How to Collect Customer Feedback
What's the best way to collect customer feedback on new products or services? A: Be the Customer The best way to get firsthand customer feedback is to step into the shoes of the customer. Even if you're selling a product of which you're not typically a user (e.g., a...
14 Ways to Boost Your Brand and Help Charity
Do you have tips for aligning my business with a charitable cause in a way that helps grow my personal brand? 1. Join Forces for an Event Pinpoint nonprofits in your industry and collaborate on a fundraiser or other event. Assuming your areas of interest overlap,...
Want to Start a Business With Little Money and Effort?
What’s the easiest, least expensive online business to start now? 1. Service-Based Businesses Save Money When you don’t have to worry about product development, manufacturing, shipping, etc., it’s easy to keep overhead costs low. Consider coaching or consulting in...
Work With Family? 14 Tips for Success (and Sanity)
1. Keep Up the Clarity Have clear legal agreements in place from day one. Beyond the good practice of securing contracts, you'll have an impartial, non-family member reference point--should conflicts arise. --Kelly Azevedo, She's Got Systems 2. Hire Slowly, Fire...
15 Must Ask Interview Questions for Your First Few Startup Hires
Q. What’s one must-ask interview question for your first few startup hires? A. Will You Make Copies? 350-001 exam At startups, everyone needs to pitch in, including doing the occasional administrative task. By asking prospective hires if they will make copies, you can...
15 Unique and Inexpensive Ideas to Promote Your First Product
Q. What are some unique and inexpensive ideas for getting more exposure for your first product? A. Go on Tour…a Blog Tour Cisco 642-617 While some bloggers would jump at the chance to test out and review your product, others are just inundated, and don’t have 70-454...
How to Know if Your New Hires Have Growth Potential
What one question should startup leaders ask early-stage hires to make sure there’s potential for growth? No. 1: Can You Adapt? From Bhavin Parikh of Magoosh Ask for examples in which potential hires completed tasks of projects that were outside their comfort area or...
Team Collaboration: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Teamwork is drilled into our heads from an early age. From joining Little League to completing school projects, we’re encouraged to get along with others. (Heck, our report cards even noted how well we got along with classmates!) As adults, we’re still led to believe...
10 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Delegate Tech-Related Tasks
Naturally, entrepreneurs have an innate urge to want to tackle every part of every project themselves, but by trying to do so they can get tied up in tasks that limit their productivity and creativity. Especially when it comes to technical matters, outsourcing some of...
3 Tips for Leading Your Company From a Remote Tropical Paradise
We’ve all had days where we’ve walked out of the office vowing, “I’ll never set foot in there again!” Yet despite all our bluster, we come back the next day and muddle through our work — paychecks don’t grow on trees. But how would life be different if you never did...
Want A Job At The Next Facebook? 15 Ways To Get Hired By A Startup
Many people dream of working at the next Facebook or Google, a startup that is destined to be the next big thing. But what does it really take to get hired by a hot startup? Here are 15 tips from leading entrepreneurs: Demonstrate How You Pivot Entrepreneurs like to...
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You’re holding a product at that brick-and-mortar store, debating if now is the time for you to spend money on something you’ve been wanting — or needing — for some time now. As you weigh out the pros and cons silently to yourself, an inevitable deterrent appears out...