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8 Keys To Being A First Responder To Market Changes

Startup Professionals Musings

When sales fall off, you need to dig deep for the “why,” rather than just assuming the price needs to go down. Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. As times change, you may need new metrics, such as total experience, web site hits, and social media complaints.

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How Modern Companies Have Redefined Customer Support

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience.

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Interview with Tara Weingarten, VroomGirls

socalTECH

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. But, it turns out, there are not any automotive sites specifically geared towards women.

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10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

Startup Professionals Musings

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

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Kevin Federline Search Engine

SoCal CTO

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. It’s awesome. The deals we quickly went through are: 1. Foursquare.

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