Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

Today, in this age of pervasive social media and two-way communication, the focus needs to get beyond demographics into personalities. He outlines six key steps in your journey from yesterday’s customer service to today’s required delivery of exceptional customer experiences: Define the whole customer experience versus service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Selling services has always been about relationships, but the challenges of building relationships with services clients have exploded. Thus services experiences and relationships tend to be based more and more on new media and technology. Companies need service strategies that increase spontaneity to enhance experiences.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Irvine-based content moderation software developer WebPurify says it has enhanced its tools with a new tool, which allows its users to automatically detect text in memes and other images in blogs, forums, social media apps, children's sites, in-game chats, and more. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

LIVE and the exclusive on-demand fuel delivery service of the LA Kings. The company says it offers up four types of unleaded fuel (87, 89, 91, 99) and diesel, and that its prices are "competitive to the gas stations in the area." READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Platform as a Service (PaaS). Business Process as a Service (BPaaS). Social Media. Gamification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With the appearance of do-it-yourself services on the Internet, entrepreneur curriculums at every university, and a wealth of new books on the subject, the need for expensive consultants and business advisors has also been mitigated. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Isn’t it time that you joined the movement?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of online marketing services for small and medium sized businesses, said today that it has launched a new product called ReachCast. Pricing on the new offering was not disclosed. The firm said the product is a result of its acquisition of SMB:Live back in February. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Selling services has always been about relationships, but the challenges of building relationships with services clients have exploded. Thus services experiences and relationships tend to be based more and more on new media and technology. Companies need service strategies that increase spontaneity to enhance experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Today, in this age of pervasive social media and two-way communication, the focus needs to get beyond demographics into personalities. He outlines six key steps in your journey from yesterday’s customer service to today’s required delivery of exceptional customer experiences: Define the whole customer experience versus service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If you get to know your customers well enough, you can provide solutions that make selling and service the same thing. It’s a win-win deal that keeps customers coming back, helps your company, and incents customers to bring in their friends through word-of-mouth and social media. Great communication is the best leadership.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

TechZulu and Schmoozd have joined forces to bring you Startup Demo during Social Media Week. We are excited to be part of Social Media Week and helping awesome startups receive their much deserved exposure. Price: FREE. About Social Media Week. When: Wednesday, Sept 22 nd , 2010 - 5:00 p.m.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. Great startups manage to continually improve the relationship through outstanding follow-on support and service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2020

But customers today are fickle, instantly aware of every new alternative, due to the Internet and social media, and not afraid to change. Today’s customers demand to be more than satisfied with your price to be loyal. Focus on innovation in the design of your delivery and service, as well as your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

Unfortunately, in my role as business advisor , I don’t see the same response to more common weak signals , like the move to phone texting instead of voice, or politics invading social media. When sales fall off, you need to dig deep for the “why,” rather than just assuming the price needs to go down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

I have to point out that the rest of the world looks for you online before visiting your business, finds talk about you on Yelp and social media sites, and what they see can make or break your business. Today your reputation online is more important than your price, service, or location. Either one can kill the other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

All too often I talk to startups which still don’t have a social media plan even though most of their customers now use social media as a key part of their buying decision. If you have had to pivot from the consumer market to enterprise customers, that requires new pricing models and new sales channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, in my discussions with business owners, some have already used inflation positives to update their inventory values, take advantage of reduced mortgage rates, or simply making the price increases that they have long needed. While they are looking, you can benefit with new services or an expanded product line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers. One bad customer experience will kill not only one customer, but many future ones, who hear the message via social media and friends. The world has changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

Ultimately, the mobile clinics serve as a marketing strategy for Kindbody’s core service: egg freezing. Kindbody charges patients $6,000 per egg-freezing cycle, a price that doesn’t include the cost of necessary medications but is still significantly less than market averages. “We are women designing for women. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Most are still confused about the right priority. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Even if the goods and services are changing hands as gifts, or the revenue motive exists only to make services sustainable, the economic value is evident. One consequence of the new sharing business model is that goods become services. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Most are still confused about the right priority. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Organization Invest Customer Custom 173

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Torrance-based LiveOffice , a provider of email archiving services, announced today that the firm is releasing a new product specifically aimed at archiving social media sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based software-as-a-service developer CrownPeak has expanded the breadth of its offerings, saying this morning that it has launched a set of content management and marketing tools. Pricing on the new offering was not released. The firm said its new tools integrate directly into its CMS interface.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2019

Fullscreen said that its service will include including strategy, content development, optimization, and reporting for brands to help them expand their presence on LinkedIn. Pricing on the new service was not announced. According to Fullscreen, the practice will help help brands successfully increase their LinkedIn presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2020

If you get to know your customers well enough, you can provide solutions that make selling and service the same thing. It’s a win-win deal that keeps customers coming back, helps your company, and incents customers to bring in their friends through word-of-mouth and social media. Great communication is the best leadership.

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