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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. Marty Zwilling

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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5 Key Growth Initiatives In This Inflationary Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Most business professionals I know have been conditioned to think of inflation as highly negative, driving up their costs, and reducing customer buying. 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

Startup Professionals Musings

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 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. Outsourcing and working from home needs coordination. Individual team members all dream of being unleashed.

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