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7 Ways To Get Satisfaction From Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. The next step is to do homework on the business issues that are common to all ideas, such as market size, business models, and marketing.

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7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, from my own experience, it’s not that simple, and not doing some preparation first can easily result in stress, lack of satisfaction, and a hard road to success. These activities may be low-risk, but they teach volumes about the entrepreneur mindset, as well as the challenges and potential satisfaction.

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5 New Marketing Rules For Today’s Customer Generation

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant, I often have to remind small business owners that their marketing needs to be more interactive, versus the traditional “ push ” model, where you broadcast your message to as many people as possible. Marketing must be everyone’s top priority. Market solutions as an experience or an event.

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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role of business advisor to startups, I often recommend these to increase initial brand identity and market penetration. With the rate of market change today, and the advent of worldwide competitors, you need every strategy you can muster to keep up, and respond quickly to new threats.

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5 Keys To Satisfaction From Solving Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Listen to your customers to arrive at acceptable and marketable solutions. The best part of the entrepreneur problem-solving lifestyle is that it can bring satisfaction and happiness to your work. Whether you are charting new territory for pricing models or technology, there is rarely a perfect solution.

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4 Entrepreneur Categories Hunt For Market Innovations

Startup Professionals Musings

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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8 Keys To Innovation And Responding To Market Change

Startup Professionals Musings

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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