In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often think of the old joke, “In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, the chicken is very involved, but the pig is committed.” Some business owners claim to be committed, but seem quick to look to someone else to make the hard decisions, or some external factor to
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Are You Involved With Business, Or Fully Committed?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2583 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on September 11, 2017 11:14 am
7 Ways To Be The New Venture Leader Investors Seek
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2585 days ago
Made Hot by: centrifugePR on September 9, 2017 10:46 am
In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” A great jockey is a great role mo
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6 Symptoms Of A Dysfunction That Can Kill Your Dream
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2587 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on September 8, 2017 1:46 am
Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “founder’s syndrome.” A few years ago I was int
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Startup Marketing Should Skip Traditional Advertising
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2588 days ago
Made Hot by: profmarketing on September 6, 2017 1:12 pm
The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. But startups need t
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Can Your Business Survive The Traditional Life Cycle?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2589 days ago
Made Hot by: blogexpert on September 5, 2017 3:25 am
Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet,
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5 Reasons Every Smart Business Owner Seeks A Mentor
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2594 days ago
Made Hot by: bizyolk on September 1, 2017 12:46 am
Advice is cheap. As a new business owner, you don’t have to take any advice you hear, but failing to listen and learn from someone’s prior experience can cost you a fortune. As a long-time mentor and business advisor, I find it ironic that many look only to friends for advice. They forget that frie
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8 Principles For Keeping Customers With You For Life
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2595 days ago
Made Hot by: DigiTechBlog on August 30, 2017 8:30 am
Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. The result, according to an often-quoted Gallup survey, is 70 percent
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10 Principles For Surviving New Business Challenges
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2596 days ago
As the economy flourishes after some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional employment. I applaud this trend, but caution all of you thinking this direction to approach entrepreneurship with your eyes wide open. It is not f
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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2597 days ago
Made Hot by: sundaydriver on August 28, 2017 10:03 am
In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop, have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. This movement, coupled with free websites a
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8 Keys To Raising Your Level Of Employee Engagement
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 2599 days ago
Made Hot by: SimplySmallBiz on August 26, 2017 12:02 pm
As a business advisor, one of the most disheartening things I see in business today is a serious lack of engagement at all levels, consistent with Gallup’s most recent global engagement survey, finding only 13 percent of workers fully engaged in their job. I see people walking around every day like
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