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Business Consultants Need to Look For a Real Job
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4299 days ago
Made Hot by: Copysugar on December 13, 2012 7:27 pm
Let’s face it, consultants have a bad image. Businesses want experienced people who get their hands dirty, rather than experts who give presentations, make recommendations, and disappear. Even consultants don’t like their job, since they don’t often get to see results, and too much of their time is
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10 Keys to Successful Entrepreneur Relationships
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4300 days ago
Just because you are an entrepreneur, or work in a startup, you can’t ignore the rules of building and maintaining relationships. Many despise these experiences in corporate environments, and leave for a startup, only to find that they have to be able to navigate a similar minefield there of workpl
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10 Perspective Checks on Your Startup Aspirations
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4301 days ago
Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. For any entrepreneur, even the best business opportunities, if entered for the wrong reasons, will likely fail. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgiv
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Founders Must Keep Their Startup Culture Positive
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4302 days ago
Made Hot by: danieljames123 on December 11, 2012 1:32 pm
Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so
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5 Suggestions to Escape Linear Startup Thinking
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4303 days ago
Made Hot by: Webdev1 on December 11, 2012 12:12 pm
It’s time for more entrepreneurs to reset their focus, and shift their thinking to completely different ways of doing things. Everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with improved usability, one more wind-farm
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10 Key Entrepreneur Success Drivers May Surprise You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4304 days ago
Made Hot by: Webdev1 on December 12, 2012 2:44 pm
We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted milli
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Build Social Media Into the Customer Experience
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4305 days ago
As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring pur
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7 Success Principles From the Startup War Zone
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4306 days ago
When you have been on the startup firing line, you quickly learn that any insight from experts and entrepreneurs who have been there before you can make the difference between failure and success. Yet, many new entrepreneurs brazenly assume they are bulletproof, and march blindly into the fray. The
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Smart Startups Never Let Negatives Bury Positives
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4307 days ago
Made Hot by: Llewellyn on December 8, 2012 4:15 am
Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. It’s more than providing recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of m
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10 Course Corrections Every Startup Should Memorize
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4308 days ago
The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. The vision part is fine, but successful entrepreneurs have found that the extreme uncertainty of a new product or service usually requ
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