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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. At minimum, that requires a modern website, and visibility on relevant social media sites, likely including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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8 Ways To Stay Competitive In Today’s Technical World

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach works best with business associates that know you, or peers that you meet at industry conferences, or technical gurus that have no business connections to the candidate. Outsourcing to expert freelancers or business partners is often a better solution for startups than managing everyone into the inside team.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers won’t pay to see your new employees learning on the job, and outsourcing the real work to a cheap labor source is a recipe for disaster. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Practice being a good communicator.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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Services for services sake - The type of business that is generally shunned in Silicon Valley is the “pure services&# business like consulting, system integration, value-added resellers (VARs), customer support businesses, outsourcing companies, etc. Yet you can run a conference and mint money.

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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

Startup Professionals Musings

Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions. You must regularly host online meetings, as well as external networking and team-building exercises.