as required, to tune your features and marketing to meet the market and technical realities. Gather your resources before scaling the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. He suggests you begin with the “big three” business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Get attention and reach your audience.

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Social Media Media Metrics Satisfaction 69

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Identify the three most important metrics your business must hit every week to achieve growth goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2013

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keeping satisfaction high. Marketing-driven customer acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keep satisfaction high. Marketing-driven customer acquisition.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. There is always a related market or new country. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Startup Social Media Study Research 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. There is always a related market or new country. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Technology Entrepreneur Study Research 103

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In today’s market, no solution is perfect for everyone, so achieving perfection is unrealistic and unproductive. I recommend that entrepreneurs test the market with a minimum viable product (MVP), before burning resources on the ultimate solution, only to find the market has changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

You need to quantify measurable criteria for success, using business metrics. It’s time for the executive team and advisory board to commit the necessary funds and people resources to complete the plan. In addition, you will like the exhilaration and satisfaction that comes with a successful moonshot. A dream is not enough.

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Startup Metrics Entrepreneur Resource 56

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Most companies have a roadmap describing what they’re planning to build, deliver or market. We have had to take sub-market salaries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. There is always a related market or new country. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Technology Startup Study Research 57

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Test new things and keep testing in your market for things that work. Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Count the number of new projects, time and resources required to implement, and measure the return in revenue, customer satisfaction, or cost savings. Look outside for benchmarks.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Summary 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

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Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Social Media 55

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Some experts have tied this market to location detection hardware (GPS), but even that is now pervasive on all smart devices. You need metrics to show dominant penetration of the relevant customer demographic, added value over existing media, and real customer testimonials of value. Local businesses expect proof of value, not promises.

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Advertising Content Social Media Satisfaction 63

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Ann outlines six fundamental principles that are key to building this culture, or changing an existing culture to improve financial return, customer satisfaction, and employee performance: You can’t force culture, you can only create environment. Input = output.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

When you spend large chunks of time (and resources) looking at data, you begin to wonder what you’re watching and what information is really worth gathering. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? ” So what did Steve Belin of Fandango mean when he answered “Move the needle: data”?

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