Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. These are the ultimate hunters. They build businesses as their lifestyle, not as a job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Later, in my second career as an entrepreneur with startups, I realized that limited resources and fresh insights actually created the mindset that relied on market change and innovation to survive. We didn’t notice as technology advances had opened a whole new market. Don’t wait for innovation ideas from top management.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

housing market persists. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market. “And with the expedited permitting that Abodu has been granted in over two dozen cities, it has faster time-to-installation than other ADU market participants.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2022

Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. Learning / growth perspective: Measures of employee satisfaction, employee turnover, employee education and skill advancement.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2014

Vora also founded Oblix, which was acquired by Oracle, and sits on the boards of Get Satisfaction and NextPrinciples, among other positions. Central Desktop provides a cloud-based, project management and collaboration product specifically aimed at marketers and agencies.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. The result significantly lightens the workload for healthcare professionals, allowing them to focus on decision making and patient care.

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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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Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2012

Getting any product to market is an act composed of a series of compromises in quality, product perfection, feature-functionality, and cost effectiveness. One designer, one engineer, one developer seeking to achieve a degree of perfection to meet a personal level of satisfaction is capable of derailing an entire complex project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. Size of the market. One of the criteria for a good investment is a large and fast growing “potential market.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based mobileStorm , the email and mobile marketing provider headed by Jared Reitzin, has scored another taker for Reitzin's standing offer to pay employees to get a tattoo of the firm's logo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2021

At some stage of your education, you realize that you can learn faster, and get more satisfaction, in the real world than in a academic environment. Making the impossible happen brings their greatest satisfaction. There will be time for friends later. Academic degrees can sometimes slow you down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. Real-time in-process updates vs after-the-fact stories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

Based on my own mentoring experience, here are seven key lessons I have learned, and offer to you as a potential source of inspiration and satisfaction, after some success in your business: Relationships are the real key to business success. Sharing through mentoring amplifies your satisfaction.

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Berkonomics

JULY 21, 2016

Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. Learning / growth perspective: Measures of employee satisfaction, employee turnover, employee education and skill advancement.

Satisfaction 120

Satisfaction Statistics Course .Net 120

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

Successful entrepreneurs have to be people oriented, to solicit experts with various skills, including marketing, production, operations, and finance. Believe in the need for marketing and selling. If you enjoy wearing many different hats and are constantly learning new skills, you will get more satisfaction as an entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Here are some basic principles from my own experience that will improve your odds and keep you on the right track: Recognize that you are not the market.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2017

Power , the consumer analytics company best known for collecting data on consumer satisfaction in the automotive industry, said it has named Bernardo Rodriguez as its new Chief Digital Officer. Rodriguez joins the company from digital agency Huge, where he was Man‌aging Director of Strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Even businesses with highly specialized market segments will find it more effective and simpler to focus on who customers are as people, rather than the “what” of their demographic attributes. Customer value statements must come from customer feedback to other customers, rather than from your marketing. Marty Zwilling.

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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 31, 2022

After many years in business, I’m convinced that none of us has the strengths and interest in all the areas needed for success, including solution changes, finance, marketing, and operations. Trying to do everything is a sure way to maximize stress, lower job satisfaction, and minimize productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2021

Whether it be in person, on the phone, or implied in your marketing, your people and their engagement level is the key driver of customer loyalty, advocacy, and sales growth. You need their full support in today’s rapidly changing market. That takes less time and gives everyone greater satisfaction.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the case of Invoca, customers pay a monthly subscription price for the company''s inbound call marketing platform. This base fee includes the call volume typical for a customer of their size. Like cell phone pricing, overage charges motivate fast-growing customers to step up to higher monthly license fee levels.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2023

You can express it in terms of money, market share, influence or other measure that reflects success. Unlike your vision, which can’t be measured, there is a satisfaction in each step toward achievement of your goal. Here’s a business example: “To be at a $25 million run rate by the end of our fifth year in business.”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

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. But there is one overwhelming method of appraising the effectiveness of a business leader. What is your leadership end game goal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Of course, drivers have to be backed up by some realities, like necessary resources, adequate skills, relentless determination, and a market of people interested in supporting your dream. This is the genesis of all “customer-centric” thinking and marketing. Yet I’m convinced these realities alone won’t make your dream happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2020

Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. There is always a related market or new country. The world is now a small place, but startups usually don’t have the resources to saturate all the related markets at once. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Your company can’t be a leader without establishing an elevated perspective, based on realistic market needs, and demonstrating an ability to execute. Start with a market segment that you need to understand more deeply, and invest in the success of your joint customers. Connect with the bigger picture of the market and society.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For your own happiness and satisfaction, I recommend you start instead working from that higher purpose and passion. All too often, business owners find the financial returns alone do not provide the long-term satisfaction and success they assumed would come with all the hard work and challenges that come with every business, large or small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Fight the urge do more things, to attract more customers in a broader market. In reality, too many choices actually dilutes customer interest in your existing market, and makes your job of production, marketing, and support much more complex. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. No more gamed employee satisfaction surveys. Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A competitor could find easy pickings here, with direct marketing to habit shoppers with coupons, special prices, and exciting promotions. Well, how about the satisfaction that – at least for some of our customers – we have achieved that lofty mission we set out to create way back when all this started. That’s habit–shopping.

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