Your customer’s voices are the thing you should be paying the closest attention to. Today. There are many ways to get your ear to the rail and listen to what they have to say: surveys, exit questionnaires, customer service emails, live chat, and phone are all channels that you can leverage.
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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Own Customers (We Did!)


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2089 days ago
Innovation and Small Business: 3 Historical Winners


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2096 days ago
There are dozens of examples of new ideas, inventions, and machines that launched a small business that grew and grew into business powerhouses. The world moves so fast today, that it is impossible to keep up with the thousands upon thousands of new ideas and inventions and equally impossible to pr
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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Kindergarten Teachers


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2110 days ago
Kindergarten teachers are tasked with one of the most important jobs in the world: caring for our children. The job requires a facility for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data and skills that rival any manager’s abilities leadership, mentoring, organization, and collaboration.
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Small Business and Startups: 8 Steps To a Successful Redesign


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2117 days ago
There comes a time when a business looks hard at its website and lets out a groan of dismay. Your website is out-dated, out-moded, and out-competed. Your own customers may have been telling you to get it together and, whether you are listening or not, it doesn’t diminish the truth that something mu
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Small business Congress-watch: Some Pending Bills (and Why They Matter)


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2124 days ago
There is legislation pending in Congress that has the potential to positively impact your business and mine. Some of these efforts gain a great deal of attention via the media, but most of them are somewhat obscure (unless you’re willing to dig a little) and will never even make it onto our radar.
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Small Business and Startup Tips: Analyzing Your Search Data


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2131 days ago
Tens of thousands of the world's best and most successful entrepreneurs, businesses, agencies and nonprofits rely on crowdSPRING for affordable and risk-free custom logo design, web design, a new company name or other writing and design services.
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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Artists


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2138 days ago
As with artists, creativity, hard work, and the ability to execute are not, in themselves, enough to guarantee success – sometimes the best of entrepreneurial ideas fail to rise to the top, just as many wonderful and talented painters will never succeed on their chosen path.
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Small Business and Startups: Management for the Joy Of It


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2145 days ago
Business owners and managers work hard every day to improve efficiency, acquire customers, increase margins, analyze results, craft strategy, execute tactics, and track growth. What we don’t always work so hard at is improving ourselves, supporting our team, and making our companies forces for good
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Lean Marketing: Basic Metrics You Should be Watching. Now.


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2152 days ago
Marketing is an analytical process. Setting goals comes first. Developing strategy is second. Third is the execution of the specific tactics to support the strategy. And fourth? Well fourth is measurement and data analysis. When it comes to measurement, many managers struggle with developing and t
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Small Business and Startups: Sustainability and Your Company


From http://blog.crowdspring.com 2159 days ago
Tens of thousands of the world's best and most successful entrepreneurs, businesses, agencies and nonprofits rely on crowdSPRING for affordable and risk-free custom logo design, web design, a new company name or other writing and design services.
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