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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources. In this age of the gig-economy, you can more quickly hire and manage freelancers, contract workers, and contract operations. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s always tempting to think that more product variations will satisfy more customers and lead to new sales. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house.

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer. Ask for is code samples.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force. Fallacy: Third-party, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) representatives succeed once the sales process is defined, proven and documented. Public relations at a startup is a sales process.

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Making The Enterprise Cloud Real: Unitas Global's Cloud Vision

socalTECH

What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal. Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency. The sale approach is actually very different in those markets. Grant Kirkwood: No, not at all.