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10 Metrics To Drive Your Annual Business Review

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Customer loyalty and retention.

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10 Key Metrics To Take a Startup to the Next Level

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Customer loyalty and retention.

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Why You Need Tools And Analytics For Employee Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our lifetime customer value and how can we drive that up?

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5 Keys To An Unbeatable Solution For Your New Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Major innovation, with major payback, requires real change, addresses a major pain point, and hits a large customer segment who can pay. Even in this era of a pervasive Internet, your customers won’t find even the best new solutions by default. For example, smart entrepreneurs look for recognizable patterns in disconnected domains.

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10 Stumbling Blocks To Innovative Business Thinking

Startup Professionals Musings

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Even good decisions today will require adjustments as the environment or customers change.

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7 Keys To An Engaging Framework For Social Media Mktg

Startup Professionals Musings

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.