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Learn how to generate your first sale and grow your startup’s revenue.
One Quick Website Fix to Gain More Leads
To gain more leads, you’ll need your website visitors to take a specific action. The problem is that many of them don’t want to sign up, fill in your contact form or pay now. This...
3 Tips for Building a Successful Subscription-Based Business
The way consumers buy goods and services is changing. Have a look at your bank statement over the last several months, and I’ll bet there are more than a few recurring charges for Netflix, Amazon...
3 Challenges Every Entrepreneur Must Face and How to Overcome Them
The circumstances of starting a business vary greatly, depending on the business model. In my own entrepreneurial journey, I started out as a solopreneur with just my skills and my laptop. No matter how you...
The Best Investments to Improve Your Sales Team Strategy
Creating and maintaining a thriving business depends on the success of sales performance. Essentially, the effectiveness of your sales team at generating revenue is directly related to the success of your business. Keeping your sales...
For a Better Pricing Strategy, Think Like Goldilocks
Being more profitable is the result of a successful campaign to cut costs and to pump up sales. But the real profit comes about through a pricing strategy that works. The most popular pricing strategy...
How to Use Earned Media Coverage to Drive Your Startup’s Sales
Do you believe PR doesn’t work? If so, you might be telling the wrong kinds of stories in the media. You might also be expecting your press coverage to do all the heavy lifting for...
How to Leverage Customer Insights to Drive New Customer Acquisition Strategy
At its core, leveraging customer insights lets your business look into the hearts and minds of current and potential buyers. Tapping into customer insights offers a way to take the pulse of your target audience,...
User Experience and Funnel Drop-Offs: What You Should Know
Websites and online businesses are always trying to attract and retain users. Knowing how to improve customer experience and prevent funnel drop-offs is key to success online. Sales funnel drop-offs refer to the moment during...
3 Steps to Pivot Your Business for the Long-Term During and After COVID-19
We’re past the initial pivot stories involving the pandemic, in which vodka makers turned to developing hand sanitizer, and clothing companies began producing face masks on the side. These were, of course, smart and applaudable...
4 Reasons Budding Online Businesses Should Start Multichannel Selling
You deal with plenty of challenges as an e-commerce business owner. But, there’s likely one big challenge that tops your list: making sales. You want to get your products into the hands of as many...
How to Use AI to Successfully Build and Scale Your Retail Business
Starting a business is no easy task. The commitment and time sacrifice are significant, and the expenditure of capital combined with the stress of managing numerous tasks can be overwhelming. Growing your business can be...
How to Create Consistency in Your Customer Service
Building strong relationships with your customers is one of the most crucial aspects of starting and running a successful business. Without a clear understanding of who your customers are, what they’re looking for, and how...
10 Ways to Boost Your Startup’s Customer Acquisition
Many startups struggle with finding and retaining customers. Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. Once you’ve implemented the basics to...
What is Social Audio and How Can it Boost Your Business?
We’re entering a new golden age — one of social audio. Talking and tuning into discussions on social audio has become the equivalent of posting on your Instagram and LinkedIn feeds. Clubhouse couldn’t have come...
4 Tips on How to Identify and Attract Your Ideal Customer
One of the keys to successfully scaling a business is being able to find and identify your ideal customer. You might already have some insight into who this customer is through your business plan. A...
How Barcodes Show Your Product is Retail Ready
In the age of the smartphone, consumers carry a computer and virtual shopping cart in their pockets at all times. Never before has there been such an opportunity for retailers to connect artisans, specialty foods...
Every Business Should Offer Physical Products. Here’s Why
In an effort to increase revenue and balance cash flow, many service businesses are now attempting to mix products with their services. Customers for services ranging from personal trainers to web designers are big on...
7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Taking the Leap into Entrepreneurship
The growth of social media, the internet and the freelance economy has created a wave of excitement around entrepreneurship. More people are becoming entrepreneurs due to the unpredictable job market and the fact that technology...
Conscious Consumerism: How to Build a Business with Ethics (and Why it Matters)
If you’re building a new business to last, it is extremely important that you focus on your company’s ethics from the very beginning. Why is it so important for entrepreneurs to focus on company ethics...
21 Ways to Grow Your New Business Online
If you’re not growing your business online in the current climate, you will likely leave a lot of money on the table. As 2021 begins, we’re witnessing a fast-changing landscape. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...