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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend using digital channels, including email and social media, personalized, if possible, with promotions. Outsource functions outside your core competency. I see a new resurgence of outsourcing alternatives from outside the country as well as inside, driven by freelancers caught in the squeeze.

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Innovative Services Are A Huge Boon For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

If you think about it, services make more sense in this social media age where relationships, personalization, and interaction are king. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS). Process outsourcing services. Hence the popularity and wealth of new services like Citi Bike, Lyft, and NetFlix.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Begging for More

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s generation is accustomed to relationships via social media and texting, as long as social protocols are honored. Outsourcing your support team to a far-away country and culture is not the way to start. Outsourcing your support team to a far-away country and culture is not the way to start.

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Interview with Adam Wicks Walker, Hydra

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The segment we play in is the performance-based media buying world, where the essential difference is that advertisers are paying for the results. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency.

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Interview with Adam Wicks Walter, Hydra

socalTECH

The segment we play in is the performance-based media buying world, where the essential difference is that advertisers are paying for the results. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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