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04/02/2023

A lot of operate using decreased prices to stay competitive, and although this can work for larger organizations, it is ineffective if you only have a small-sized organization.

A reduction in prices for smaller businesses can do a lot more harm than good and, as such, you should opt to increase prices to increase # profit.

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When you run your own business, you are naturally always going to be curious about the most effective ways you can increase profit.

10/17/2018

Learning is a way of life for . New and old businesses make mistakes and some of those mistake may lead to failure, but successful entrepreneurs manage mistakes better.

Successful entrepreneurs recognize that learning events help them reshape the opportunity so that it better meets their customer needs.

10/16/2018

In most cases, quitting your job to start a new is not a wise plan, but most often it is extremely difficult to launch a business when you are spending a lot of time at work

If you can't quit your job to start a new , you can still find time to launch it if you get creative. For example, if you set aside just one hour every week to work on your business, at the end of the year you will have devoted fifty-two hours to getting it off the ground.

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10/16/2018

According to research from and the Business Review, only 37% of businesses use customer data to predict or anticipate customer needs.

Read about the 3 AI trends that sales can’t ignore. Like any new technology, AI is disruptive; it can and will enable new discoveries and opportunities. This post details how sales organizations can take a closer look at AI to remain competitive.

08/30/2018

For too many , "BRAND" is just an EXTERNAL message and, internally, merely a poster on the wall. The world's best companies actual LIVE their brand everyday in everything they do.

Once you have been labeled by the market, it is very HARD to stray too far from it. A brand can really only ACHIEVE it's goal when it's consistently applied by EVERYONE at your company, in everything they do.

08/30/2018

Who is your IDEAL target market for your product or service? Within that target market, who are you best prospects?

Too many take a BROAD approach to marketing and claim that "EVERYONE" in their target market can use their product or service. This is very ineffective.

Identifying your FAST to CLOSE customers in your target market is critical to achieving momentum in growing your sales.

08/30/2018

Most new are so busy monitoring the overwhelming number of moving parts involved in a growing company and often forget that great CUSTOMER SERVICE keeps customers happy and cash flowing.

CUSTOMERS stop buying mostly due to POOR service, and founders need to accept that they don't have all the answers. CEOs need to hire customer-centric staff, and implement systems to ensure customer feedback is filtered; which provides the ability to identify customer problems before they occur.

08/22/2018

Most start-ups develop their products before getting FEEDBACK from potential buyers. This is a mistake, according to Eric Ries's "Lean Start-Up" philosophy: "Get in FRONT of PROSPECTS from day one."

You'll learn more from talking to five CUSTOMERS than you will from hours of market research on a computer. The goal should be to gauge customer REACTION to the general concept you plan to build.

Don't make ANYTHING until you sell it. Get people really INTERESTED in buying it before you invest too much time and effort.

08/22/2018

Companies will often try to STRETCH their resources to finance too many projects at once because the prospect of four or five successes instead of one or two is so ATTRACTIVE.

But NEW products generally involve considerable front-end investment and lots of management attention. So in a world where money, people, and programs are necessarily limited, this usually means that NONE of the projects get enough sustained support and effort to be guaranteed SUCCESS.

The only way around it is to be DISCIPLINED enough to say "next year" to most of the good ideas available.

08/22/2018

Even the BEST concepts or tend to develop incrementally. They RARELY ever work the first time out or unfold just as they were planned.

In fact, the original concept or its ex*****on usually gets CHANGED considerably before it's ready to be implemented broadly. Pizza Hut's pan pizza, for instance, went through four or five iterations.

So even after you spot a promising SEGMENT and develop a product to serve it, you've usually still got at least one major hurdle to jump before you can capitalize on your new IDEA.