Posts Tagged ‘Product Development’
Startups on Track in Development of Drone Technology
When Amazon announced plans to potentially use drones for delivery services in the near future, the public responded with a mixture of disbelief, excitement and paranoia. However, the robotics industry had a reason to rejoice.
Read More Taking Action: From MVP to Profitable Small Business in One Month
How long did you wait to start your business? A week… a month… a year? Almost everyone I know has one major regret when it comes to their business: that they didn’t start sooner.
Read More The 3-Step Dance: Creating a Great Company
Creating a great company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer. I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.
Read More 80 Percent of Customer Service: Just Being Nice
Woody Allen once said, “80 percent of success is just showing up.” To that I would add, “80 percent of customer service is just being nice.”
Read More Improve Sales by Taking Away Their Freedom
Common sense says increased variety and more freedom of choice will make people happier. But studies show it does the exact opposite. It actually makes them unhappy.
Read More In Search of the Perfect Fish Oil
When Joar Opheim was growing up in northern Norway, he competed in gymnastics, a sport known for its punishing training regimens. What Opheim didn’t imagine at the time was that, years later, he would move to the U.S. and build a thriving business producing his own high-quality fish oil.
Read More Start(up) After Answering These 3 Questions on Risk
Embracing risk is important; it’s part of being an entrepreneur. However, a fundamental difference exists between taking calculated risks and being reckless altogether.
Read More Just Good Enough: The Minimum Viable Sales/Marketing Strategy
For years, I’ve been a proponent of “Just Good Enough” as a sales or marketing strategy. Perhaps in today’s context, Just Good Enough might be called The Minimum Viable Sales/Marketing Strategy.
Read More How to Market with Your Prices
Pricing strategies will help your small businesses make more money. Nothing affects your profits more than the price you charge for your products. But in reality, pricing can be a challenging part of an overall marketing strategy
Read More Value Proposition: Differentiate Your Product
Before you can begin writing a value proposition, you must determine what exactly sets you apart from your competition. This is important, as many of your competitors will have the same or a similar customer base, and offer very similar products.
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