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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

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This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

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This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

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Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions.

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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

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Good managers improve focus and productivity through effective communication and coordinating disparate activities. In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures.

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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

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I see it as an opportunity to find new ways to attract customers , make long-needed changes to improve productivity, and lower your own costs of doing business. I recommend using digital channels, including email and social media, personalized, if possible, with promotions. Outsource functions outside your core competency.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

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I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. At minimum, that requires a modern website, and visibility on relevant social media sites, likely including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

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The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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