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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Marty Zwilling.

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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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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

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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.

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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Marty Zwilling

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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

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In this age of millennials and social media, individual workers are more driven by the greater good, work-life balance, and peer culture, than by organizational pressures. Outsourcing and working from home needs coordination. In the early days of outsourcing, I was led to believe that it would reduce the need for local managers.

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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

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Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. The trend toward more remote work, flexible work hours, and outsourcing can eliminate productive work relationships and communication between functions.

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10 Disciplines Every Entrepreneur Needs To Practice

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsource services back to the customer. Pervasive access to the Internet and social media have allowed customers to take an active role in helping other customers, with customer support, requirements definition, and open source development. Your long-term survival and satisfaction depend on it. Marty Zwilling.