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New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Marty Zwilling.
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Outsource services back to the customer. Market dynamics change rapidly, so thinking back to why things changed in a previous time can generate new and innovative approaches, based on the new market context and technologies. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it. Force original intent thinking.
Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation.
On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.
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Outsource services back to the customer. Market dynamics change rapidly, so thinking back to why things changed in a previous time can generate new and innovative approaches, based on the new market context and technologies. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it. Force original intent thinking.
On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster.
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