Tag: startup
Why ‘Old-School’ Customer Service Will Never Be Replaced
Want to set yourself apart from your competition and keep your customers coming back? Answer the phone. You’ve heard the cliché that you must answer the door when opportunity knocks, yet despite often having great business concepts, many entrepreneurs fail to answer when opportunity calls. Yes, opportunity still uses the phone—and you should too. Old-school [...]
The Entrepreneurs Handbook: 52 Essential Resources for Startups
The thought of launching a Startup is incredibly intimidating with most failing to survive their first few years, it can often result in an emotionally draining, frustrating and demoralizing experience for everyone involved. Of course with high risk comes high reward, which is why entrepreneurs still ‘take the leap of faith’ despite the odds being [...]
4 Things I Didn’t Know About Investors Before I Took Their Money
So many of us are obsessed with get investors no one really talks about the real down side. So, you cashed the check, now what? Managing the relationship with your investors is an important skill that new entrepreneurs have to learn and sometimes the hard way. I really should title this blog post 1001 things [...]
Top 10 Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid
Getting a new business off the ground is never easy. Increase your chances of success by avoiding these common business plan mistakes. 1. Giving top-down financial projections Don’t base your entire business plan on capturing a certain percentage of the market. Your investors will think that you are being far too optimistic, and your chances [...]
5 Ways Entrepreneurs are Hurting Their Business and How to Fix Them
When you’re a young entrepreneur who’s just starting out on their early business adventures, there’s going to be a learning curve to the process whether you like it or not. We all need to learn what we still don’t know perfectly, and learning always carries mistakes with it. Heck, even people who’ve been running businesses [...]
From Concept to Sale: How a Video Launched Mailbox — and Helped Them Exit
Each year, a variety of tactics appear that promise instant success if included in your inbound marketing strategy. First, there was tagging, and then keyword placement, which was followed by infographics and long content. For a few years, some of these strategies worked well, but they weren’t designed with a changing economy in mind — [...]
Top 15 Biggest Perks of Entrepreneurship
QUESTION: WHAT IS THE BIGGEST PERK OF OWNING YOUR OWN BUSINESS? Question by: Ashley LIFESTYLE OF CHOICE “Some people value creative freedom above all else. Some value work/life balance. Still others have their eye on the big bucks. For me, success is the ability to be picky about the projects I take on while still making [...]
These SEO ‘Tricks’ Will Hurt Your Reputation
Online reputation management is critical in a time when more and more customers, employers, potential dates, and others will ‘Google’ a person or a business before engaging with them to any degree. People tend to want to understand the good and the bad of those with whom they are consorting, and negative commentary about a [...]
5 Things Every Customer Wants from Your Business
When you own a business, one of your primary duties as a business owner is to attract and retain customers. The only way to retain customers is to keep them happy. While you might think that your customers are only concerned with your prices, there are several other factors that your client base considers more [...]
Dont Be a Fad, Solve a Real Problem
One of the things in the web world that you will notice is the theme of the latest “technology trends”. In 2012, the hot trends were photo sharing applications like Instagram. Trends are very cool because the media is on your side, investors are willing to put in money and you can make a lot [...]
