In my role as an advisor to small businesses, I still find that many of you still claim to have a negligible online presence, and don’t feel it necessary to monitor your reputation there. I have to point out that the rest of the world looks for you online before visiting your business, finds talk a
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Keys For Responding To A Reputation Crisis Online
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1187 days ago
Made Hot by: centrifugePR on July 11, 2021 8:48 am
9 Success Inhibitors To Overcome For Rapid Growth
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1188 days ago
A common complaint I hear from my startup clients and many entrepreneurs is that rapid growth is more difficult than ever anticipated. The assumption usually is that more money is needed for marketing, or another round of new development is needed on the product. Yet I find in digging deeper, the c
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Ways Creative Startups Can Sustain The Environment
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1189 days ago
As I have said many times, the cost of entry for an aspiring entrepreneur has never been lower, and the total wealth of opportunities has never been larger. Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Keys To Asking The Right Questions To Be A Leader
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1191 days ago
Made Hot by: BizWise on July 7, 2021 9:15 am
Every entrepreneur has blind spots which limit their effectiveness and success, but due to ego, over-confidence, or deferential subordinates, many live totally in the dark. Some are smart and humble enough to assume that they don’t know what they don’t know, but lack an effective process for shinin
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Startup Professionals Musings: 8 Personal Attributes Mitigate Startup Funding Risks
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1192 days ago
Made Hot by: sophia2 on July 9, 2021 11:17 am
In the eyes of investors like me, to be an entrepreneur, it’s not enough to create an innovative solution – you need to convince me that you can build a profitable business. Investors expect a great return for their risk, so they look for people who can look beyond the technology and their own pass
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10 Elements of a Coaching Culture and Why You Need It
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1193 days ago
Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team. I often hear the excuse that coaching takes more time than simply diving in and doing the job for the other person, but is that really true? In fact, studies have shown that the long-term
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Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1194 days ago
Made Hot by: fundpr on July 3, 2021 6:51 am
By definition, all of you entrepreneurs are leaders, by taking the initiative to start a new company. Yet I have learned over the years as a startup advisor that all business leaders are not the same. Some are great product leaders and innovative technologists, others are leaders in creating new bu
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9 Ways to Use Pull Marketing When Push Doesn’t Work
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://www.linkedin.com 1195 days ago
More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. This is called inbound marketing, where customers are pulled to you, rather than feeling accosted at e
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Startup Professionals Musings: 6 New Venture Realities To Target Your Funding Effort
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1196 days ago
Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by
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Startup Professionals Musings: 9 Key Issues That Can Support Your Breakthrough Ideas
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom https://blog.startupprofessionals.com 1197 days ago
Made Hot by: luvhealthcare on June 30, 2021 9:59 am
The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for s
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