All the experts these days are talking about the increasing need for customer focus and maximizing sales. Typically entrepreneurs and even professional sales people think this means more emphasis on the customer selling process, when in fact it means spending more time understanding the customer bu
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Learn What Customer Focus Really Means in Sales
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4845 days ago
Enterprising Culture: How A Rural Homestay Model Makes Great Business Sense
Posted by ivanpw under StartupsFrom http://www.noobpreneur.com 4845 days ago
Taking off from my last post, here is a feature on a social enterprise with a difference. Culture Aangan, a venture launched with the objective of creating tourism infrastructure in Sindhudurg, India.
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Startups Get No Help From an Investment Bank
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4846 days ago
The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to busin
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How a Sentiment Analysis Startup Profits By Checking Emotion in E-mail
Posted by sherisaid under StartupsFrom http://mashable.com 4846 days ago
Our text-based communication often carries emotional undertones that can often undermine our true intentions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in e-mail.
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Ten Golden Insights From Successful Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4847 days ago
Entrepreneurs are a notoriously stubborn (some say confident) group of people, so I see many of them making the same mistakes that predecessors have made. Thus I’m convinced that it’s useful for all of you to step back from time to time, and listen to some sage advice from people who have been ther
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How Many Hats Does it Take to Design, Develop and Deploy a Web-based App?
Posted by jjriv under StartupsFrom http://www.myintervals.com 4848 days ago
In short, it’s going to take more than you think; a lot more thank you think. It is often said that people working for small companies — especially the owners — are required to wear a lot of different hats. And the metaphor is almost always spot on.
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Five Common Mistakes in Jumping the Corporate Ship
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4848 days ago
Many people, especially those who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder, dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. But every job move is fraught with risk, and the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. This is a big jump, especially in a do
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Laura Petrolino - Founder of Flying Pig Communications
Posted by lkpetrolino under StartupsFrom http://ideamensch.com 4848 days ago
Laura Petrolino is the Founder and Managing Director of Flying Pig Communications, a communications and business consulting firm which focuses on the needs of startups, small business and non-profits. She also serves as Chief Communications Officer at Ignite Venture Partners, which brings together
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The Launch of SolopreneurLifeAds.com
Posted by lkpetrolino under StartupsFrom http://www.365daysofstartups.com 4849 days ago
On January 11 I launched SolopreneurLifeAds.com, a marketplace where solopreneurs stand as equals in business transactions—whether we are buyers or sellers. I want to share some of the thinking that was behind its formation, so you can learn from what I might have done right and done wrong!
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Great Entrepreneurs Master Reflective Thinking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4849 days ago
Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. That creates a huge gap between data and meaning, and makes quick decisions and action ever more difficult. We all need to take a little more tim
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