Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2023

How an entrepreneur’s vision statement affected me… [Email readers, continue here…] Years ago, as a panelist at an entrepreneurial seminar, I watched as over fifty aspiring young entrepreneurs filed past a microphone, each tasked with making a thirty second pitch to the panelists of professional investors.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I first heard this in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago. Email readers continue here.] It made an impact and stuck with me through the years. Even if not the intent, there is an instant change in dynamic once this line has been crossed.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Email seemed to be working just fine before all this other crap came along. Rather, the guy who invites you to learn more about something you care about and finishes the discussion/seminar/webinar/call/meeting with a “you can buy it here.&# I may have figured out something about this whole craze though.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2012

Maybe it because there are plenty of tips, seminars, and books on the motivation side of the equation, starting with the basic Motivating Employees for Dummies , and so few resources on elements of demotivation. You may ask them to bring you up to date on what they’ve been emailing you, but you’ve been too busy to read.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. We are also building an audience from our Poogling Internet Safety Seminars, soon to be an online Webinar/video for broader reach. A great opportunity for more visible networking. Sometimes I make a blog entry. A negative customer acquisition cost!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Generalized email blasts and social media ads may be great for finding interest in your services, but these are not enough to close and maintain new clients. In this context, you might also offer free seminars of the latest trends in tax accounting, or reports on best practices that you sanction and practice in a given discipline.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

This means more people sign up for your email list when you have the pop up box than when you don’t. An email list is exactly how it sounds, a collection of people’s emails who have visited your site. That’s the sensation people have when they continuously see the email capture image. Have an email capture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2011

Maybe it because there are plenty of tips, seminars, and books on the motivation side of the equation, starting with the basic Motivating Employees for Dummies , and so few resources on elements of demotivation. You may ask them to bring you up to date on what they’ve been emailing you, but you’ve been too busy to read.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The process for all of these is networking (not email blasts or cold-calling investors). Start with the local Chamber of Commerce, industry associations, or investor seminars. Professionals will tell you that the sequence is friends and family first, angel investors second, and only then venture capital. Just attending doesn't work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2013

The process for all of these is networking (not email blasts or cold-calling investors). Start with the local Chamber of Commerce, industry associations, or investor seminars. Professionals will tell you that the sequence is friends and family first, angel investors second, and only then venture capital. Just attending doesn''t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The process for all of these is networking (not email blasts or cold-calling investors). Start with the local Chamber of Commerce, industry associations, or investor seminars. Professionals will tell you that the sequence is friends and family first, angel investors second, and only then venture capital. Just attending doesn't work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2010

The process for all of these is networking (not email blasts or cold-calling investors). Start with the local Chamber of Commerce, industry associations, or investor seminars. Professionals will tell you that the sequence is friends and family first, angel investors second, and only then venture capital. Just attending doesn't work.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies. How many seminars does Pipeline Fellowship have? My feedback to them is, they offered to connect with you and I encourage you to send them an email.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Once you’ve answered these questions go ahead and contact them in a short email. If these companies have email lists even better! CALL THEM, not a tweet, or facebook wall post, or email and especially not a text. Now study the event organizer. What are their interests? What have they written about? How can you relate to them?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Our business services group also provides seminars in financial literacy, business planning, dressing for success, surviving the summer business cycles, and other relevant subjects of interest to the business community. If you are interested in having your ecosystem featured, shoot an email to monica@engine.is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Don’t forget seminars and events. They match individual customer preferences, whether it be voice, email, texting, or social media, to close deals. To check your return on marketing investment, you need to define metrics and a formal process to evaluate progress and cost tradeoffs. Raise the conversion rate with effective follow-up.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

One day I get an email from Ms. In a couple of weeks we held our first seminar educating parents on how to keep their kids safe online. Instead, we did a seminar to bring awareness to the parents and provide a few tips (and software) to monitor or block inappropriate content and behavior. This seams harmless right?

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